Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation way back in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. Helping others achieve their goals.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. I’d call from time to time but I had more informative and productive conversations with my hedges than anyone at Countrywide or hokey loan mod company. Now that’s the crazy part. So I waited.

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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. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

According to Eichner, Google Mini has been an important part of Google’s Enterprise Search offering since its introduction in 2005 and was helpful however it will be discontinued on July 31, 2012. Another service, iGoogle launched in 2005 will be switched off on 1 st November 2013.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. I’d call from time to time but I had more informative and productive conversations with my hedges than anyone at Countrywide or hokey loan mod company. Now that’s the crazy part. So I waited.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. I’d call from time to time but I had more informative and productive conversations with my hedges than anyone at Countrywide or hokey loan mod company. Now that’s the crazy part. So I waited.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. I was always more the latter. But I was already 37 with two kids and so I was looking for a different kind of experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. I started a company back in 2005, a very traditional kind of startup, where we had found angel money and had gone through traditional funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2015

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

Surfline.com is for the general surfing community, Buoyweather is for the international marine environment, and we also have a new site called Beachlive.com, which is targeted at the general beachgoer, with information about weather conditions at beaches around the world. Is that information free, or how are you handling that?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 As I was looking for products, I was compiling massive amounts of information, which I'd gathered looking for ski resorts, a private school for our kid, cities to live in, credit cards, web hosting companies, and so on. I'm sure you've seen them all over.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. We primarily use the telephone security method.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. Enter blockchain.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

That way, you can start filtering back that information, and you're not just getting a random recommendation, you're getting that from people who are truly your friend or who you've chosen to follow. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2009

billion in 554 deals, invested -- the lowest quarter since 2005. Among the few bright spots for Southern California as a whole was the Information Technology industry, which was up both quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year at $222.4M, up from $184.4M Nationally, venture capital investments slipped 30%, to only $5.5

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, US Government agencies suffered 1108 data breaches between 2005 and 2018 1. Some switched Ethernet services offer custom pricing to help agencies receive the best possible price, in addition to the committed information rates (CIRs). Dark fiber.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely can even append transaction data with relevant information such as menus or store catalogs. The service allows users to shop by a personal identification number (instead of providing personal contact information or payment information) and pay by invoice (delayed cash on delivery) or account (credit).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. However, I really like algorithmic content recommendation, using machine learning and other crazy geek tech stuff to help provide information to consumers. They''re even one of our advertisers right now.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In addition to the video, we also deliver everything around that video, including metadata, all the user information, all the subscriptions and monetization, and data that happens around video. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Thats what uCast is all about. I have a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The bigger aha was using the information from the social graph to drive marketing. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. He started by using email (send your eCard to a friend) and there he sees 3-4 clicks back per share action. It changed everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. It’s not only the “consumer&# of this information who learns, the “producer&# also does. In my mind public debate is the highest form of democracy. It proves that you really have freedom of speech. Let me explain.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. The region has produced 95 exits over $100 million (13%), 50 over $250 million (7%) and 23 over $500 million (3%) during the period analyzed. IPO in 1996).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. tl;dr summary.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

With Huddle, you can manage people, projects and information inside and outside your company, securely.&#. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 “Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. I hate when companies publish too much information about the total stock option allocations, the company valuations, the dilution faced in every round, etc. Call me when you’re ready to leave.” “Dude, we saw a bunch of those last year. Sorry, brah.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Healthcare data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

Then we do our very best to make sure that they build a broad set of relationships that will be continuing sources of interpreted information, that they have a full complement of Mentors to assist them as they make tough decisions Well, here’s an important follow-on story.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Contact us for more information on supporting TechZulu's growth and development. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Even though I have raised significant venture capital as an entrepreneur and have participated in dozens of transactions as an investor, I still found the book to be informative, especially with regard to the dilutive impact of some of the more onerous deal terms that we avoid at Rincon Ventures. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. They could provide more detailed information about the content producers or the shows. The folks over at Blip.tv appears to be headed in the right direction. It’s got a fresh clean look.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Utilize quantitative analysis to guide and inform your decisions but do not allow the numbers to dilute your passion. He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. After listening to a particularly sobering financial analysis, Richard often replied, “Screw it, let’s do it.”

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Contact us for more information. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Contact us for more information on supporting TechZulu's growth and development. and AudioMicro.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2016

A team that is not fully informed or that does not agree on the terms that need to be met before acquisition will ultimately confuse the process and prevent you from reaching any deal at all. A well planned acquisition should include a plan that allows the merging companies to work together successfully going forward.

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