techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in. Crunch With Us.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. people in the US) but it was unclear from the start which companies were (or should be) eligible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? So I obsess about ways to iterate and make it better. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. What are you working on now?

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

-->. About | Mentors | Companies | Curriculum | FAQ | Partners | Apply Now. Los Angeles. I was asked a question last week about co-founder compensation - specifically about guidance around splitting equity and salary requirements for the early contributors of a new startup. Choose a city closest to you.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. The company later merged with Twilio in a transaction worth about $2 billion at the time. #2: In total, they are valued at more than $100 billion today. #1:

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

For us, I believe it was two important things. First, our family DNA made us comfortable talking about risk and self-discovery in running a business, even without formal training. Dad turned it down, stating that there was no chance of success for a park so far from downtown Los Angeles. Now, how about you?

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I’ve been reading a lot on the web about incorporation and other legal stuff. We know that once we get money in we can clean things up, but we’re worried about mistakes that just can’t be fixed. (And And please don’t tell us to hire a lawyer.) We have no money – so we’re going to do the legal ourselves. Many thanks, Scott.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. We’re not all about the beach and sun – although we enjoy that, too.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Seth Levine, a successful VC with the Foundry Group , wrote a great blog entry about all the hype going on currently in the startup world. If more people like Seth step up with their qualified voice, they could help save us from or lessen the big crash coming. I’ve been harping about this a lot (too much?) ” [link].

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Think about it, on an inflation-adjusted basis the return of all major US stock indices over the past fourteen years (1999 – 2013) has actually been negative. And to top it all off, how about governmental policy and tone that if not outright hostile to the plight of the equity investor, is at its best supremely indifferent to it?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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. You can find a great example email in my post about How to Make Effective Email Introductions. How do you meet them?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 9, 2014

And since the start of this year, almost impossible to believe stories of fortunes being made there have inspired us all (and provoked more than a little jealousy, too!). Like in Los Angeles. So smart money is starting to look elsewhere. And there is a strong case that its best investing days may be behind it.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 31, 2013

For us, I believe it was two important things. First, our family DNA made us comfortable talking about risk and self-discovery in running a business, even without formal training. Dad turned it down, stating that there was no chance of success for a park so far from downtown Los Angeles. Starting up'

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

I’m not talking about exploring a new city and feeling like you get to re-invent yourself simply by changing zip codes; everyone loves that. But something has in fact fundamentally changed about Austin over the decades, and new Austinites should be as familiar with these changes as longtime residents. They don’t have any manners.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The most interesting company to present was The Coop , a modern, design-focused, indoor-outdoor children’s playspace in Los Angeles. As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment. The company has grown from about 100 trees rented in 2008 to 1,300 trees rented in 2011, charging $100-200 each.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

A few years ago I went on a museum date where the lady was REALLY passionate about the museum; she had favorite objects and personal stories that related to them. million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I was sitting in a pool and wondering about home.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc Today I want to talk about this thing. I know it’s an uncomfortable contradiction because every time I talk to Andy Baio about it, the conversation starts with, oh, that name. Are you really going to use that name? experiment and I was more than happy to oblige.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Think about this: if a customer was looking at your products in person, what would they look at? Luxury goods and experiences are all about how they make people feel. Add or subtract a few hundred dollars on a $10,000 plane ticket for a regular customer, and they likely won’t care about the difference. What do they feel?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. 9:41) What Brian has learned about himself in the pandemic. (10:44) 9:41) What Brian has learned about himself in the pandemic. (10:44)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2020

You can find them at zephyrcms.com, more about this later in the show. So we’re going to talk today about lessons learned in sports that translate to business. Most people can’t say that about their spouse, their relatives, anybody. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Joel Goldberg. But that’s just life.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the most popular searches about me is “ mike michalowicz net worth.” For almost all of us (me particularly) our professional accomplishments can only (or barely) fill up a single page. I sold the first company I founded, a computer technology integrator, to private equity in 2002. I know exactly why you’re here.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. Cuddling provides safe, non-sexual, mutually beneficial touch that many of us never received in the past or currently do not experience in the present. I was a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. Most notably Michael Arrington – who was originally as skeptical as I was – also became convinced about Klout and voted with his checkbook.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A COO based in the US would probably demand $200K+ a year and equity options. Even those members of our team that are based in the US are working remotely. I live in Los Angeles. In the US, bonuses are perceived as granted. If there isn’t a need for an office, then why have one?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I recently wrote a post about the open nature of Twitter and why I’m long on its future. I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. And that brings me to the US election. Please join us. Not so open.

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