SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Full Disclosure: Matt works for CitizenNet.)

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Couldn’t be helped. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. Thank you @eminutes. . Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

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MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today we’re online 3.1

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. 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. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

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. most Seed or A round deals will be done by an investor in your region so that should help you to focus. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Right for my stage? Not so much.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s help get their funding get finalized or the company sold if it’s already in play. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. And Social. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Yesterday was a Monday.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

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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). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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