Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

For those in the know, Jarl has been a savvy angel investor and a mentor to many young tech founders (and a few of us VCs as well). I’m 10% sorry to see Jarl spend less time in Los Angeles. Breakfasts and drinks with Jarl have truly been a highlight of my seven years of living here.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. How do you meet them?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

And frankly one of the skills of an entrepreneur is figuring out how to get access to people that they don’t know and one of the ways that potential investors (like it or not) can judge one part of your skills is in seeing how you use ingenuity to gain access. The event last night in Los Angeles was great.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. They created a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly €190,000 from 9,000 supporters.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 15, 2015

There was an article recently in VentureBeat about how much control the startup CEO founder has over his/her board of directors. Unfortunately, this actually isn’t true in most cases, especially for first time founders, for many reasons. Founder/CEO. at least one Co-Founder. Typical Pre-Funded Board.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Long-overlooked laws are available to lower the after-tax risk, and make profits potentially tax-free for angel investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 14, 2012

There was an article recently in VentureBeat about how much control the startup CEO founder has over his/her board of directors. Unfortunately, this actually isn’t true in most cases, especially for first time founders, for many reasons. Founder/CEO. at least one Co-Founder. Typical Pre-Funded Board.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This week's release of The Social Network, an interpretation of the rise of Facebook, and it's founder Mark Zuckerberg, is another corridor between these two worlds. Previously he worked in the offices of Scott Rudin in New York and Summit Entertainment in Los Angeles. Only the Few Matter. Power players count.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. 1 way to recruit talent. Dont stop there, though.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Background Reading: Should Non-SV Founders use SAFEs in Seed Rounds? Angels” A recurring theme of this blog is that the advice and strategy you take for fundraising needs to be right-sized and contextualized for where you are located. Purely from the perspective of founders, it is a fantastic deal. See “ Angel Investors v.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Whether you have a full-time job or are a co-founder in a current startup, Startup Weekend Dallas 3 will be a great way to engage with the local startup scene. I’ll give a presentation on a few general aspects of startup law along with some tips of how to deal with the Dallas angel investor scene.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Both companies were in Los Angeles. Nate followed through on his views by investing in LA accelerator Science , run by the venerable Mike Jones , who is a former founder (UserPlane, sold to AOL), tech exec (at AOL and later at MySpace) and one of LA’s most prolific (and well liked) angels. Not bad, hey?

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

The Los Angeles-based market research firm estimates that growth rate to hit nearly12 percent annually over the next five years. One inhibiting factor is Atlanta’s community of angel investors and venture capital firms, many of whom have little experience with B2C startups. Dragon Army launches.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 7, 2012

Click here to add an angel. Jason Calacanis (Los Angeles). Matt Coffin (Los Angeles). Paige Craig (Los Angeles). Clark Landry (Los Angeles). Beau Laskey (Los Angeles). Peter Lee (Los Angeles). Thomas McInerney (Los Angeles & San Francisco).

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Heather: Now that Tom is living in Los Angeles, it would be a real favor to my friend if you would drag him along to some events there so he. Thanks for the official welcome – i’m stuck in town this weekend but could go next wkend if ur still painting. Are u painting walls or canvases?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

That’s why I’m so excited to announce today that we’ve hired Kobie Fuller as a Partner at Upfront Ventures — he will move down to Los Angeles with his wife and 1-year-old son and start later this summer. Kobie then headed to Los Angeles to join LA-based startup REVOLVE as its CMO where he got his direct operating experience.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2011

In greater Los Angeles, now being called Silicon Beach, this problem seems to be more prevalent than in most areas. Startup founders tend to add people that are close to them – friends, coworkers, spouses, family, neighbors, roommates, similar age, etc.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. It has a strong and growing angel investor base, tapping one of the largest concentrations of individual wealth in the world. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. Certainly. Most definitely.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 14, 2012

I started a new group 2 months ago in Los Angeles – Startup Workshops – #SUWSLA to teach startup success concepts and try to launch new startups.We have over 100 members now, have had a few meetings and are in the process of launching a new startup with some of the members. Below is my update to the group today.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As Graham, now Founder and CEO, says, “we are the next-gen hardware and software platform for the $550B global beauty industry.” Every founder will tell you there’s an infinite number of trials and tribulations. It’s a helpful super power as a founder because I interact with a lot of different people in many different scenarios.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Hear from venture investors and successful entrepreneurs to find out what factors they considered and how you can make your pitch stand out from the rest. Sunday 3/12 4pm.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. And it seems obvious that more venture investors should also be pursuing this market opportunity. Conventional Founder Background.

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