Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Majid Abai, CEO of Pringo Majid Abai is the Chief Executive of Pringo, Inc. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

So, we put something together, and put in some money, and literally the next day I was out to breakfast with Josh Roth, the former CTO of Rent.com and NTI Group, and Josh was also looking for something to do. Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005.

Newsletter 216

Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram?

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram?

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. No Dave S. =

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78