Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

Now it’s time to convince them why they need to invest in your fund, when they could invest in other funds with more proven returns or partners. We invest 40% of our dollars in Southern California firms?—?and And again, just like in enterprise sales, this is all about differentiation ?—?what For Upfront, it’s about Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Silicon Valley is a very special place – the nucleus of high-growth, high technology entrepreneurship in the US, indeed, in the world. Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it. It's about creation.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it. It's about creation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). You can find very talented technology executives. You don’t. Get over it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

While I got my start as a technology entrepreneur, I have always felt that industries such as traditional book publishing or Fortune 500 retailing will reap huge competitive advantages by adopting Lean Startup approaches. Their goal is to share stories of Lean Startup applied in many industries and domains outside of tech startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization technology is not new.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This included health insurance and making them domestic partners. Later they failed to keep up with technologies and the digital boom and have even filed for bankruptcy twice. Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. Thanks to Matt Gillman, SMB Compass. #10-

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Eliqs is a Southern California based start-up who creates custom-designed craft beverage cans for any occasion worth celebrating. To us, beer isn’t just a drink, it’s a medium that brings people together in shared experiences, and we exist to amplify those experiences through superior design and technology. – Joan Miró.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. That’s healthy.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. Hope you’re enjoying the show.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. NYC has gotten a lead on us in the perception of creating a next generation technology hub and with good reason. We need to be different & unique. Not derivative.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. In fact, there's a term now, it's called, "OT," as in operations technology.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Technology Live. But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Game Hunters. Science Fair. |. Products Home. Talking Tech.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. But we do have great technology developers.

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www.jasonnazar.com

MARCH 22, 2011

While we often lack the technology and product depth of our counterparts in the Bay, I would argue that entrepreneurs in LA would thrive if you dropped them into any industry. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Pete Newell is a retired Army Colonel currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy and CEO of BMNT Partners. Sign up here.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

According to Pitchbook, the data and technology provider for the global private equity and venture capital markets, the year’s total for this region was a record $2.4 Southern California. CrunchFund: The early stage venture capital firm invests in and works with information technology companies at any stage.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners. At various points his Special Forces career took him to countries in Southeast Asia where counterinsurgency was not just academics. In 2012, Rep.

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MARCH 26, 2012

19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. He sits on the House committee that oversees the NSF - the Science, Space and Technology committee (a place where his engineering degree and PhD comes in handy.) If you like science, technology or entrepreneurship, this guy is the real deal. He gets it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

We have strong theses in key technology areas. But we do 50% of our deals in Southern California from San Diego to Santa Barbara and we think that’s part of what makes us special. We’d rather partner with those firms.” VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. We are hands on. ” Boom.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To illustrate the extent to which a company’s name is largely irrelevant to its ultimate success, let’s examine the genesis of six successful technology companies’ names. eBay – Derived from Founder Pierre Omidyar’s consulting company, Echo Bay Technology Group. Expertcity was a great name for that business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). at a level of specificity you don’t always find in VCs.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy ― demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital.

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