socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

One of them is online music events site Loudvine (www.loudvine.com), which was co-founded by Vic Caretti , who gave us the scoop on what the site is all about. The genesis of this, is it's all about the music. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. What is Loudvine? Vic Caretti: It's pretty simple.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

At the end of 2008, near the bottom of the debt bubble collapse, the overall stock market had dropped about 50%. Email readers, continue here…] How Long Does It Take to Sell a Company?

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JUNE 1, 2011

I say “struggle to overcome&# because I care about young people entering our industry with a set of realistic expectations about what “normal&# is. years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. So which is it? Feast or famine?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 15, 2010

Join us for an enlightening evening as two teams of researchers talk about their projects under the Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative. Email gbelansky@caltech.edu.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. We failed because Apple invented the iPad and the Genius Bar.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Back then there were “email forwards.” This got passed around on email from person to person and became so popular it appeared on the Today Show where Jonah (admittedly not an expert in global factory conditions) appeared with Katie Couric and Nike’s head of global PR and debated sweatshops. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. How long has Bccthis been around?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 16, 2010

Basically, don’t be cavalier about rescheduling meetings. The meeting was set for Wednesday, May 8th 2008 at 11am. The day before the conference I thought about rescheduling this meeting but then thought, “oh, well. Give reflection to what inconvenience you may be causing. Let me give you an example.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. Our goal and promise to consumers is to let them stay connected to all of the video they care about online, regardless of where it comes from, on any device. What is Frequency? Blair Harrison: Frequency is an Internet video service.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. It was a very manual process. How are you funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I loved every moment of our discussion other than the video angle, which I think I’ll be more particular about in the future. In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Juno provided a free email service. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’. Many of us are locked in the daily grind of our business, and default to managing events and reacting to incoming stimuli, such as emails and internal requests for assistance.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2010

Colin moved back to his home town of Boston before I returned to the US and unfortunately he got divorced from his wife, an Egyptian national, in 2008. If you know any way to help (friends in government or any other ways you could recommend) please email me. My email address is my Twitter handle at Gmail.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I’ll give Sam Altman the last quote from the article , YCombinator also warns young entrepreneurs about taking on too much, too fast. “We Dan Primack talks about the “ other angel problem ,” which is that too few angels get full information rights and are therefore investing in companies they have little information about.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

I had started keeping a personal blog (on Blogger) about family life just for my friends and family and I realized how hard it was to get even my closest family members to remember to visit there to see updated photos of the kids. For me, the most sustainable are newsletter subscribers because I can deliver it right to your email box.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company. Our software lets non-technical folks make an app in about an hour. How did this all come about? Can you talk a bit about how your app development tools work? It's all about socialization of content, display of content, and community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. If you haven’t read my post about that, you should. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” We had people hearing through the grapevine that we were about to raise money and new investors started calling us to get in on the deal. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. Any deal. True story.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Talk about Telesign and what you do? Telesign was the first thing we were working on, but there were a bunch of different little businesses we started all about the same time. We got a relatively large client in 2008, after three years of chugging along, and that's when we knew that was the business we should be focusing on.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We spoke with Matt Kumin , the company's founder and CEO--who was formerly an executive at Edmunds.com--to learn about the company's products. What's your background, and what is PublishThis all about? I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. We had the idea, is how about we sell that content to brands, who can use that for social updates. What is PromoJam?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

For some perspective on the industry, as well as to learn more about the company, we spoke with Loren Bendele , CEO of Los Angeles-based Savings.com (www.savings.com). First, for people who aren't familiar with the site, talk about what you offer to consumers? We had great growth, fueled a little by the downturn in the economy in 2008.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

After initially selling about 500 copies, a Boston DJ played Louie, Louie as the "Worst Record Of The Week." id’s next game, DOOM, was created by a slightly larger team of approximately a dozen engineers, at a cost of about $200,000. Experts Were Wrong - The song's big break was the result of an unintended consequence. Lean To Stout.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

What are you all about? We spent the last few years building our advertising ad serving platform, and launched about two months ago. Carol Hall and I started our business Absentminded in 2008, making iPhone applications. Were the regulations about advertising to children difficult to handle for you?

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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. What is Deal Current? We were crowd sourcing artists and design.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We caught up with Quinton Alsbury , president and co-founder of the company, to learn more about what Roambi is doing for enterprises, and where it's going. For those not familiar with Roambi, can you tell us about the product? We founded the company in 2008, inspired by and around the first iPhone.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

We spoke with Bryce Maddock , founder of TaskUs, about the company and how it has been providing the manpower behind a lot of LA''s technology startups. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We spoke to Daniel last week to learn more about his firm. What's your startup all about? Although they'd been around for three years and run out of money, we noticed in 2008 that mobile donations reached a record in the U.S. Email is becoming ineffective, and by 2011 there will be three times more smart phones than computers.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. in a Series A venture round.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. This lasted from about 2001-2004. To get to know more about how Mike Hirshland thinks make sure to watch a bit of the interview. Venture Financings we Discussed.

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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. But VC is like congress.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. Enter the famous Sequoia “RIP Good Times” presentation and Ron Conway’s publicly leaked emails calling for big slashes in burn rates. So we have almost no triage problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

We also rightly have deep anxiety about the election results on Tuesday. There are too many to mention but I’ve noticed them all on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and people who have emailed or texted me. I asked him what motivated him and he told me, “I started it in 2008 as a project with my daughter helping canvass for Obama.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

When I told Larry Bock in an email about four months ago that I had been diagnosed with cancer, the renowned San Diego life sciences investor asked if he might see me at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center. In another email exchange a month later, he wrote, “I am too weak to take on any new activities.”. Larry Bock.

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