socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2012

According to the email sent to subscribers, the email will highlight "the most important things being talked about in the mama-sphere today". Matt Coffin sold his last firm, LowerMyBills.com, to Experian back in 2005 for over $330M. The first email sent out to subscribers links users directly to news stories from around the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

S**t’s About to Get Real Herb Scannell is teaming up with mitú’s founder & president Beatriz Acevedo who oversees content production, talent development and social impact. 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. How about your largest increases in car sales? billion to finance US startups.)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. It got me thinking about the tech industry. I have written about this before in my post on Conference Hos. Talking about changing the world. And beneath it all I worry more about the perception that ballers on a budget set for others. Why so many on leases?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Lots of firms are now talking about this pretty actively.”. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. “People who were investors thought, ‘Why would you do this? It’s not where the talent is. It’s a flawed strategy.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 With most businesses you rarely hear about the months and years of hard work behind the scenes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. I talk about it often including in my own personal narrative. Everything I learned about startups I learned by making mistakes at my first one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2021

I’ve had the pleasure of working with a couple of the best-known entrepreneurs of our time, and read about many more in the classic book, “ Discover Your True North ,” by Harvard leadership expert and best-selling author Bill George. Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2010

Oversee said Brady had affected about 5 percent of the auctions on the site since 2005, affecting about 1 percent of SnapNames auction revenue. Oversee also said it had also reported Brady's conduct to the US Attorney's Office and to the Federal Trade Commission in November.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general. About my company(s): [link]. Now that’s the crazy part.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

We caught up with Uygur--who has had his own show on Sirius Satellite Radio, hosted MSNBC Live, and currently has his own show on Current TV--to learn more about The Young Turks, his online efforts, and his views on how media is shifting to the Internet. We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25 billion views.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2014

In 2005, Lenovo first burst onto the scene by acquiring IBM’s PC line, namely the brand recognition of the Thinkpad line. And now they’ve just shocked the world by announcing their plans to purchase Motorola Mobility from Google for about $2.91

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?” I asked Jonah about this. “I Back then there were “email forwards.”

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APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

Founders don’t often think about “primary&# stock vs, “fully diluted&# stock in terms of voting rights. Liquidation preferences never say things like “participating preferred&# although we all talk about it. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. I never did.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. Steve notes that in 2005, when Four Steps was published, conventional wisdom at business schools was that, “Startups are nothing more than a smaller version of a large company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Nobody should celebrate, cheer or shout, “it’s about time.” ” This is about 336 people whose lives are altered and need to begin looking for work, saying goodbye to friends & colleagues and go on that journey of transition that most people dread. I put up this slide as part of my discussion. Does this suck?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. Our goal and promise to consumers is to let them stay connected to all of the video they care about online, regardless of where it comes from, on any device. What is Frequency? Blair Harrison: Frequency is an Internet video service.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

My partner, Craig Cummings, and I were fortunate to close our $20M fund in October and couldnt be more excited about identifying new portfolio companies and helping those entrepreneurs build their businesses. As I look back on the last 18 months, I realize just how hard it was. He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True). Facebook’s new analytics tool.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

First, within our portfolio I am really excited about Wheels (Crosscut led the seed round at the end of 2018). We are more thoughtful than ever about our companies hitting meaningful milestones to attract further rounds of capital. in 2005 for $680M. If the music can stop for WeWork, it can stop for anyone.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

We spoke with Arjan Shutte about the investment firm and its interest in financial startups, and why it moved from New York. Since coming here, we''re actually really excited about how many exciting financial technology startups we have run across, which is a lot more than we originally thought. How did you end up in Los Angeles?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. I had started keeping a personal blog (on Blogger) about family life just for my friends and family and I realized how hard it was to get even my closest family members to remember to visit there to see updated photos of the kids.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. This post is not an ad for Cooley nor for any of the fine professionals I’ve talked about in this post. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We spoke with CEO Bryan Cheung to learn more about LifeRay, and how it grew from a church basement and open source to $100M+ in revenues, without ever taking outside capital. It's really just about being able to make fixes and updates, without introducing new features. What is LifeRay? Finally, what's next on the horizon for you?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. What IS relevant about the size of a VC’s fund?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

How did the idea for the company come about? What's unique about us, is that there haven't been modern, commercial technology which companies could subscribe to an implement in their corporate environment. Tim O'Neal: I've been a computer junkie and geek since I was a gid. The concept of a community grid is not a new one.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

We caught up with Howard to hear about what Gamzee is all about, and where he thinks the next big thing in games is going to be. What is Gamzee all about? I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. Howard Marks: We started our business in April.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We talked with Richard about NordicEye's $30M fund, its interests in Los Angeles, and why a Nordic venture capital firm has its eyes on Southern California's technology startups. What's wonderful about this new fund, is we literally started in April of 2017. The issue there is you're not hearing about it until too late.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits. 4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? In the early days, do it yourself.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We caught up with Gregg Spiridellis, one of the founders of JibJab, to hear about Storybots. First, to catch up our readers on JibJab, can you quickly talk about where the company is nowadays and the whole greeting card business? Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Can you talk about that?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Deal evaluations the Foundry way, which continues into a great discussion about VC decision-making processes. “So RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big? was starting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 7, 2017

In a 2005 study , researchers examined the effects of things like flexible use of workspace on job productivity and team cohesion. Read more about building a productive office environment at Tech.Co. Further, nobody automatically pitches an idea out in the open. Lack of Privacy and Control.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. . So it was about in the 2004 timeframe that I made my first trip to Santa Barbara. had a very different philosophy about affiliate marketing than Be Free. Let's just say that Greg was no longer employed by us about six months later.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Thats what uCast is all about. Kanaan Jemili:We have about six areas we focus on. The other thing we do, is were very transparent about sharing data with them, like user data and advertising data. Kanaan Jemili. What is uCast? Who are your core customers?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. Today, everyone cares about it. It's been fantastic.

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