Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others. Bass Associates.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts). Search Engines.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. There is a lot of pent-up demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0)

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Blogging Journal Press Startup 309

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. The other thing that I think he's really done well is his look at value of different marketing channels. Often, what we are trying to do initially is show exactly how these numbers play out. You only build what you need to prove that model.

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Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 62

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 How big is the firm now?

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Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

We had to promise really steep service SLAs and help desk hours. But I believe that if you go down this road you will struggle to simultaneously serve the SMB market. The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. We had to do intense training sessions. And know that VC will be hard to come by.

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Startup Custom Customer Resource 389

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ And the fan producers all help market your show because they too want the attention.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. But then the world changes.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

But, it hasn't yet cracked the mass market code. I believe that when you marry the web and technology out of the game industry, you can empower people to really exploit the potential that virtual worlds have to bring people together and socialize. There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0,

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Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

McDonald’s IPOed 46 years ago with a market cap today of over $100 billion, why? Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. For we live in speed.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media. We spoke to him, and he had the sense that the market was right for us.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. They've built successful companies, but looking at the IPO market they're essentially stuck.

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Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Maybe this meme will help. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. event I did last fall.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 A friend of mine was in the residential construction business, and at the time the market environment was pretty good for starting a home construction company. It was at the heydey of both the housing and mortgage market.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

We spoke with Ross about the investment, as well as about his experience as VC and his outlook on the market. I feel like even though we're in a challenging market, there are some really great opportunities here. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0, Thanks for the interview.

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Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. BrianSolis.com is ranked among the top of world's leading business and marketing online resources. . gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm. Rick Heitzmann.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

One of the very interesting things people were doing, which is the foundation of Quub, is what we've since stated calling micropresence--providing short little bits of information to help people reading their instant messages a clue of what was happening on the other side of the instant messaging line. What's the business model behind this?

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Large Markets Address existing markets poised for rapid growth or change. A market on the path to a $1B potential allows for error and time for real margins to develop. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

Company 40

Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Sometimes in emergency situations, and other times to take advantage of market opportunities that quickly arise. What is the Rubicon Project? Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 2.0: By Frank Addante [Startup 2.0] Marketers, and their respective companies, were looking to “go online.&# What is the Rubicon Project? Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Advertising Web Design Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. This helped us develop better features, and it also created an extreme sense of urgency for our engineers. Be scrappy.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. It builds confidence in the employee, it builds up your confidence and your team’s confidence in that employee and their strengths help correct the weakness. What is the Rubicon Project? Startup 3.0:

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Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

A colleague working at the National Science Foundation said to me, "The lag time between fundamental idea and marketable product is usually longer than policymakers are willing to consider." One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0" An interesting anecdote about use of Web 2.0

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. When companies wanted first class advertising placement and high-end marketing technology, we were the place to come. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. My experience sometimes helps me avoid making the same mistakes twice, but that requires me to "think" before I jump into the fire. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. And, the market that I love just happens to be on fire right now and the gap seems to be widening. I always say that first thing to do is to find a big market and then connect an army to that market.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40