Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. they released a new 2.0

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305