socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Curtail , a new cybersecurity startup which recently landed $3.25M in funding, said this morning that it has named two VPs. According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company.

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Funding Chief Technology Officer Santa Barbara Seed Funding 133

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. How did you end up starting the company? What kind of data are you gathering?

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Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. You may end up hiring these people eventually and you'll know more about them when you do. The startup founder is definitely not ready to hire a CTO. Far from it. They need to conserve cash.

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CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach Develop 205

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy.

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Incubator Startup Help Resource 98

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Local Market Launch , a new startup founded by former ValueClick founder Brian Coryat, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding round. in funding, including an earlier seed funding. Coryat has also been an angel investor in recent years in local startups.

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Search Engine Optimization Marketing Santa Barbara Seed Funding 178

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Crowdfunder , an online crowd funding site headed by Chance Barnett, has raised $400,000 in seed funding, according to reports today.

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Sites Seed Funding Web Los Angeles 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Series-seed round.

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Startup Funding Seed Funding Incubator 92

socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the Amplify startup which is developing app management, single sign-on, and other cloud-based app tools, said Tuesday that it has linked up with two companies in partnerships. The firm announced its seed funding in April. Financial details of the deals were not annoucned. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Seed Funding Venture Capital Web 147

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M. READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Content Web 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy.

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Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company? Can you talk about how your company is funded?

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CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups. About that time the bubble burst, causing more than 80% of them to disappear.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Startup Seed Funding 86

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2012

The firm, headed by Josh Payne, develops a way for web publishers to integrate e-commerce into their websites. The firm, headed by Josh Payne, develops a way for web publishers to integrate e-commerce into their websites. READ MORE>>.

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Draper Seed Funding Commerce Software Development 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The company--one of the companies in the LaunchpadLA effort--is the second startup for Schneider and Kervin, who founded StarBrand Media, a celebrity shopping startup acquired by Sugar Inc.

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Sites Mahalo Santa Monica Seed Funding 168

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups. Startup Accelerators and Incubators.”

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. VC is a long-term business Some businesses are overnight successes but few of them really move immediately up and to the right. We have invested in every round and as a result our ownership has actually gone up over time.

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based ShareSquare , a new startup focused on the QR Code creation area, has launched its services this week, focusing on helping musicians and entertainers create QR codes. QR codes are three dimensional barcodes which can be recognized by mobile phones to connect users with web sites and other information.

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Seed Funding Entertainment Los Angeles Web 154

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The irony: a sad state that even with the huge number of social network applications we have at our disposal, we’re oftentimes lost, unable to keep up, or still lose touch so easily. Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. See Reminder screenshot].

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Web Social Network Email Networking 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups.

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Entrepreneur Startup Seed Funding Incubator 101

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

If things do fail harder and faster than before, the question is how quickly young startups and crypto communities can adjust to shifting fortunes. Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. follow the money. the week in web3.

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Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. It looks like that round will be oversubscribed, so we may up that number. Winston, nice speaking with you again.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

But like a Darwinian experiment, the extent to which these gifts are utilized remains entirely up to each individual entrepreneur. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Setting up for Eric Garcetti.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as shared facilities and space. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups. A successful startup is more about the right people than the right amount of money.

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry.

Startup 70

Startup Web Development Design Education 70

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. We caught up with Erik to hear more about MuckerLab, and its efforts to grow the Los Angeles technology ecosystem. Erik, thanks for the time.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

He started his career as a lawyer (he even clerked for a supreme court justice!) Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. I’ve already started the business modeling. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). Anyway, the starting point for this blog entry is a cartoon I remember reading in the New Yorker.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps.

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Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Though based on our Web searches, those ads don’t necessarily represent what we would like to buy. Retailers are not only wasting so much money targeting us with bad data, consumers get frustrated,” says Katy Aucoin, founder and CEO of Dearduck, a Houston e-commerce data startup.

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Commerce Social Media Google Web 72

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). And a great product starts with the founder. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

But like a Darwinian experiment, the extent to which these gifts are utilized remains entirely up to each individual entrepreneur. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Setting up for Eric Garcetti.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40