InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. We've grown really fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture. They see how hard she does her job.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. We realized that no one had built a Groupon-like platform, so we built one because our customer asked for it. It's similar to a franchise.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. You can integrate Google or PayPal options--either or both--and it provides a big chunk of storage.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so.

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Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Block IP address. Andrew Chen.

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Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google. Thank you, John.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes. 301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

By Frank Addante Since Googles announcement of their decision to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 A move very similar to what Google is doing with DoubleClick today. The online advertising market was hot 7 years ago, it tanked during the dot-com fall out and recently (a few years ago, along with Googles IPO) has become hot again.

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. I believe that.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Or if you prefer the phone, we can be reached at 888-675-2007.”.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We'll even write a half a million check. Outside of Google, they've been one of the most successful companies over the last five or six years, in my opinion. That as unhealthy. That's the sweet spot for what I personally am looking at.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. InviteMedia (acquired by Google). Targeting SMB’s (small & medium businesses).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x But let me be even more clear. Reversion to the Mean.

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Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. It is open also in the same way that Google was open in its early days. Google started as a place where you came to be taken via links to other people’s websites.

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Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense. Work it did.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it. Use Snapchat.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Enter Google. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. they’ll continue to look for independent technology partners.

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