socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. I ended up managing that project.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. John Nahm: We offer a basic service, which allows you to send up to 25 calls at a time for free. People use the free service for small parties, groups, or gatherings.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. We're really excited to be here and bring the service here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

We reasonably assure that they have oil for their engines, in the form of logistical, administrative, and professional support services that reduce their risk. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). In 2011 I talked to a friend, Steffen Thilsted , who asked me if we should join a startup-competition called VentureCup together. I felt I had created a useful service, but needed a guy like Steffen to turn it into a real business.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Google’s vision is the most ambitious of its peers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Historically, operators have worked with companies like us to bring services to market--they've worked with messaging firms, SMS, gateways for instant messaging, and companies like us for community gateways. What's your opinion on how well that works, and how much competition are they? So we sell into the carriers. So it's been a year.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is undoubtedly impressive that Richard Branson has motivated a government organization and hundreds of intelligent, affluent people to commit millions of dollars to secure a service that does not yet exist. He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. Tweet this quote].

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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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. Our clients are similarly distributed across industries ranging from banking to online services, to devices. It's extremely widely used. Australia, and Italy.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). startup scene so hot. And what happened in L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 3: Competition. Tim handled the product management, vision, roadmap and competitive questions like a pro. Consumer approach to software for business users. Free product.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. Someone who has the demonstrated ability to build a product or service, that probably has done a startup before, and is an expert in the domain. Hi guys, thanks for getting together. It's in the DNA of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service.

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Both Sides of the Table

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.

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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. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. If you want that kind of service focus I think we’d be a better fit than your internal IT department.” When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. If you’re raising money in Financial Services I’ve never met a more knowledgeable investor than my partner, Brian McLoughlin.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. I provided a short reading list in the Appendix if you want to read directly about the history of money.

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