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OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. So, we're focused on applying technology more efficiently and creating more value for investors.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

On the other hand were everybody else including those that tried to make a full time of it like Robert Scoble as well as those that did it as a side job like VCs, CEO’s and start-up entrepreneurs. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. Thank you, Twitter.

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JULY 18, 2013

Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. Lots of people think of Los Angeles as a media center, for obvious reasons--but, we knew before we came, there is also a lot of exciting, financial technology going on here. How did you end up in Los Angeles?

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APRIL 5, 2017

Technology is transforming every aspect of business, and our technology is one piece of the puzzle that helps them get there. Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. What is LifeRay? Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I’m in Seattle this week.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher Scherzay: FavRav is basically a platform that allows small businesses to get a footprint with customers, using the referral network of social media. Taher Scherzay: I spent 20 years working for the industry, working for Lucent Technologies. We redesigned our service and migrated to another platform.

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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 gave me the general landscape view and understanding of online technology businesses. It started to feel like the Matrix to me.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. tl;dr summary.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus. What do you mean by infrastructure?

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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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MARCH 29, 2010

While we participate in a NYSE-like platforms, we utilize those real time auctions to better buy media, and buy media in a better way than what we've done in the past. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005. How did you decide you wanted to start a new company?

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AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. Are you using your own technology for the virtual world, or are you leveraging technology from others? Sherry Gunther: We're using existing technology. There's always technology involved in delivering content.

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MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. If I had link bait with stupid ideas then entrepreneurs wouldn’t want to work with me.

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JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” You see – running a SaaS platform for customers like you is the ONLY thing our team does.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. The underpinning of the technology is much more complex than that, of course, and we've been building this for awhile. in architectural technology. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent. I think of it as a Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. But putting large sums of money in the hands of first time or even experienced entrepreneurs with absolutely no oversight is a recipe for disaster.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Folksonomy.

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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). Well, that technology came from an L.A.

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