Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. I can tell you we did four investments in Southern California last year, and in none of those deals did we run into super angels, even though we are writing checks as small as $50,000. What areas you personally are looking at right now? Fouad ElNaggar: It's pretty broad.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Most people don’t love networking. At what value?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. We then captured this conversation again on camera. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties.

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