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socalTECH
DECEMBER 26, 2019
To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. in 2005 for $680M. And then there is the lesson of WeWork.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. He was seeking $500k.
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JUNE 28, 2011
million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. These are very different.
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MARCH 6, 2015
Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
We recognized that it was a large business, with American Greetings having about an 80 million dollar a year e-card business, and we thought we could bring some hipness and freshness to the category. We've been able to build a really meaningful business there over the past number of years. So, we launched JibJab eCards.
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MARCH 25, 2016
It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. It’s ok to target a small market and you can probably build a niche business that is extremely valuable to you as an individual. Market Size.
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APRIL 13, 2011
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.
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