Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

These are mostly people who joined in college or their early 20s and FB sort of became like LinkedIn – the place where you were connected to too many people you didn’t really know. Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I was always more the latter.

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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? Josh Stomel: I think all of the other sites--LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, and Monster--are really large destination sites.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. Now, with all the issues around cybersecurity, and employee data and information, credentials and security access and IT it's a much bigger initiative. What drove you to start new company and get back into the startup game? We then started Edgecast in 2006.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Think LinkedIn. The venture capital process is a necessary and informative experience that is not for the faint hearted. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I only want to raise $2.5

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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. <Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) It changed everything.

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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. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. REAL information.

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