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Interview with Shaan Sethi, Jaanuu

socalTECH

The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 In the last three to six months, we've had the good fortune of bringing on talent from The Honest Company, and from some really strong, Web 2.0 companies around the LA area.

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Lymber, Founded in Early 2016, Surprised by Mindbody’s Buyout Offer

Xconomy

Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. Lymber aggregates data about the real-time availability of fitness and wellness classes for its users, with about half that data coming from Mindbody, Hecht explained.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0 There has already been at least one high profile funding from this class, which is Thread – a product that raised $1.2 Seems an obvious fit.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

socalTECH

Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 trillion asset class we realized there was a real opportunity here. People are matched up over the phone, through ad-hoc referrals, and a system of brokers and finders. tools available, not to mention the growth and size of the private equity market--it's a 2.5

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Interview with Ross Levinsohn, Velocity Interactive Group

socalTECH

We have a world class team that can scout out the next great companies, and we can help them as much or as little as those companies like, those we'd definitely like to take more of an active role, because this is what we know. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0,

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Elements of Sustainable Companies

Frank Addante

I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit I think this list is spot on. Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Electronic Arts and Atari.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. Even from a young age, my experiences as president of my college fraternity were more formative in my experiences as an entrepreneur than my economics classes were. My political science degree was more helpful than my economics degree.

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