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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

Both Sides of the Table

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. In 2011 I started using Instagram. Stay young.

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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

socalTECH

I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. Finally, what's next on your plate?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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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 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

socalTECH

Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. There was also the opportunity to use our contest engine as a tool, because the challenge in daily deals is to build members and drive traffic. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current.

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WePay Takes on PayPal | Interview with Founders Bill Clerico & Rich Aberman

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We provides a suite of simple tools to allow individuals, small businesses, and non-profits to get up and running quickly and accepting payments online. WePay was founded in 2008 by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in 2008 but launched publicly in March 2010.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 First Round Capital’s Tools, Techniques, Processes. A portfolio company looking to raise another round of capital can use this tool to research and connect with VC’s.

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