SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

Why did you decide to move to venture capital? We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. We had to do a reduction-in-force and layoff early in our career, and I thought we were done. That allowed me to take a step back, and relocate. My job was hiring people.

Southern California 133

Southern California Startup Layoffs Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Ryan Blair: The theme around the fund is pretty simple. Sending the zeros and ones into the air was the same and sending nutrients into your mitochondria, except that at Visalus, it was not capital intensive like it was at SkyPipeline. It was really the same business, but with less capital. So where is the fund now?

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) Yes, the VC industry was over funded and too many non value-add people entered the industry.

Invest 284

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Either scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!)

Invest 152

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2017

There is no Obamacare replacement, at least not as of this writing. The Senate Republicans are fractured, with a handful of conservatives and moderates each giving a cold shoulder to their chamber’s version of healthcare reform, the Better Care Reconciliation Act.

Writing 56

Writing Report Artificial Inteligence San Diego 56