Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

monocle or Google Goggles allow you to take pictures of restaurants/objects and give you more in-depth information on the subject. With the aid of visual cues or prominent AR markers , these apps can spawn 3D objects from flat surfaces to be made viewable on phones and mobile devices. The winners of this one?

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Conference Startup Google Competition 69

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2012

For the past week, I’ve been graced by the mobile-Gods with the new Nokia flagship cellphone, the Lumia 900. With a flick of the thumb, powering the screen on is mindless, and the volume toggle is smooth. Nokia’s navigation blows Google’s out of the water, no contest. The Hardware.

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Google Netflix Mobile Screening 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

This happens with Google, too. Every change in the algorithm wipes years of effort off of the traffic numbers of affected companies as anybody hurt by the Google Panda release will tell you. in turn killed Google when it came to search. While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company.

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Google Press Marketing Content 325

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Create urgency.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

I would plan a day around which calls I could take while I was walking and which meetings could be mobile. It pushed me harder, it became my own little competition with imaginary people I was riding against and with myself. I would take a screen grab of my daily goals in MyFitnessPal and send them to my brother.

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Startup Screening Competition Training 302

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When I got married I chose a woman who had bested me academically (Brown then Wharton) and went to work in great jobs at Google, Sky and Virgin Mobile. I told this story at our screening of the must-see movie —  Code: Debugging the Gender Gap. She’s a competitive athlete. I didn’t tell Kara until recently.

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Startup Los Angeles Help Screening 150