Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. That was back in 2007, when we started. What is RxVantage?

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

For instance, at Rincon Venture Partners , we typically do not invest in consumer facing companies. Although the venture's journey is not completed, we are very pleased that we deviated from our traditional b-to-b SaaS focus. In a similar fashion, some old-school investors attempt to push other investors out of their deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The industry did that in 2007.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

At the same time, we made it clear that we were flattered by their interest and that we were happy to continue our discussions and further explore if a reasonable deal could be crafted. Senior management was more concerned with ensuring a cultural fit with our acquirer, rather than squeezing the last dollar out of the deal. Do Nothing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company. They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy.

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Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

For instance, when a venture capital partner votes for a follow-on investment in exchange for the future support of one of her investments, idea cronyism is at work. Record companies evaluated songs based upon a variety of informal means, such as the Old Gray Whistle Test. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us. I see you were at Gluecode, and also were in the venture world at Mission Ventures--can you talk about how you've bootstrapped this firm and how it compares?

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

However, his actions indicate that the cultural clash between the two companies was the real reason a deal was never consummated. When a BDC lacks information, a small company can add tremendous value to the relationship and thus exercise significant influence over the terms of the partnership. Copyright © 2007-10 by J.

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IBM IBM Software Review Custom 124

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness. Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Most sites don’t have to deal with this so I’ll stop here! December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4).

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Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Startup Blogging Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. They controlled distribution to the masses. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. All of these are false.

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Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We shared information about building sales teams. If you’re reading this you’ll now likely know that I became a VC in 2007 with what is now called Upfront Ventures. Both have done an amazing job of defining themselves in venture in a short period of time. So many people I now know were there.

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SaaS Venture Capital Conference Technical Review 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. I had found my industry and a deal I really liked in it.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343