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AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. “People still want calls …&#.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

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JULY 10, 2012

Many “tech companies” now have green screens. I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. And make-up artists. And costume & set designers. And sound engineers. And writers!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I’m now a VC. Therefore if you want to change just one field of data we had to redraw the entire screen. Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. There was no engagement.

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing. he was showing us what was on his computer). And we had full screen video.

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