SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While in law school, my partner, Leigh, and I had a concept for a law firm that did more than just “law.” What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person. They’re buying you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area. I've been in venture now twice.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

CTB: I became aware of the global problem after giving birth in the US and experiencing a childbirth complication personally in 2003. I still feel like a California girl at heart and come back as often as I can. My mother and one of my sisters are there and a few of our board members and many partners are based in the Bay Area.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

About 5 years ago, my business partner and I were debating on whether to spend $2,250 for a branded domain from an online domain brokerage and had fallen in love with a techy name for our marketing firm. The name, Saranap dates back over 100 years when a commuter train cut across California, connecting Oakland to Sacramento.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. San Francisco, California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

Akash Bakshi , Nadja Mannowetz , and Andrew Bartynski are the co-founders of University of California, Berkeley-based YourChoice Therapeutics. Nadja Mannowetz : YourChoice Therapeutics is a spinout of a lab at the University of California, Berkeley. That became their new mission.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. The round, which was participated in by Growth Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Accolade Partners, among others, brings the company’s total financing to date to $68.5 Jeff Zucker to be new president of CNN Worldwide. ” Sounds about right.

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