Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization. Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. The Exit Problem.

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

(Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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