Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who find a new marketplace or niche – or how to reach the mass market in new ways. It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The firm, in an update email, said that it's challenge today is "raising sufficient capital to compete in the modern automotive market." Aptera said it is "working to secure the capital necessary to deliver the volume and quality to move the market." READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

It was an Internet CEO roundtable in early 2000 (almost a year before the crash of the stock market) where it became obvious before the public was aware, that the bubble was just beginning to burst for such tech businesses. Every leader has stories to tell.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2010

Ventures , the Internet marketing firm headed by BetterPPC's Ben Padnos , has sued NBC Universal over a failed agreement to buy domains Women.com and Women.net from NBC Universal via domain name firm Sedo. submitted an email chain which shows the acceptance of Padnos' offer by Sedo. As evidence, DONE!

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

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. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

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 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

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. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2009

The privately held firm said that during 2008, it grew it revenues by 63 percent. mobileStorm provides SMS, text-messaging, and email marketing services to companies as American Idol, Qantas Airways, and Carl's Jr. The firm did not disclose details of its finances, or further detail what drove its fourth quarter results.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. Vic Caretti: When I started this in 2008, I didn't even look at the business model. It's just grown on its own.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. And honestly I love technology products and if you don’t try the newest stuff you’ll wake up an old person emailing from your Hotmail account with links to MapQuest over your dial-up AOL plan. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. That’s how we do business at Make It Work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. As a market we seem to be incapable of temperance. That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. It’s marketing. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

Carol Hall and I started our business Absentminded in 2008, making iPhone applications. In the course of doing that, we realized there was this market opportunity, and set out to create the ad network. Jennifer Noonan: The application market is very crowded, and both sides of the coin are trying to figure out how to make it work.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Once the call is over, a user can share their special moment with friends and family on Facebook & Twitter, or over email and SMS. With great Santa Art, the Elves have been working on this app ever since the App Store opened in 2008. The post Say Hello Santa! |

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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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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. Finally, what's next on your plate?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly? Market downturn – We all know that investors move in herds. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. Short answer – yes.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. We come from ten years of marekting experience, running marketing for W Hotels. In 2008, we built applications for musicians Travis Barker and DJ-AM, which provided a mixtape in exchange for a tweet. What is PromoJam?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Once a campaign has been created, there's some level of marketing and call to action, which can be through traditional media, or the web. Daniel Scalisi: I've been in the mobile market for fifteen years. What's the attraction of the mobile market, and why the quick update of your solutions? How is the company backed?

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. That one client, plus a need in the market really drove the product. Jimmy Hendricks: One, is we were one of the first to market.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Market Tested - The night before their recording date, the Kingsmen performed the song for an hour and a half (yes, a 90-minute version of the song) at a small club. This field test with their target market solidified the band's desire to record and release the song. Doomed Product Development. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. It turned out to be fortuitous timing, we closed the round in literally, late, late, late 2008. Who knew then that things would get so shaky.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

However, mobile devices have not only revolutionized the world of the consumer--they've also made inroads into the corporate market, changing how companies provide access to important information and data to their partners and employees. We founded the company in 2008, inspired by and around the first iPhone.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

In 2008, I was getting lots of requests from people wanting iPhone applications, but no one wanted to spend the $50,000 to $100,000 needed to build something from scratch, or spend the six months it would take. There are lots of tools for an app to market itself. How did this all come about? I ran it for almost a decade.

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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.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

WePay was founded in 2008 by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in 2008 but launched publicly in March 2010. Rich oversees the company’s product and marketing effort. Since then our product has shifted to serving individuals, small businesses, and non-profits.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Last week Wednesday Groupon world’s largest daily deal company launched its own payment system dubbed Groupon Payments , adding competition to the field Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Square were already competing for market share. Simplest and Lowest Cost Option. Groupon said it launched the system due to customer demands. “In

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 It is possible to submit a plan through email but it is not the best approach. Then they consider if it is a big enough market. Howard gives an example of an entrepreneur wildly overstating a market size. million and opened another office in San Francisco.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Enter ShoeDazzle.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

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. For us, that benefited Telesign as well, because the market was catching up to what we were offering. Telesign, slowly over the years, became the one that really took off.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. Then, for the last seven quarters, we embarked on our strategy of moving into the commercial market, and were quite successful there. But, every market is different. Our headquarters remains in Los Angeles in the Howard Hughes center.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. We don't charge for markets, but what we do charge for is physical printing and submissions. and it includes tracking.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. Most people don’t want to go through the brain damage to convince seller one that the market has changed. I looked up the funding details on Crunchbase and noticed that they closed a big round in March 2008 (e.g.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. The software that BlackLine builds and markets, helps people with the close process, instead of doing it in Excel. However, we found that it's a hard market to break into. all part of the task manager module.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. Billy Fried: We first tested it in California, which was our launch market a year and a half ago. In January of 2008, we launched CalActive , which we thought might be a regional business. Bill Fried: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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