2005 Demand Design Email 
Both Sides of the Table
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.
socalTECH
AUGUST 22, 2018
We felt that pain ourselves, at our prior company, so we wanted to build great technology in a beautiful design, which was easy to use and deploy, which is how Openpath came to be. 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.
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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.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. 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.
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. Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.
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). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.
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. 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. They think design wins.
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