SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Data sources include the publications, competitors, influencers, podcasts, and communities that your audience engages with the most. With industry trends identified, your next step is to identify relevant communities and conversations. This sets the intention for your early-stage priorities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups - [link]. Social Media Revolution – Facts and Figures (Updated) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s latest small biz newsletter: lean marketing, social media, crowdsourcing & more – [link]. Her fascinating story is in the Other section below.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Second, focus on digital marketing channels that align with your target audience—SEO, social media, and email marketing have been invaluable for us. And that can make or break your customer retention, especially in the early stages. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Jordan Adair, Shirt Max !

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. The right investor also changes as you move through the different startup stages.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 17, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! An “earn in” proposal – Employee option allocations in early stage companies - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Business Development for Early Stage Startups – [link]. The best free social media tracking tools you should know about – [link]. 1 – [link].

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The Next Web

JULY 4, 2014

Alex Manthei is the Community Manager at mention, a media monitoring app that lets you monitor, react, collaborate and analyze your online presence. No matter what you do in life, chances are good you’re reliant on some kind of a community. The community. Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion'

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. Several VCs market close relationships with celebrities who can use their social media presence to promote their companies. Celebrity Relationships.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. There are now 2.8B

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. no surprise?—?that’s

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. The right investor also changes as you move through the different startup stages.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. In this article, we will discuss why it is important to understand the whole startup stages concept before you start a business to get the most benefit. Early Stage. This startup stage starts from the day you decide to work on a startup idea. Commitment.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Lower level of community familiarity. Of the Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Grockit – Provides online adaptive test prep services and community.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Every so often, a new innovation in shareable media changes the game. The latest member of this elite media club is the humble podcast. When the iPod rose to prominence in early naughties , most everyone was walking around with headphones in their ears, opening up content creators to a new method of sharing their voice with the world.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. Banks was an old hand at online communities, after all – at age 12, he’d host computer Bulletin Board Systems right out of his parent’s closet. Facilitating Blog Interaction.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They want to lock in future clients at an early stage. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work. Our lives are intertwined.

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David Teten

MAY 14, 2013

I’m giving a talk next month on “ How Private Equity Funds Raise Capital and Source Deals with Social Media” at Terrapinn’s Private Equity Latin America & Real Estate Latin America conference in Miami. Here’s my draft presentation: I argue that social media is pertinent throughout the 6-step investing cycle: Investing Cycle.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. It feels like we are still in the early stage of the hardware revolution. hardware (Photo credit: alorenzi). The making of a hardware revolution.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bellroy has built a consistent identity across social media that evokes feelings of adventure, durability, and uniqueness. It defines what you want to communicate to your audience and in what form. Brand marketing: Create a community of raving fans. In the early stages: Use product marketing to execute the GTM strategy.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Our unique approach to investing, coupled with a pioneering spirit, provides the vision to guide early stage growth companies beyond today and toward future success. Bryant Stibel - Value Growth Cowboy Ventures Cowboy Ventures helps seed-stage technology companies grow.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. This includes website content and software code as well as the more obvious examples in media and publishing. This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Social media – while a lot of the social media exposure to apps is done via targeted advertising, with over 2.5 billion users for Facebook and Instagram app startups cannot afford NOT to be discovered on social media. Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, Snap and Twitter are the top destinations. If you build it, will they come?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold. You can use your social media presence to put a call out for comments. Use your social media connections to find your core market, and direct your attention their way.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. .

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit. Were seeing 3D printing start to take off, and were in the very early stages of this revolution. Todays customers are experiencing your product or service across platforms — from mobile, Web, physical, media and referral sources.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. But the problem with this is that most VCs in the Valley, especially early stage ones, only like to invest in companies that are within driving distance from their offices. Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. When I first arrived in LA my good friend Matt Pillar (a long-term veteran of tech, media & VC) who had been in LA for some time told me, “in LA there’s none better than David.” He knows every startup & VC in town.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Edelman’s annual study on the state of trust in institutions, industries and media. Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Network.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Network.

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