Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’ve gotten to know several of Rich’s partners over the past few years and recently had a wonderful Do More Faster book tour dinner hosted at Avalon’s San Diego office by Kevin Kinsella (a fellow MIT-grad turned VC.). In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So that didn’t last very long.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. I was turned on to the concept of coworking in 2010, when I hosted a networking event, for an organization I was leading, at San Diego’s first coworking space, the Hive Haus.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. These are outdated ways to manage your business finances and won’t help you maximize profits. Take that opportunity to ask for online reviews and referrals. . Dr. Eric White, OD has been in private practice since 1985. Learn more here: [link].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. You can register here. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. But that may be all that’s needed to grab a financing from investors that moved very quickly. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. The post Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

identify financing vehicles before you need them. This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego. One of the noticeable things about the San Diego health tech community is that it feels like a community.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

They often ask whether they have to move to SF, NY or LA to get financed. ” I’m trying to get a feel for their commitment to local community versus being in a place where financing is easiest. I have the same response always, “Where do you want to live? Every year I’m in the SF Bay Area 12-14 times.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Today we’ve announced that we’ve made new investments in LeadPages (a company in Minneapolis) and 3D Robotics (a company in Tijuana, San Diego, and Berkeley). They were joined by our friends in Boulder at VictorOps (across the street from our office) who just raised a $6.5m Need a drone? That would be 3D Robotics.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2013

Limits also include budget so you have to be conscious of your finances. If your finances can’t shoulder this expense yet, you can avail of prepaid legal services that have low monthly fees. Based in San Diego California, Tiffany Matthews is a professional writer with over 5 years of writing experience. Have True Grit.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Note that I merged the two Southern California regions (LA/Orange County and San Diego) into one. Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . All Seed-VC. Silicon Valley. .

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2013

Nobody can guarantee success in these challenging times; even a well-financed business idea can meet an unexpected end. She is based in San Diego, California. So, is it the right time for you? Stacey Thompson is a professional writer, marketer, entrepreneur, and a lover of weird little animals.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Lidia Calzado got a $10,000 loan from ACCION San Diego that allowed her to buy more inventory and thereby circumvent her supplier’s high interest rate. SHARE Micro Finance Limited, India. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. Lidia Calzado, U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance. I look forward to the next phase of our business.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

There are so many things to think about but before you start getting things sorted out the one major factor you have to consider is financing. Alternatively, by renting and working from storage units San Diego business owners can save a fortune compared to the cost of renting an office. Buy used equipment and furniture.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. I openly talked on the show at my embarrassment for never getting to look at this deal since it’s in my backyard (San Diego) and I had had fairly frequent online communication with the founder, Chester Ng, an ex exec from DivX. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. Read more: PEHub.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

As a personal finance website owner, backlinks are super important and what better way to get them than a completely original statistics post with survey results to back it up. I also plan on opening a new location for our agency in San Diego, by April 2020. Photo Credit: Freya Kuka.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Howard Lindzon invites me to San Diego, excuse me – Coronado, periodically for events like “Lindzonpalooza.” Hunter Walk: You’re a Canadian who moved to Phoenix and then San Diego. No fancy story, just a fun adventure and now we call Coronado, San Diego our home. We never left.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 24, 2021

That will help you determine whether you need more funding to finance your business. There are several financing options for your business. Moreover, anything involving your finances and taxes should be done with an accountant. Business expenses grow by the day, and you will need to be ready to cover them each time they rise.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Yes, great leaders need to travel more than programmers or finance directors. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. They are on the road visiting customers and investors.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This was as part of the annual conference of Small Business Development Centers, starting today in San Diego. Where to find financing? I’m amazed at how many of the people I meet in the SBDC conference have been through it themselves, meaning that they tend to be veterans of their own small business experience.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 21, 2014

Typical was this comment submitted by a San Diego VC: " I agree that the VC fund industry is guilty as charged when it comes to being opaque as to real returns data, but I challenge you to revisit your analysis in 24 to 36 months, when we all will have had time to benefit from today’s strong M&A and IPO markets."

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 4, 2013

Gaffney and Maher will support the burgeoning tech startup community in Los Angeles and Orange County, bringing to the firm their combined years of accounting and finance experience and extensive backgrounds working with early-stage companies. This announcement comes on the heels of EGFS’s recent Southern California expansion into San Diego.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Local Ann Arbor Austin Barcelona Boston Boulder Champaign Chicago DC Detroit Indiana NYC Philadelphia San Diego San Francisco Mobile National Acquisition Amazon Aol Apple Facebook Foursquare Gadgets Google Intel Internet Microsoft Music Social Networking Startup News Technology Twitter VC Tips Bootstrapping Business Meetings Creativity Customer (..)

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

I attended the ACA Summit in San Diego earlier this month. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Ranked as the fourth on the list of cities with most patent applications per 10,000 residents —after Eindhoven, San Francisco and San Diego— this southern Swedish city is both young and diverse. Malmö, Sweden. It has the highest density of startups in the world and 61 companies in NASDAQ.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. San Francisco - San Francisco has actually successfully co-opted the Silicon Valley magic and even surpassed it in some ways (Twitter, Salesforce.com); it’s again a very hot place to be right now and this will continue.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. The future: to expand and train other leaders to continue to lead the way in a Wellness Revolution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world. In LA we have entertainment, finance, textiles, aerospace, transportation, fashion and so forth.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value of over $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth over $600 million.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2012

It probably didn’t help that I spent the first week on the road (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and then San Diego) but I was home all last week in Boulder. By Friday I was in San Diego with my dad. As I reflect on the week, I accomplished all three (the financing will close first thing Monday morning).

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