SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. It’s also the wrong answer. Should I Get My MBA? What should I do?’.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy.

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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. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show. He was raised and educated in London.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. Get funded now, if you can.&#.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We closed our fund in August of 2008. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in? Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In 2008, Mitch was named Canada’s Most Influential Male in Social Media, one of the top 100 online marketers in the world, and was awarded the highly prestigious Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Last year, in 2008, we raised about $670,000 in a seed round, with a bunch of venture capitalists participating at the seed level--some of them are very well known in Silicon Valley, but we haven't released their names yet.

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Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. You don’t need all the balls and whistles (like stats) overloading most scripts available on the Web.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 1, 2008

They are creating a vibrant future for California.” (excerpt from a Teri Takai speech, 2008) California -- if it broke off from the United States and became its own country, would be the "sixth-largest economy" in the world, according to an oft-repeated phrase. While the growth of Web 2.0 While the growth of Web 2.0

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AeA CIO Web 2.0 Technology 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In 2008, Mitch was named Canada’s Most Influential Male in Social Media, one of the top 100 online marketers in the world, and was awarded the highly prestigious Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. And the future?

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry. Army, for example.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. He is currently CEO of ThisWeekIn.com , a web television network he co-founded with Jason Calacanis and comedian/actor Kevin Pollak. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. The market had tanked.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Back then there were “email forwards.”

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210