Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% So why the ’09 bounce?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. They also have my favorite company intro video ever.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2010

A yellow dot with a wide mouth moves across a black screen, weaving through a colored maze of ghosts while chomping even smaller white dots. Like 2009 (and 2008), Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are pushing their motion-controlled products on an all-too-eager public. Now, forget the joystick. We also played around with 3D gaming.

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Screening Platform Product Technology 58

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 division was focused on implementing core technology for the wireless industry.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Tech Week held at the Business Technology Center in Altadena is one of the gems of tech events held in Southern California in my opinion. Besides aggregation video games has been another big part of 2009. Here is an event video we put together showcasing our interviews and Amanda in front of this massive screen they had setup.

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Altadena Electronic Arts Southern California Screening 66

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

You define the data structures that your app requires, and then the layout and logic of its various screens. We are targeting businesses that can use Journey in-house for their industry-specific needs, as well as technology vendors who can use Journey as an enabler to deliver mobile solutions rapidly. Who is your target user?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

You've got an interesting team - combination of deep technology, enterprise software, computer gaming, special effects, Hollywood - how did the team come together? In 2009, I was convinced the time was right. As a result of that, I founded Wemo Media at the beginning of 2009. But, we knew there was something there.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. At JAMDAT he designed the most successful mobile games – (Bowling, Bejeweled Multiplayer & Solitaire) and knows what drives engagement on “the small screen.&# I have to love both – but it’s in that proportion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Next post: two “4-Hour Workweek&# like hacks I started in 2009 to try and take back control of my life that are saving me hours.

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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. You could just outspend. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery. billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. When using the Handjob app , users must shake the app up and down or side to side and out pops a pre-screened job applicant. All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville.

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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]. West said that Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video was “one of the best videos of all time.”

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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]. West said that Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video was “one of the best videos of all time.”

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Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

When I was looking through their company’s history I saw the following statement made in September 2009: “Takes on WebEx, launches web conferencing and announces its US expansion with 900 US resellers&#. ’ When you use technology for a really long time you begin to spot patterns. So my advice was to focus a bit more.

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Screening Screencast Web Yammer 266

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. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. And last quarter we now know grew at just 1.6%. Such is the case with advanced batteries. We took $2.3

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