Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. I think that’s what people actually like about it. A bit like a blog that is put out regularly but not overly edited or self-conscious about word choices or typos. Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Sales – Many publishers, including Grit, encouraged newspaper boys to create new routes and expand existing ones by aggressively selling subscriptions to non-subscribers. This pay-per-newspaper formula directly rewarded the children’s sales efforts and sparked a life-long entrepreneurial fire in generations of newspaper boys.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. The easiest way to think about it is that we're like the Priceline for the secondary ticket market. Describe SaveFans and what it does?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. Example here: [link]. Interesting to hear how you think about this.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

We talked with Rob Reed, the firm's founder and CEO, about the firm, his experience with AngelList, and where the firm goes next. How did the company come about? Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Whats your prior experience?

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Jimmy Hendricks about where Deal Current fits into the industry, and how the company grew out of a need of a client. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. What IS relevant about the size of a VC’s fund?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects. Today, everyone cares about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Time will tell.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. The obvious thing that investors think about is making a financial return on the investment they made in your company. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

I’m not talk about the age old debate amongst investors whether you back entrepreneurs, markets or products (or as people like to hedge – product / market fit). Today’s post is about my investment thesis. He was telling me about a deal he had done. I had an offer to sell my company to Salesforce.com in 2007.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

We recently ran into Page Howe , the Chief Engagement Officer for the.LA (www.la) domain name extension, who sat down with us and told us about why he's out making the rounds with community groups and events, promoting the use of.LA domain name, and we caught up with him to hear more about why he things everyone should get their own.LA

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Another example.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. Think about it.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. Mike Mothner: The key is, we have been selective about who we work with.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

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. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about. They helped Overture become smarter about what type of ads to serve. For example, one time Mike went to David Liu, CEO of The Knot, and said ‘I know your wedding pages are very valuable. We can do better. How is that unique?

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

For example, only qualified institutional or accredited, sophisticated buyers are allowed on the bulletin boards. Can you talk about a bit about BrightHouse, and how this company came out of that incubation effort? Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. Take for example Accel.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

We spoke with John Mudge , CEO of iBN Sports (www.ibnsports.com), to learn more about the Lake Forest-based company's success in making content pay on the Internet, and how his company's relationship as one of YouTube's Premium Channels is helping with that effort. What is IBN Sports? It's a combination of revenue models.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. TechCrunch.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. Plus, holiday e-commerce sales are widely expected to continue rising in 2015.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We spoke with Derrick Oien, president and co-founder of the firm, about the company's mobile social networking applications, as well as about his view on penetrating the mobile carriers. A good example of what we do is, you can open a WAP browser on your phone and go to m.myspace.com, which is perfectly fiîe.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Let's talk about the technology first, and how it works? We had known about the company, going back to when we were all at Pentadyne, and in 2007 we entered into a license from the group of people who had acquired those designs. Photo courtesy KTSi: left, Dick Newark, middle, Rudy Lautz, right, Chandler Williamson).

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales. Such actions include sales, trials, leads, downloads, etc.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

You want to be able to target these buckets--for example, an advertiser like Warner Brothers might want to promote their Batman film and show a trailer to a user that fits a certain profile. The platforms will be using it to serve ads into their ecosystem, essentially allowing their ad sales teams to sell into their impressions.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

You want to be able to target these buckets--for example, an advertiser like Warner Brothers might want to promote their Batman film and show a trailer to a user that fits a certain profile. The platforms will be using it to serve ads into their ecosystem, essentially allowing their ad sales teams to sell into their impressions.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

We sat down and spoke with Milo Sindell, one of the founders of the firm, to learn more about how the firm came about and what it's trying to accomplish. The second example, is you can publish it in public. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works? What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Or more specifically, (with its commercial viable surname), we speak about the explosion of “EDM” (electronic dance music) and its dual role both a unifier of the hundreds of sub-genres electronic dance music and simplifier of the not so subtle nuances of these different sounds. Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. As featured in technology and news publications: Are you new? Make sense?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

They will interpret affable and friendly actions as a transparent sales ploy. One need look no further for an prototypical example of a Bro than the Wizard in Frank Baum’s, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Think about it Bro. _. You can learn more about his experiences at johngreathouse.com _. — Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 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! Examples: B2C Example (for an eBay user): 1. B2B Example (for a StrongMail user): 1.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 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! For example, Starting Point’s (Startup 1.0) What about your friends? Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 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! ► October (1) New Video! . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

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