Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. For those who haven't heard yet, tell us about DocStore and what it is all about? Jason Nazar: We've worked on the company for three years, and the site went live in November of 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Marc Andreessen kicked off another great debate on Twitter last night , one that I’ve been talking about incessantly in private circles for the past 2-3 years – what actually IS the definition of a seed vs. A-round. I think it would have been equally annoying if I had chosen to be dogmatic about it. So back to reality.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

It''s been a long road for Rubicon''s backers, who first invested in the company back in 2007, when Clearstone Ventures invested in Rubicon''s Series A funding. Clearstone owned about 24.0% The IPO is a huge win for backers Clearstone Ventures, News Corp., and Mayfield. of Rubicon Project at the IPO. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. It’s all about fixed overhead and efficiency. The simple economic truth. Here is a simple economic truth.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2020

Add the economic environment to the mix of reasons for failure, including jolts such as the Great Recession of 2007-8 or COVID’s devastation to travel, retail and other personal experience-based businesses. How about you? What about next time? Including cash. The economic environment changing downward.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2013

I started out this year writing about how much I hate December. So I wanted to start the year off talking about putting December behind me. As an aside, I was blown away by just how many people told me they felt the exact same way about December but never wanted to say it publicly. . So I’m not even talking about that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2012

A report today from Bloomberg says that Providence Equity Partners , the private equity firm which owns part of Los Angeles-based Hulu , is selling its stake to the firm's other owners in a deal valuing the firm at about $2 billion. No details on the deal have been announced.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. A little background: 409A valuations are named for the section of Internal Revenue Code Section that created them in 2007. The post What Are We Talking About When We Talk Valuation?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. I wrote about him here. More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. Or what TechCrunch thinks.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Westlake Village-based Intuit Financial Services , the arm of personal finance software maker Intuit, said Tuesday that it has published a survey showing that about one third of Americans are now using online banking software using online products, up from 27 percent a year ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I was thinking about this yesterday because my assistant Tasha posted a link on Facebook to Paul C. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. Think about it – who knows angels the best? I wrote about there here. Be helpful.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The makeover is the first major redesign of the site's logo since its launch back in 2007. View Slacker's video about its service in our video section. Slacker has a long list of competitors, ranging from Spotify to Rdio, to Pandora, all of which are looking to grab a chunk of the online music streaming market. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. Suddenly it was about very frequent commentary in a bite-sized format. My LA VC colleague Peter Lee of Baroda Ventures has started a blog about VC. Now we could all sleep more. Or could we? So what gives?

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

Fandango also said it had about 28 percent of its total tickets sold via mobile in May, which appears to be one of the growth areas for the company. Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. Come hear him talk about about SoCal startups, entrepreneurship and the investment scene. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. 7 times out of 10 he knows what’s going on before I do and is either slipping a paper on my desk, texting me or emailing me something about to go down. I keynoted.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. What's unique about what entertainment companies are looking for in mobile ads? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm run by technology mogul Elon Musk, disclosed today in an email to supporters that the firm has racked up over $3 billion in revenues in its launch manifest, and has been profitable since 2007. SpaceX is selling prices of a standard flight of the Falcon 9 at $54M.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I often talk about what I’m looking for when I meet with an entrepreneur. But without a passion for what you do I am dubious about your chances for success. If I had to put a number on it I’d say 1 in 20 pitches – maybe 1 in 30 – are by an entrepreneur who comes across as truly passionate about her project.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2012

EMI sued MP3tunes in 2007, accusing the firm of violating its copyright. com, was sued by just about every label out there before succumbing to bankruptcy. According to Robertson, in an interview with CNET, the bankruptcy filing came due to overwhelming legal costs to fight a battle with EMI.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Talk about the new firm and the new fund? I'm primarily focused on energy, and a little bit on agriculture and a little bit on water, all things I know something about. Talk a bit about your background in this area? In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. Aaron Fyke: My background is mechanical engineering.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Stech said he had a brainwave about the opportunity when he finished graduate school at Stanford and moved to Las Vegas, which at the time was at the epicenter of the housing market crash of 2009. He bought a one-bedroom condo that sold for $267,000 in 2007 for $19,000 in cash and realized that the market was ripe for the taking.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

What’s So Cool About Coull? I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007. In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The firm said its product will allow educators, students, parents, administrators as well as others share resources, get information about grades, and other educational information. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

After starting Organovo in 2007, I spent much of the next decade as CEO seeking financing to advance our bioprinting technology. About 40 percent of my financing at. Because I stepped out of an operational role early last year, I am now in a position of providing financing to aspiring life sciences entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means? I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. Prior to the pandemic, about 1/3 was e-commerce. Our core competency was in the search space.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Of course everything could be replicated if a massive juggernaut like Amazon or Google wanted to pour all of their resources into it but I’m talking about technology that is hard to replicate, takes years of know-how and once adopted is significantly valuable.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about? Only a dummy would do it again.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2010

According to Green, the firm is developing a system which determines, for a particular advertising impression and particular user, on a particular site and particular instance, how much that impression is worth--using a wealth of proprietary data sources drawing in information about the user, site, demographics, and other factors.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 13, 2010

In this video John Greathouse does a small Q&A about building what traits/roles are needed to create a strong start-up team. Read the post about building Tribes: The Tribe. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Meredith Publishing.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We’re mostly talking about software, after all. People couldn’t help but expect a roll-out like that of smartphones, where the launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to adoption by every tech-savvy person by 2010, and the vast majority of the developed world by 2013. OK, and LIDAR, and cameras, but the software is the key.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. I think that’s what people actually like about it. A bit like a blog that is put out regularly but not overly edited or self-conscious about word choices or typos. Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com.

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