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58 Articles match "Fund","Yahoo"
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As As a result many funds are OK with big bets. It’s Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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Monday, March 1, 2010
The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). My fund was an early investor in Overture. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Added 2/22/10 by Todd Zebert Name: Mobile Monday (MoMo) Sites: www.mobilemonday.net , twitter.com/MobileMonday , LA Chapter , LA Chapter Facebook Group , LA Chapter Yahoo Group Self-description: "Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. We attract the who’s who from the financial and entrepreneurial worlds… players from equity, hedge funds, lending and
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Have you noticed how some entrepreneurs look at getting funding as the ultimate sign of success? Not only is funding not the finish line, but the mistakes you make when you get investors can cost you when you finally do get to the finish line and are ready to sell your company.
Brandon has done stints as an operator at all stages of the funding cycle, and at Soros Private Equity, investing over $70M in technology deals. Brandon Watson came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money for his startup, how he grew it, and why he had to sell it. The two most powerful points
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, AdventureLink is venture funded by Anthem Venture Partners, The Mailroom Fund, and Allegis Capital. where he was Senior Vice President of Audience Experiences for North America. Dossett also was Executive Producer and General Manager of MSN, and was CEO of Carpoint, and GM of MSN HomeAdvisor.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the developer of music and band marketing software headed by former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said over the weekend that it has added Andrew Mains as its new VP Artist Relations and Services. The firm has received venture funding from Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. Tags: topspin media yahoo music content Mains was Head of New Media at Interscope Records. The firm said that Mains will help artists find their way to the firm's platform.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Snowball Factory is headed by Jonathan Strauss, who according to his profile on LinkedIn was most recently a Sr. Product Manager at Yahoo!
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Los Angeles-based Hello Music , a new startup looking to help identify musicians and help them distribute their music, said Friday that it has raised $4M in a private equity funding. The funding came from KVG Partners. Hello Music said that the firm will help musicians by linking them to distribution through such firms as AudioMicro, Getty Images, GigMaven, LyricFind, MediaNet, Next Big Sound, Slacker, According to the firm, the company was founded by Zack Zalon and Brendon Cassidy. Zalon was co-founder and managing partner of Wilshire Media Group, and also previously was at Virgin Digital
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Los Angeles-based Vicente Capital Partners said Wednesday that the investment fund has raised $150M for the firm's Growth Equity Fund. The firm said its new fund will invest between $5M and $15M in equity in expansion capital or buyout deals, to companies who have $2M to $25M in revenues and up to $5M in EBITDA. Limited partners in the new fund include CalPERS, Fairview Capital, JP Morgan Asset Mgmt. & Affiliates, LACERS, LA Fire and Police Pensions, New Mexico ERB, New Mexico State Investment Council, New York Common and Teachers' Retirement System (IL). The fund's team,
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Monday, October 26, 2009
think you were the same way, you started your company with the credit card, and very creative funding. We gathered up the funds to be able to buy the hardware and the equipment everything and software and the program. And I said, "Alright, I am going to fund a business with my credit cards once I graduate. If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, They are not just for fund raising. This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice .
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Remember that most fund raising takes time. And they have responsibilities for helping to manage their fund. Plus, Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Not to mention what happens in years where they also need to raise a new fund.
Do you know a “hot” company that you think would like an intro (if so, make sure it’s one that’s This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221; Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s I believe in seeing VC’s before you’re ready to fund raise (see my post here ), but if you’re not prepared to have a discussion or debate about your company or industry then don’t bother.
This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221;
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