Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Where are we today? more than 5 years ago?
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JULY 13, 2013
And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. It was like nobody would give me any respect and they just saw me as the guy who goes and talks to senior people who does PowerPoint slides. Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009. You remember what 2009 was like, right?
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 15, 2010
Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009. Senior exec team is ex-QPass (mobile payments platform sold to Amdocs).
SoCal CTO
JULY 13, 2010
Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , June 21, 2010 Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Delegate and automate.
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JUNE 12, 2010
-Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Competitor: Slide. Total: $41.0mm plus undisclosed Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. 17, 2009 and before Jan. Steve Blank , November 1, 2010 At $5.2-billion What went wrong?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.
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