SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Being too late and you back an “also ran” You also need to be right about the team. I’ve sometimes been right about the market value but too early. You’re thinking about one bullet at a time. At Upfront we often talk about these as “shots on goal” (a fitting soccer analogy given the EURO 2020 tournament is on right now).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- What You Need To Know About Upcoming Legislation. We will be honoring Assemblymember Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) with the 2008 LA Technology Leader Award, for his support in information technology issues during this past legislative session. See [link] (more).

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008. What about Edison, Bell and tesla? Sometimes, innovators enable unfinished visions of others. ARPANET becomes the Internet.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2019

About 250 people from the local life sciences community filled a ballroom at Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa (see photos above). As Greg Huang, Xconomy’s editor in chief, said in his opening remarks before a sold-out crowd on May 29: How far the region has come since Xconomy first launched here, back in 2008!

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 4, 2014

We know about the “stand your ground” laws that led to the killing of unarmed, 17-year-old African America, Treyvon Martin. We know about t he recent killing of unarmed African American, Michael Brown , in Ferguson. I remember how proud I felt for our country in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected president.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Work can be more than a job when it stands for something people care about, and involves giving more than taking.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2015

Tell us about your new fund? Brian Garrett: The fund is really continuing what we started back in 2008. We'll do about eight to ten deals a year, which will enable our four full time managing directors to have the time to work with our entrepreneurs, and help them hit milestones and attract follow-on funding.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Tell us about this new program? You may have heard a couple of firms in the Bay Area talking about the importance of founder well being, mental health, and stress management, but from our perspective, this also includes coaching and leadership development. It's developed quite a bit from when we first conceptualized the firm in 2008.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

According to the BLackstone Charitable Foundation, it believes its efforts have the potential to generate some 1,400 new ventures in California over the next five years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2016

We can often get lost in the sideshows of the political season talking a bunch of nonsense about immigration, China bashing, race baiting and overplaying social issues and fear. Key slides showed that world growth was dictated much more by China than US since 2008 and therefore is China catches a cold we all get sick.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

We caught up with Randy Saaf , the CEO of Lucid Sight, to learn more about how exactly the company is doing that, and why. Randy Saaf: Me and a couple of buddies started on of the first iPhone gaming companies back in 2008, called Jirbo. That's designing games on platforms that are fairly nascent now, like the iPhone was in 2008.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

billion, down about 1 percent versus the same quarter last year. The results were about the same as Q1, when ecommerce sales were also approximately the same as Q1 of 2008, but were better than the 3 percent drop online sites saw in Q4 of 2008. online retail spending was roughly flat from last year, totaling $30.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Thus I hear many talk about “radical transparency” when virtually ever experienced operator in my inner circle talks knowingly about that naiveté. I talk about situations like these because they are the NORM not the exception. I was thinking about this over the holiday. Foursquare? Noah Glass. Reggie Brown.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. We started talking about his joining Upfront more than a year ago. I wrote about that decision here.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

It was 2008. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general. So I called Countrywide and asked about the loan modifications they were offering. About my company(s): [link]. My mortgage payment was $14,400/month.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In October of 2008, I was sitting in front of Quicken about to make my mortgage payment. I opened it nervously thinking they were about to foreclose and to my surprise, they offered me a reduced interest rate from 8.25% to 2.375% for the next 5 years, effectively reducing my payment by over $10,000/month and eliminating the neg-am!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. Today, businesses are all about customer relationships, not just transactions. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Work can be more than a job when it stands for something people care about, and involves giving more than taking.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008. Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2010

Internet Brands has not released any statement about the lawsuit so far. Internet Brands acquired Model Mayhem in August of 2008.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

In an assessment of the "green economy" jobs in California, the Next 10 report said that the Bay Area had 9,607 green jobs in 2008, compared with 9,370 green jobs in Los Angeles. The Next 10 report found that California accounted for 24 percent of total global investment in clean technology, with a total of $11.6

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’. Just recently, one of our own had raised over twenty million dollars to grow his company and wanted advice about filling out his senior ranks to best accelerate growth.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Mark Suster of GRP Ventures , who talks about the great "VC Ice Age" triggered in September of 2008, and how it's started to thaw (a little bit). Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 14, 2010

This month, Steve Mayfield, Director of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology (SD-CAB) - a consortium of local researchers established in 2008 - will talk about the new field of algae biotechnology and how it has the potential to transform the production of fuel, food and medicine. See [link] (more).

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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

JUNE 10, 2013

We spoke with Dan Gilman , President and co-founder of the company, to learn more about the company, it''s market, and why healthcare information technology is such an interesting area for investors. We came out in 2008, and raised a convertible round from Slater, and did a Series A round from Javelin Ventures at the end of 2011.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. We failed because Apple invented the iPad and the Genius Bar.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The firm said it is the exclusive gateway and hub for up-to-the-minute reports on Lance Armstrong's new cycling team, and will feature interviews and other information about the team's activities. Demand Media and Armstrong launched Livestrong.com in June of 2008. The Livestrong.com site itself has five million users, the firm said.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I remember it even way back in kindergarden when my Saturday school teacher tried to tell me about Noah and Adam & Eve. And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Robertson says the service currently have access to about 600 stations. Robertson's MP3tunes has been locked in a legal battle with EMI since 2008; Robertson battled Warner Music Group over his firm AnywhereCD; and MP3.com Robertson said the service "moves radio into the 21st century". com itself was taken down by the RIAA.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2016

Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research that led to the development of fluorescent proteins used to illuminate tissue and track biological processes, has died, according to a statement from the university. He compared himself to John C.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

During the process of arranging early funding for Organovo in 2008-2010, I worked with angels in San Diego, all over the country, and around the world. About 40 percent of my financing at. The change has caused me to reflect a bit on the state of finance in biotech and in San Diego biotech particularly.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2009

The site--which came about as a result of a legal settlement with the state of New Jersey--said it will use questionnaires to match users values, attitudes, personality traits, and interests. eHarmony said that pricing for Compatible Partners will be the same as eHarmony.com.

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