Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 1, 2011
years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? &#. I started by writing 3-4 times / week.
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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InfoChachkie
DECEMBER 22, 2011
I began publishing my blog in 2008. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. 2011 Rank. Do They Believe?
socalTECH
DECEMBER 31, 2018
We do, as of the writing of this in early December, seem to be seeing a correction at this time. There is an all out ground war right now between Amazon and Google for control of voice in the home. I had expected a correction much earlier in the year and I was wrong.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development.
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
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).
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds.
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