Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
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. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 11, 2011
PayDivvy , unveiled today at the Finovate Conference in San Francisco, was conceived a few years ago while Mike Melby was attending the Wharton School of Business. His idea and subsequent business plan won the Wharton Venture Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Wharton Business Plan Competition.
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socalTECH
MAY 24, 2011
Start up conferences and competitions. So not 2009. Today's Insights and Opinions article comes from Megan Lisa Jones , an investment banker and investor, who says: yes, it's a bubble, and gives her top ten reason to start a company, and ten reasons not to. And, as I've argued before, not 1999. Are we seeing a bubble?
socalTECH
MARCH 17, 2016
However, if history is any lesson, downturns actually have created some of Southern California's most successful technology companies, whether through forcing those companies to swizzle their business models, by removing competition from the market, or even spurring customers to more readily adopt their products to save money.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2015
There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. “Yeah, we think about going every year.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 21, 2014
Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. ROI studies were published.
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