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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

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MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo!

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, In our regions?

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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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 ). GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318