Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Signal and Miragen will host a conference call this morning to discuss the merger. Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later. That’ll leave the combined company with over $50 million in cash at the deal’s closing.

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Research Conference Company Companies 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 Everybody always thinks they can do your job because they’re doing the hard work while you get to fly off to conference, speak with the press, go to fancy board meetings & dinners. I create videos.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. 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. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

I know lots of people think they don't have time for that, but there are those moments when you're in a coffee shop with twenty minutes of free time, or when you're plane delayed, or even if you're at a networking event or conference, and you are curious who is around you. And who knows, they might be a really good fit.

Electronic Arts 236

Electronic Arts Startup Mobile West Los Angeles 236

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason Nazar: Legal contracts, business forms and templates, conference presentations, financial models, research reports, any kind of professional content that you have which you use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. We started a year and a half ago by putting out a blog post, because I had people asking me for help on their business.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences. Mark Suster – GRP Partners Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo.

Blogging 219

Blogging Venture Capital Startup Social Media 219

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Second, Congress has passed the related America COMPETES Act of 2007, where COMPETES is (believe it or not) an acronym for Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science. Sylvester Reyes (D-TX), which is the STEM Promotion Act of 2007. You can affect this process. 4151 introduced by Rep.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Last week I attended the ad:Tech conference in my hometown, Chicago. ► October (1) New Video! .

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. Immediately following the closing of the round I flew out to a big real estate conference in France to meet with prospective customers. At least not externally.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

Startup 40

Startup Technical Review Software Review Advertising 40