Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

On Tuesday Los Angeles will elect a new mayor. I’d love to see a mayor in Los Angeles who does, too. Consider Bloomberg in NYC or Ed Lee in San Francisco. Can’t get much better in a city like Los Angeles, hey? LA needs Garcetti. He would be the first tech mayor of our city.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles is known for sun, stars, and surf, and now you can add startups to the list. This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. San Francisco, CA.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Celina Kirchner is a full-stack attorney at Michelman & Robinson, LLP (M&R), a national law firm with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County (California), San Francisco, Chicago and New York. My hope is that the answer is you. She’s based in L.A.,

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

If you enjoy the coffeehouse vibe, but hate the coffeehouse distractions, Coffee & Power in San Francisco is a great place to be a co-worker. Located in both San Francisco and San Jose (and soon to be Las Vegas), Citizen Space bills itself as simply, “a nicer place to work.” Coffee & Power. Citizen Space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Andrew Armstrong is an independent business and market strategies consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area working primarily with technology and start-up phase clients. He founded and ran his own digital marketing agency, KickStart Search, for 6 years prior to being acquired by Los Angeles-based Wpromote in April of 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We then spent much of 2013 proving out the merchant model in one city – Los Angeles. We built “book it now” functionality in LA and then San Francisco. and then took the lid off of the product by announcing the company – I wrote about that here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Of course the naysayers are out again. I’d love even 0.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. Was it hard to raise the fund? Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Los Angeles. Los Angeles is known for sun, stars, and surf, and now you can add startups to the list. This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. San Francisco.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Selfishly, to me, this means we need more progressive voters coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn and San Francisco and Los Angeles and other cities that will lose some of their grip on jobs and buzz and quality of life for creatives after COVID. I’d also love Austin to be on the international radar. History proves this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 3, 2019

Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles is undoubtedly one of the best US cities for startups. Another thing that Los Angeles can be proud of is the highest number of engineering graduates in the country. The result of this mixture is the increase in investments and investors in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And aside from the obvious pride of getting involved with your home town, you obviously know a lot more about the local strengths of human resources that places like San Francisco, NY or LA might be quicker to dismiss. And so it’s much easier to catch them on the bookends of these trips to spend time in your community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Most who know Upfront are aware that we are based out of Los Angeles where we deploy ~40% of our capital but as I like to point out, that means the majority of our capital is deployed outside of LA! And the number one destination outside of LA is San Francisco.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., For more information, visit tryhungry.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. To illustrate his point he told the story of the second highest rated hotel in Los Angeles on TripAdvisor, the Magic Castle.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. TaskRabbit is available in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Once a ride is complete, passengers are prompted to donate seamlessly through the app.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

He hopes to expand to Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, and San Francisco. Product is shipped to Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and San Diego on occasion. Early Developments. The company has its first 30-barrel production facility in Alpine, Wyoming. Standard Setting Product.

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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. San Francisco, CA.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Andrew Armstrong is an independent business and market strategies consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area working primarily with technology and start-up phase clients. He founded and ran his own digital marketing agency, KickStart Search, for 6 years prior to being acquired by Los Angeles-based Wpromote in April of 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Free same-day delivery started out as a pilot program in Los Angeles, where local Amazon couriers delivered products to consumers within the same day of submitting their orders over $35.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

’ Los Angeles, City of Angels, was originally called ‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles Sobre el Rio Porciuncula, or ‘River of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula.’ San Francisco is the home of the fortune cookie. San Francisco has delicious water.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Los Angeles. Los Angeles is known for sun, stars, and surf, and now you can add startups to the list. This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

But he has helped put Boulder on the consciousness of so many young, aspiring entrepreneurs in search of somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay Area to work & live. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Tuesday, September 13 - San Francisco TechCrunch Disrupt It all begins at TechCrunch Disrupt. Thursday, September 15 - Los Angeles Drucker Business Forum It starts bright and early at the Drucker Business Forum , with a breakfast event at 7:45am (talk starts at 8:15). I'd really appreciate it.

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JUNE 29, 2017

For us Upfront means We are direct and give open & honest feedback What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) We invest early We have strong views and take strong positions We are based in Los Angeles Upfront’s Stage As our brand makes clear, we’re early stage venture capital investors. Boston, Finland and Paris).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2020

Ridesharing sharing services for kids – there is a huge market in metro areas such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, where busy parents spend a lot of time driving their children around. You can focus on airport rides only. Ridesharing for seniors with limited mobility. Spread the word.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Just last week, the following email went out to all users in Los Angeles (see graphic below). When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Startups based in the region stretching from San Francisco to San Jose raise more funding, make more money and have smarter people than startups in any other place. ” Los Angeles Is Old School. Los Angeles, California. New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

One of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the San Francisco Bay Area. We have seen this first-hand, with some of our best investments being located outside of the hub geographies, e.g., Cornerstone On Demand in Los Angeles.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2019

In your mind, the team is in Los Angeles and you start telling them how to get to San Diego. What you learn is that they were not in Los Angeles; they were in San Francisco. With a reluctant team, it’s easy to fall back on the instinct to just solve the problem yourself. Turns out, everyone was lost.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

However, with the possibility of companies moving away from physical offices, particular in huge cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, is worrisome for some. They look for job opportunities, the crime rate, school system, and what recreational activities and shopping outlets are available.

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