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DECEMBER 27, 2018
Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Here in LA we continue to be excited about the growth of the startup ecosystem and the quality of the companies here.
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JUNE 22, 2011
This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. If you have a venture you believe in and you are showing good growth traction, it's all about growth not profitability.
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APRIL 17, 2012
Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach?” Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.
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JULY 1, 2010
Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. They say that the best entrepreneurs are those who fundamentally want to solve problems or change industries. But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Actually, I’ve done this!
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. overvalued) and sell when the fall precipitously.
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