Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. Frankly, I wish LA had one.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. That''s especially true when you think about the investment we are putting into the domain side.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This was the first in her string of web properties. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. One of the things I like the most about Tracy’s businesses is that she is focused on volume & deflationary economics ( which is my main investment thesis as I covered in this post ).

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools. Being that the theme of the night was community, it was perfect that the event was held at CoLoft , a workspace in Santa Monica that focuses on start up entrepreneurs. I am a raving fan of AppSumo.com. Spam is when people don’t want to get your emails.

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Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. MSN Money Investing. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A. for that same time period.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44