SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. We also represent a few larger companies with international issues. That's great.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Now, a new breed of companies is finally making it out, which has had a huge impact on valuations. There''s a huge backlog of companies trying to make it out. What''s interesting about ad-tech, is that with the exception of AdaptTV and AOL, there''s not a lot of large buyers out there for ad-tech companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Raising capital isn’t the be all and end all of startup success. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Raising capital isn’t the be all and end all of startup success. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Raising capital isn’t the be all and end all of startup success. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company? It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. Who are you targeting with this -- buyers at companies?

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. Our roots are in Flash, and in fact the company came about as a project for Macromedia. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. In a world of hard-to-come-up-with brand names, I love that name.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch. Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We worked out a plan to merge our company with another European competitor, raise money from both sets of investors, cut the cost base and live to fight another day. We were based in London. We were weeks from bankruptcy.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Once you create a small list of these queries, then you can start to formalize the ideas into specific metrics that you track daily. Aggregate metrics. Still metrics about traffic are not leads.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot.

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