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.
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. I've been going through the startup journey, and just finished our Series D investment.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, 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!!!) First Round Capital requires Second Round Capital.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
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. Ryan Blair: I took $20M of personal capital to start the fund. So where is the fund now?
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.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
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!!!) Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 9, 2012
In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. Approximately 33% fail, another third return an approximation of the capital invested and the remaining 33% generate anywhere from 2x to “Google-x return.” Keep your write-ups to a single page.
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