article thumbnail

Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. Social networking sites, and even the general enterprise has need for this.

article thumbnail

Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

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. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit. Page 3: Competition.

article thumbnail

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Her patented product, Swiggies (wrist water bottles), have been a NASDAQ product of the year semi-finalist and are currently sold in 24 countries. Otis Chandler – Founder and CEO of Goodreads.