socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We've invested in a fantastic company called Mobiclip, which provides high throughput video with low battery consumption on mobile devices. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We've even seen people running Jetty duringly on a Windows Mobile phone. We've got people around the world, in three states in the U.S., Australia, and Italy.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Mobility really changes everything. Today we’re online 3.1

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible. What we are looking for, first and foremost, is the right entrepreneur.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

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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. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. In Accel that’s Rich Wong.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

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MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. An example of this was when I wrote the “App is Crap&# post arguing that mobile apps were the best form of mobile interactions available today but that in the long-run if mobile apps “win&# over mobile browsing it’s a net negative for our industry.

Blogging 250

Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

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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). Back then there were “email forwards.”

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210