Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. What's the story behind GOGII?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

We had the chance to speak with William Volk , Chief Creative Officer of Playscreen (www.playscreen.com), who talked how his company is looking to crack the code with Crickler 2: Daily Word Puzzle , which is among the most popular puzzle games on iTunes, and recently number one in free educational games. stars, mostly five star reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Consumer approach to software for business users. Tempus Fugit.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Is this hardware, software, a combination of both? Dr. Ramin Sadr: We had to innovate, in everything from the antenna devices, to RF markers, to DSP hardware, and HDL with our DSP and ASIC components--all the way to our DSP real-time software and our protocols. We have fifteen Ph.D.s READ MORE>>

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. magazine and the LA Business Journal. billion in shares. jebbdykstra99.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

In rare cases when a non-bot tries to participate in Twitter, the uber-bot [type T] prevents the whole bot network from negative impacts by serving a 503 error to the homunculus’ browser. This malicious piece of code doesn’t obey robots.txt, and doesn’t cache results. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.

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Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

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MARCH 22, 2010

Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. Do not equate that with them giving you glowing reviews – you have to earn that. First, understand their deadlines.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. L90 was the premier advertising network on the Internet. Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person. Silly, right?

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