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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. Until we weren’t.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. You see lots of them selling small business advertising, neighborhood magazines, and the like. We also mail checks to the advertisers every day, to make sure people get paid. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Loren Bendele – CEO of Savings.com. Laura Trice , M.D.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

I had finally appeared on the front cover of a magazine (TornadoInsider – then the top European VC magazine) but I felt so fat in the picture I never sent it to anybody. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was.