article thumbnail

Angel Investing (1): Dealflow – Are You Sitting at The Right Poker Table?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. Any big surprise that Chris is a very early investor in Twitter founded by Evan Williams who worked at Google after selling them Blogger.com? The Details: I recently finished reading “ The Big Short ” by Michael Lewis.

Invest 306
article thumbnail

Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

Blogging 219
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch.

article thumbnail

Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

socalTECH

If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. But, it didn't seem scalable.

Geni 100
article thumbnail

Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

article thumbnail

Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Other entry-level experiences for budding entrepreneurs included selling items marketed in comic book ads. The American Seed Company, as shown in the accompany ad, encouraged young people to sign a simple “contract” that read: “Please send me your Big Prize book and one order of 45 packs of American Seeds. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

Web 2.0 222
article thumbnail

The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

So BuildOnline kept the employees on their books and they did subcontracting work for our company, Koral. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. Think Sergey Brin, the Russian-born co-founder of Google, or Vinod Khosla, the India-born co-founder of Sun Microsystems. You can imagine the complexities.