Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. So there you have it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. 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. Ilya Pozin: Timing is everything.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. A creator and producer of social media, Michael’s responsibilities include leadership for the design team, concept creation and strategic consulting for highly engaging interactive experiences.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

They are designed so that parents will love them too. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Their products are designed to be powerful, affordable and relevant. Big and Small.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

LIFT10: Workshop on Hacking Venture Capital - Fred Destin , May 7, 2010 This morning at the excellent LIFT Conference I gave a two hour workshop on " Hacking Venture Capital " designed to give entrepreneurs a hands-on experience of (a) pitching and (b) negotiating with detailed debrief and tricks of the trade. Should I Get My MBA?

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Their products are designed to be powerful, affordable and relevant. Big and Small.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? We are always looking for ways to help improve the experience here at TechZulu. We can get your name out there.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

They are designed so that parents will love them too. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Gregg Spiradellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Their products are designed to be powerful, affordable and relevant. Big and Small.

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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. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Tim Street – Topping Mashable’s list of Social Media VIPs in Los Angeles Tim Street is a Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, New Media Consultant and Web Video Branded Entertainment Pioneer. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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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. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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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. Hyper contextualized advertising and granular measurements (like AdSense is to the web) will be established for TV. The race to establish the standard is on.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white. requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Tim Street – Topping Mashable’s list of Social Media VIPs in Los Angeles Tim Street is a Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, New Media Consultant and Web Video Branded Entertainment Pioneer. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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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.

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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). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments.

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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.

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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. When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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