Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. We had lamp shades on our heads, tequila in our glasses, loud music and perhaps too much sand, and burning men, and art exhibits and tres commas. In a market doing this it becomes very hard to do otherwise.

Venture Capital 466

Venture Capital Startup Marketing Pricing 466

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. The first major change in our industry was imperceptible to us as an industry.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. Mark Sylvester: It has been different. You hit the nail on the head. Our roots are in Flash, and in fact the company came about as a project for Macromedia. I thought, what are we going to do?

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203