As the playoffs are in full swing, everyone is littering their speech with baseball apologies, “We are only at the bottom of the first inning for all these technologies,” declared Pano Anthos at last week’s RoboLab forum. When illustrating his point, Anthos deconstructed one of XRC Labs‘ portfolio companies which utilizes computer vision to identify store merchandise. “Right […]
7 Keys To Timely And Compelling Startup Progress
One of the most important skills for every entrepreneur is timely and effective decision making. In a startup, any decision is better than no decision. One of the primary roles of every founder is to solve problems, make a decision, and manage the decision to results. The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle […]
LA Tech Week in Review: 10/14/18-10/20/18
Our 3 Flavors of Investment
We recently had our mid-year internal review of our funds. In going through our many investments, one factor that emerged was that we have three fundamental “flavors” of investments. We found that we actually use slightly different language when we discuss each of these investment flavors, because our perspective and expectations of the companies are distinctly different.
How to Supercharge Your Most Important Relationships
Ten years from now, your future self is yelling, telling you to do something now, telling you to focus on the most important thing to your future self’s success—investing in your most important relationships. Your future self can see it clearly. Relationships are at the core of your future success. Some people let the universe […]
7 Startup Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors
Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go.
7 Pushbacks That New Founders Must Overcome
In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. In fact, leaders are not remembered for their dreams, aspirations, or intentions […]
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/18/18
The latest venture capital, seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 10/18/18 featuring funding details for ProducePay and Tastemade.
The Entrepreneur’s Most Dangerous Temptation
Change for the sake of change or for a sense of excitement can destroy just about any venture you take on. We must be diligent to avoid the dreaded “shiny object syndrome.”
8 Tips For Quantifying Traction In Your New Venture
Your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Here are some of the key specifics for credibility and acceptance as you create and use these metrics
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/17/18
The latest venture capital, seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 10/17/18 featuring funding details for Lensabl, The Flex Company, Cloud9, and Dash Radio. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.