SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. Lots to learn from him.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. Good press and industry mojo wasn’t enough to overcome the financial metrics of the business and the offers came in at more like $10 million. All of a sudden you know you’re going to be judged.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. There''s many $100M plus revenue companies, and no one wants to buy them or has the wherewithal to buy them.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Are those resume public or private?

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MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Let me be very direct.

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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. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

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