Earlier this month, Will joined David Waxman and Minnie Ingersoll from TenOneTen for their fourth episode of the LA Venture podcast series. You can listen to the full episode here.  During this podcast, Will shares: Why investing in non-primary startup markets enables us to think outside of the box. As a product person, why he

When I was leading my last business, I always knew that company culture was important. But what I needed to do about it and when to do it was a mystery to me. With a thousand other things demanding my time, thinking about culture was perpetually on the back burner. This was fine for a

If you’re thinking about launching a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, there are two different ways to approach the market.  Horizontal SaaS: These companies aim to create a product that services a specific type of employee, function or division across all industries. Examples of horizontal SaaS companies include Salesforce, which sells cloud software for sales teams, and Adobe,

Building a successful business is hardly as fun as a day at the pool, though for Amanda Szabo, that’s how hers got started. The founder and CEO of Santa Monica’s ResortPass knew there had to be a profitable way for hotels to bring in day guests who wanted to use the pool and spa —

Babies have played a pivotal role in the life and career of Workast co-founder and CEO Guillermo Gette. It was his parents’ baby-product store back home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that gave him his start in web development. “I think I was 12 when I put together the first website for my parents’ company back

If they weren’t busy running L.A.-based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos, and Kim pitched his friend the idea for a product that would revolutionize the way companies manage auditing processes while the two were at Lee’s

Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students, Bhatnagar was the only female. “My first interaction with her was, ‘I think you’re in the wrong class,” Bhattacharya said, noting the error of his

  Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living app for seniors is stimulating the minds of more than 500,000 baby boomers across the world and giving them tips to stay fit and active.