socalTECH
JULY 20, 2015
Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. By then, it was obvious that the original thesis behind the acquisition by Scripps was just not there. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram? So, that didn't scale well.
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2015
Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. By then, it was obvious that the original thesis behind the acquisition by Scripps was just not there. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram? So, that didn't scale well.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. 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. Read more: TechCrunch.
SoCal Delicious
MAY 6, 2012
He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions.
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