InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. I would fly up to Redmond twice a week and we would all sit around a really large conference table – it was the largest (advertising) project Microsoft had ever done, a $100M advertising campaign.

Newsletter 213

Newsletter Conference Marketing Advertising 213

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He knows every startup & VC in town.” ” He was generous with his time with me and helpful. He was a mensch.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. It’s why I love the idea of the FailCon conference and hope to speak there one day. After a recent discussion I had with Steve Blank it made me remember that I had left off one of the most critical factors – a culture of failure.

Startup 350

Startup Ideas Education Class 350

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Here’s my take away. Some companies have to go first. Others will follow. It’s not fun.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Slides Capital Funding 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to TripAdvisor, Erik spent over four years at eBay, where he held a variety of positions, including leadership of eBay’s premium features business, which grew during his tenure from $124 million in revenue in 2002 to $410 million in 2005, significantly outpacing overall eBay revenue and listings growth. Venue Sponsor. Want To Sponsor?

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. Eric Rhoads, the conference producer and publisher/CEO of Radio Ink magazine said this: “Eric Greenspan is a perfect example of how a platform can be built around a personality and use social networking to build a world brand.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Tips 220

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.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. I ended up managing that project. That turned out great, which I did for five years. How did you connect with Nolan? At the time, I was running a performance-based consulting firm. I used to play videogames 25 hours a week.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

He turned me down for a job in 2005. I run a conference – could you speak? It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. Actually, longer than anybody else in the US I’ve hoped to work with. Yesterday I offered him a term sheet. But it’s mostly customer service. I get tons of.

Email 314

Email Product Startup Writing 314

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics. If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. What''s the current environment for M&A and IPOs, in general?

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. I was also on a few panels and speaking engagements at small conferences and events, just to get our name out there. He's now sitting on three different boards of nonprofits.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

Java 242

Java Manhattan Beach SoCalTech Mission Ventures 242

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories. But there’s no doubt we took the edge off.

Venture Capital 329

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 329

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

It seemed to save all of the bloggers from coming home at the end of the day from whichever conference they were attending and have to turn in long-form content like a journalist. And I’m enjoying being part of the two-way conversation again as I was from 2005-2007. Now we could all sleep more. Thank you, Twitter.

Blogging 219

Blogging Venture Capital Startup Social Media 219

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.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. No Dave S. = no knowledge of what BuddyTV is up to for me.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. Mark Suster: Often, the times you have a venture capitalist listening to you, or a potential business partner, is at a conference. True entrepreneurs always find a way to move the ball forward, without barriers.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100