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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. We felt we'd have more impact over time, if we instead focused on people who are one generation younger, still working, and are active. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company.

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Interview with Jerry Fitch, Teridian Semiconductor

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Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. We've got four generation of parts in the market, with three in production, and the fourth sampling--with a fifth in design. Jerry Fitch: California is always a bell-weather for this kind of activity.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I first met Ethan in 2005. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

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Zac Brandenberg: Meteor Games is a game design studio, focused on casual social games. They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. What that means, is that essentially, when you play the game, you collect gold when you farm or engage in any activity.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

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Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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Interview with Alex Kazerani and James Segil, OpenPath

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We felt that pain ourselves, at our prior company, so we wanted to build great technology in a beautiful design, which was easy to use and deploy, which is how Openpath came to be. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. You guys did pretty well selling Edgecast to Verizon. We then started Edgecast in 2006.

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