Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. How did you end up here in Southern California?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

As the human ear ages it loses its ability to hear high-pitched sound frequencies (above 15-16 kHz) through a condition known as presbycusis that starts at 18 years old. So even though it’s a playground I have mostly to myself right now – I figure every gathering is a bit more fun when your peers turn up. So, too, Snapchat.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Just before the holidays, we caught up with Blair Harrison , founder of Frequency (www.frequency.com), a personal video service which lets consumers watch video from the Internet on any of their devices. We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. What is Frequency?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I just had to line up behind him. We then started talking about Dave McClure. At first I was cynical about his ability to have 500 startups (or some fraction of that which is still larger than any VC has). I started to realize that Dave is able to do it because he approaches VC differently. I appreciate it. Show Notes.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. How did you decide to start all of this? In 2009, I was convinced the time was right.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But I never gave up. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. The “plus&# includes features like setting up & texting to groups. My excitement really starts with the Gogii team! See, I originally lost this deal. More on that later.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. When asked questions during a screening, do not respond defensively.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Is it touch-screen enabled? We will be at CES from start to finish (January 7-10), so make sure to keep up to date with all the CES goodness by checking back daily. For those of you who want to relive CES 2009 you can click here to see some of our past coverage. Does it come with wireless capabilities?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. That goes beyond just a phone call or I can't get up and have fallen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. But let me start with some data. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Every generation of new technology and new media starts out by emulating those that came before them without realizing that things are fundamentally different when you change media types. They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products. Google now has more than 500,000 advertisers with click-to-call mobile campaigns lit up.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

Insteegram is a startup that allows you to create amazing and unique t-shirts using your own Instagram photos. Ed Park was one of the first 100k users of Instagram back in early 2009. Park had a screen-printing business in 2004, starting with his own $4,000 investment. Now that’s awesome!

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Launched in beta July last year in Oakland, San Francisco, Dealflicks is a price line for movie tickets and gives movie tickets and concessions for up to 60% off to help theaters get butts in their seats. Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. 3rd Startup. Grew up in Seoul and is bilingual and bicultural.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. The other promising startups included: Zoomorama - a zooming application that digs into the details of a site, increasing engagement and conversion rates. There will be more news on this front during LeWeb.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

The 38-year-old rapper and record producer is famous for marrying Kim Kardashian and for taking the microphone away from Taylor Swift as she was accepting the 2009 MTV VMA for Best Female Video. And look at that [points to screen]. ” The answer is, “Yes, I rolled up a little something. I knocked the edge off.”

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Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

The 38-year-old rapper and record producer is famous for marrying Kim Kardashian and for taking the microphone away from Taylor Swift as she was accepting the 2009 MTV VMA for Best Female Video. And look at that [points to screen]. ” The answer is, “Yes, I rolled up a little something. I knocked the edge off.”

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Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0:

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