2005 Competition Email Google 
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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. Nice sweep!
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JUNE 28, 2011
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. Not Google. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. That little online book company. Not Microsoft.
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socalTECH
MARCH 29, 2010
I bought both search and display, email, and frankly every other kind of online media--and I felt that there must be a better way to make that work, more along the model of a financial market. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005.
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MARCH 25, 2016
In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. Competition. Let me be very direct.
SoCal Delicious
MARCH 1, 2010
The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Google acquired that and incorporated it.
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2009
One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit. I'm always amazed in search engine alerts in my email, about who is talking about or using Jetty.
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JANUARY 16, 2012
I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Determine how to get access to them.
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