Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. First, a quick summary of the major U.S.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV. That just doesn't happen.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Atif Siddiqi: We've created a student centric marketplace, that allows businesses, working professionals, and alumni to hire student workers on demand. Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. We caught up with Co-founder and CEO Atif Siddiqi , who told us about the service. What is Ninjathat?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. First, a quick summary of the major U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Because of the higher demand there, and because there were not a whole lot of providers, plus our good connections in Japan, we started there. There's really big demand.

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APRIL 5, 2010

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. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2011

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. It’s hard to balance the continual demands of the business, personal relationships, and home life. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. TVSync is not alone in developing ACR.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. There was legislation moving through in 2004, which ultimately came out in 2005, which was a starting point for the smart meter discussion. For our readers who might not be familiar with Teridian, can you describe what your business is?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2016

A good example of this eBay’s acquisition of Skype in 2005, which resulted in a loss just four years later because leadership failed to integrate the two companies effectively. Making strong demands and undervaluing current employees and management will surely lead to a losing proposition. Be Diplomatic.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We're now ramping up the team and production and capabilities along that demand curve. What drove you to start new company and get back into the startup game? Alex Kazerani: We did our first company in the 90's, and sold it in 1999. We then started Edgecast in 2006.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. Brett Crosby: Having demand on both sides of the marketplace is extremely important, and that's sort of obvious.

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MARCH 25, 2016

But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. ” In the airline industry they have the ability to withhold inventory unless you’re an 800-pound gorilla where they can’t afford not to have your traffic while their competitors have it. What are the customer’s alternatives?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2010

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. It’s hard to balance the continual demands of the business, personal relationships, and home life. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't. Never stop learning.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. 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. We were involved in the Gradient X deal, and that was a nice one.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Although some of the new workers are likely needed to fulfill the one-hour delivery demands of its new Prime Now service, Amazon obviously anticipates yet another strong holiday performance. These positive feelings extended fairly broadly, too; lower-income shoppers were more optimistic than they’d been at any time since 2005-6.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

There is a lot of pent-up demand. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales. I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors.

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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).

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra).

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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. There's on-demand platforms for accounting, customer relationships, and things like that, and the options in each of those categories have let us have low monthly costs.

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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. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

of startup businesses as far back as 2005. Almost all angel investors are “high net worth” individuals who made their money running a successful business in your domain, and they will mentor your team as well as demand the discipline you need to make your business work. Angel Investor. Interim Executive.

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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. on to their next companies and that produced Demand Media, a public company who even with a slight recent reduction in share price is still trading at $1.3

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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. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided. By then the open-source movement had really developed.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I see companies that have been trying to raise professional money for years and have struggled suddenly gearing up for ICOs because they know there is so much demand from them — precisely because so many people speculatively made money on Bitcoin and Ethereum. What I can tell you from my vantage point?

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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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