socalTECH
JULY 28, 2017
In a world where there seems likes there is a major, security breach every day, where usernames and passwords are just not enough because they keep getting stolen, and where hackers have even started to hijack people's mobile phones to break into accounts, what do you do? It's a pretty high level issue.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2009
Please don’t also confuse this with whether a VC should invest in a CEO who’s done it before – that’s a given. One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Life’s too short – find somebody geographically desirable or totally mobile.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. LA investors are more pragmatic. We tend to do more $3 million “A&# rounds and we look for companies that have an early monetization strategy.
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 20, 2010
The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.
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