Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

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 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, 66% Net Operating Margins?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv . – Get current & multitask - in the car, gym, home - anytime, anywhere.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv Welcome to GDPwealth. It's the hot item on the Internet for that moment in time.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

What's your thoughts on the local venture market? We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. That as unhealthy.

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