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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Okay, thats AdSense. 10 years ago.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. One of the best sales coaches I ever worked with used to talk to me about “testing prospects.” It’s ideal for people who have VCs all chasing them. For everybody else I would encourage you to meet early and often.

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