Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. Talking about changing the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. In this short 90-second clip Jeff discusses “Investor / Market Fit” How VCs Think About Funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Nobody should celebrate, cheer or shout, “it’s about time.” ” This is about 336 people whose lives are altered and need to begin looking for work, saying goodbye to friends & colleagues and go on that journey of transition that most people dread. I put up this slide as part of my discussion. Does this suck?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. I talk about it often including in my own personal narrative. Everything I learned about startups I learned by making mistakes at my first one.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general. Marketing maniac. About my company(s): [link].

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We spoke with CEO Bryan Cheung to learn more about LifeRay, and how it grew from a church basement and open source to $100M+ in revenues, without ever taking outside capital. It's really just about being able to make fixes and updates, without introducing new features. What is LifeRay? Finally, what's next on the horizon for you?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Total disruption on the funding market? I doubt it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. Instead, we were going linear, and free, so we just took the market. We were building it about a year before we launched.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

We caught up with Howard to hear about what Gamzee is all about, and where he thinks the next big thing in games is going to be. What is Gamzee all about? I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. How fast do you think the market for HTML5 games will develop?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. I now make my students draw Osterwalder’s canvas as the organizing way to think about your hypothesis.”.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

We caught up with Uygur--who has had his own show on Sirius Satellite Radio, hosted MSNBC Live, and currently has his own show on Current TV--to learn more about The Young Turks, his online efforts, and his views on how media is shifting to the Internet. We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25 billion views.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In 2005, Alan McCann created a graphic representation of the Method: Note that Allan changed the title of the risks from technology-execution-market-production to investment-marketing-execution-development. As for listed elements, a medical device startup might replace “marketing risk” with “FDA approvals risk.”.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. What did you find most difficult about this transition and what do you wish you had handled differently. "Two Also, we should have segmented our customers sooner and narrowed our market segment (earlier)."

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. . So it was about in the 2004 timeframe that I made my first trip to Santa Barbara. had a very different philosophy about affiliate marketing than Be Free. I was convinced that my passion was sports marketing.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot. Tell us about what your business is nowadays? At the time, when we were an agency, it was quite a crowded market. That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. I think being knowledgeable about your sector can be important. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. That’s what he knows best.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We talked with Richard about NordicEye's $30M fund, its interests in Los Angeles, and why a Nordic venture capital firm has its eyes on Southern California's technology startups. What's wonderful about this new fund, is we literally started in April of 2017. The issue there is you're not hearing about it until too late.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We caught up with Gregg Spiridellis, one of the founders of JibJab, to hear about Storybots. First, to catch up our readers on JibJab, can you quickly talk about where the company is nowadays and the whole greeting card business? Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Can you talk about that?

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

We spoke with Arjan Shutte about the investment firm and its interest in financial startups, and why it moved from New York. Since coming here, we''re actually really excited about how many exciting financial technology startups we have run across, which is a lot more than we originally thought. How did you end up in Los Angeles?

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Tech.Co

JUNE 7, 2017

With this expectation, you must imagine how hard a marketer or programmer should concentrate to combat distractions. In a 2005 study , researchers examined the effects of things like flexible use of workspace on job productivity and team cohesion. Read more about building a productive office environment at Tech.Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. What IS relevant about the size of a VC’s fund?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

How did the idea for the company come about? What's unique about us, is that there haven't been modern, commercial technology which companies could subscribe to an implement in their corporate environment. Tim O'Neal: I've been a computer junkie and geek since I was a gid. The concept of a community grid is not a new one.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down&# rather than following the masses toward the exit door. I think being knowledgeable about your sector can be important. That’s what he knows best.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. What's Morphlabs?

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? WE're providing a really affordable replacement for the standard banner, and which is counter to what the market is doing right now. You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. They could provide more detailed information about the content producers or the shows. The folks over at Blip.tv It’s got a fresh clean look.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. Stay Tuned.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. As the desk-based Internet emerged it was initially sold through telecom carriers (after players like AOL and EarthLink innovated the market). I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question.

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