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. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We worked on consolidation with business units, and did that for Bridgepoint Education and smaller companies, where I actually drove a lot of cloud migration stuff. The competitive advantages of doing this are very exciting, and we get a powerful response from both audiences. They had probably 20 or 30.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. We're funding things like clean water, education, and other efforts. I ended up managing that project. That turned out great, which I did for five years.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. Think it’s purely evil to fend off competition? And the beauty of the debate is that others can read both sides of the argument and start to form their own educated points-of-view. In my mind public debate is the highest form of democracy.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Page 3: Competition. But how do you convince millions of people that need to be educated that they have a document management problems to upload their documents in the first place? Tim handled the product management, vision, roadmap and competitive questions like a pro.

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