SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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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. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

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APRIL 13, 2011

“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 1, 2008

“California is the birthplace of the information technology revolution and the home of the companies that are creating the future course of our information rich society. Not true so much anymore, but from a standpoint of innovation in the technology sector, California continues to flourish. While the growth of Web 2.0

AeA 40

AeA CIO Web 2.0 Technology 40

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." It proposed to fund advertising to encourage young Americans to enter the science and technology workforce. government.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Cash will continue to become less relevant in 10 years as electronic & mobile commerce continue to proliferate and new technologies like NFC drive change. I’m long on payment technologies. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. tl;dr summary.

Marketing 305

Marketing Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 305