Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. The Appallicious platform is an invaluable tool helping San Franciscans find and navigate through city parks, playgrounds and museums. As fast as life moves, technology moves even faster. It only took Facebook eight years to land a billion users.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. LinkedIn has been my primary tool for keeping track of who to invite. * The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. to help bloggers and blog readers with comments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Venture Financings we Discussed.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Thanks to the tools yall are building, we now have more far-flung friends--including people weve never met f2f--than ever before. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

It ran in April of 2008. Tom Grasty: There are, as I like to say, no shortage of online video editing platforms, online video editors, or social networking sites, even though there are fewer online editors now than eighteen months ago. We licensed our product to USC Annenberg as a teaching tool in the classroom.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When the Mars Phoenix found water on Mars in June 2008, they announced it on Twitter. My agency, VaynerMedia , used it heavily as a community management tool in 2009 and 2010. It was, and still is, an incredible customer service tool. It’s a powerful tool for social utility and a great social network.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. AdReady – Develops software tools and management platform that assists content publishers and ad agencies with the creation of display ads. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , He blogs here and tweets here. Want to sponsor?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. Do they invest in funds that are $200-300 million versus $50 million or $500 million.”

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

This is a great three-year plan that provides funds to allow schools to purchase research tools, interact with NASA (including a trip to Houston), and provide advanced training for teachers. social software tools involves the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander – which is Twittering live from Mars, so to speak. Army, for example.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

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