SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Prior to founding 1 st Street Partners, Robin was the Executive Vice President of Publishing and the executive leading the global games business at ActivisionBlizzard where she oversaw all studio/product development and marketing/business operations, doubled revenue and delivered record profit from 2005 through 2008.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# And time is the enemy of all deals so start sooner rather than later, as anybody who was planning to raise in October 2008 will tell you. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. Vultures will start circling looking for deals. That’s a fact.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies. That as unhealthy.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. Previously, Ian co-founded personal music sharing software provider Mediacode with Rob Lord.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry. Army, for example.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. The company is the provider of the cloud-based collaboration software Central Desktop, which revolutionizes how people connect and share information to drive profitable business results. Eli Portnoy – Founder and CEO of ThinkNear.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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