socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us.

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Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

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 caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. It's just sign up here, so we can get them into the system.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Last year, we were passively trying to get users to come to web site, experience things, and buy, this year we're going after them. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. What's your opinion on how well that works, and how much competition are they? So it's a white label offering. We also have Rabble.com, which we actually run ourselves.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

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. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 3: Competition. Tim handled the product management, vision, roadmap and competitive questions like a pro. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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). Okay, thats AdSense.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

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.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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. The only way to get VCs to move is to make sure subtly that they feel a deal is or may become competitive. Press the flesh.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

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