Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Competitors: Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. This was the first in her string of web properties. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs.

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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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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Top venture capital firms continue to pour money into software robotics companies that promise to automate monotonous business operations, like processing mortgage applications, that are often performed by humans. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. Talk about local, and where you're seeing the most usage of your APIs/datasets?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. MetaMarkets.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups. Esperanto plans to use its new influx of capital to produce its first generation of 7-nanometer chips. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read). I decided not to be bothered by the cheesy title and to read it anyhow.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood].

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The new capital will speed up Mapbox’s progress in vehicle navigation and autonomous driving, enlarge its virtual reality and augmented reality gaming capabilities, and fund its expansion into Southeast Asia, China, and Europe, CEO Eric Gundersen said in a blogpost about the financing. The $100 Billion SoftBank Vision fund led a $114.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

But whether Uber, Toyota, GM, Honda, or Google end up at the very top of this mobility industry, it’ll be good news for the companies that are developing services to support future high-tech car fleets, says Anthony Rodio.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Just about anything you’ve heard [about] at Google that sounds interesting and new is based on machine learning,” Jurvetson said at the time. In a 2013 panel discussion at Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club, the DFJ partner said “machine learning” was his pick as the most important tech trend to watch for the next three to five years.

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2017

Aira takes advantage of the gig economy by connecting online independent contractors (via dedicated wireless bandwidth provided by AT&T) to guide low-vision users equipped with a modified version of Google Glass, the Internet-connected eyewear.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. They came to me 2 years ago with their company, GumGum , and were trying to raise an A round of capital. We all know Flip Video cameras by Pure Digital. I could go on and on.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

The San Jose, CA-based company, begun in 2003 by four co-founders who bootstrapped its funding, has built a customer base of 1,100 firms including Google, GM, Siemens, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Juniper Networks.

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Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2017

Uber has suffered a series of troubles early this year, from sexual harassment claims by a former staff engineer to an intellectual property theft lawsuit by Google unit Waymo. But Uber’s most longstanding, recurrent, and core problem stems from its relationship with its contract drivers.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

billion in new capital late Thursday as it priced an initial public offering that set its market capitalization at $82.4 Ride-hailing giant Uber secured $8.1 billion , according to calculations by The New York Times and other news outlets.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2017

In his first public appearance since leaving Google Ventures, Bill Maris said Wednesday his new venture fund, Section 32, is nearly fully invested—less than four months after he officially unveiled its existence in the San Diego area.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Venture capital. Google Plus. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. 20 hrs ago. Editor’s picks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. It's then transferred to our system, and out into the world.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. In Minutes.

Stickam 71

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

They often identify expeditious ways to make money in the early days of their adVentures, which allow them to reduce the amount of capital they must raise from outside investors. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. Many entrepreneurs encounter a similar dilemma. In the short-term, such opportunities are enticing.

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Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

The advent of big fundraising rounds for startup chip innovators—a class shunned by most venture capital firms only a few years ago—seems to mark a turnaround in recent VC attitudes about semiconductor investments.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

An organization representing venture capital firms filed a federal suit in Washington, DC, on Tuesday accusing Trump Administration officials of unlawfully delaying a program that would have allowed international entrepreneurs to work at companies they founded within the United States.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Get to know them now before they become household names.

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Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2019

That close pegged CrowdStrike’s market capitalization at $11.4 Trading began at $63.50 Wednesday, and reached a near-doubling of the company’s IPO price before settling down to close at $58 for a first-day bump of more than 70 percent. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It will affect your ability to get the right jobs and promotions as well as your ability to attract talent and capital. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. If you ever want a quick way to my blog, btw, you can just type that. It wasn’t meant to be.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! . Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search. And what happened in L.A.

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