socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

First, to catch up our readers on JibJab, can you quickly talk about where the company is nowadays and the whole greeting card business? The mythology of StoryBots, is that they are these little creature who live behind our screens. Gregg Spiradellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be? I spend tons of time each day on portfolio company issues. I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Dolgoff has a fascinating background--he invented the first LCD projector, he helped inspire Star Trek's Holodeck, and he also is a serial entrepreneur who took his company public on the NASDAQ in the 90's. By late 2005 and 2006, we saw the return of 3D movies, made possible by the digital projectors. I was doing that until 1995.

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi! Stay Tuned.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. I found the process incredibly great.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. We spoke with Curtis, along with William Goldbach , Executive Vice President at the firm, about the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. With Huddle, you can manage people, projects and information inside and outside your company, securely.&#. I always worry about companies that spread themselves too broadly. So Skype was ubiquitous.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Once a buyer decides they want to make a purchase the first thing most companies will do is check out what other options are out there to make sure they’re not making an uninformed decisions. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. We have a great screening process.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category.

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