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JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Portugal was hit hard by the global financial crash of 2008. The city is viewed so favourably as a hotpot of tech talent that it was chosen to host this year’s Web Summit for the second year in a row. Lisbon continues to impress young entrepreneurs looking to launch a business with all it has to offer.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. It's a simple web service, where a customer can log in and can simply create and deploy any level of mobile donation or messaging campaign. I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have started five companies.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of the most difficult things to do as a first time entrepreneur is to get to know the investors you might be working with if you accept money. He got into the industry through the same traits required for entrepreneurs – persistence & resiliency. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Read more: TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. With a focus on impact investing, their efforts to drive social change are based on three key pillars: revolutionizing philanthropy, unleashing entrepreneurs and igniting civic engagement. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. inspired with entrepreneur Aaron Ross at our next meeting, on July 28th in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. 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. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

Scott Dudelson: Swagbucks.com has been around since February of 2008. However, once you build the trust and goodwill of your users, and buzz grows around the web, it becomes much easier. That mutated into us thinking why not have our own, central portal based on Swagbucks, which is where Swagbucks.com came along.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot. Summary version?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

It ran in April of 2008. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. They can contribute content, contribute their edits, remix video, work together as groups, and then send that content across the web to Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, or their own website. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

Carol Hall and I started our business Absentminded in 2008, making iPhone applications. We''ll go on to Android next, and potentially also move to the web, towards the convergence of where girls are. entrepreneur startup interview kids children coppa girl mobigirlmedia advertise female advertising mobile media mobigirl'

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I'm constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. What's the story behind Ranker? Thanks, and good luck!

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. It's all about the entrepreneur. Post 2008, LPs abhor illiquidity.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. Yet nearly any entrepreneur who has an idea that other people aren’t doing will tell you that it’s hard to get investors excited. Same with VCs.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2013

Needless to say, your chances of bumping into Robert Scoble on 6th Street to show him your beta are much slimmer than in 2008 when there were only 9,000 registered attendees. In total, the TechZulu Trend Lounge featured 30+ tech entrepreneurs. Aaron Gustafson, Adaptive Web Design. Early products received meaningful feedback.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We closed our fund in August of 2008. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem. What do you invest in?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson , founder of Lunch.com, is an experience entrepreneur, who sold his last firm, VirtualTourist.com , to Expedia. Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. We sold it in July of 2008, to Expedia.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

That results in huge savings--up to 75 percent--in price, and you can also do it all in about ten minutes, because we've integrated directly with your course schedule, and filtered through the entire web simultaneously. How did you come up with the web site? Had you thought you'd be an entrepreneur when you were in college?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time). ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today we’re online 3.1 And the future?

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Hire Entrepreneurs! Hire Entrepreneurs! ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 5:02 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

March 14, 2007 10:47 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 7:01 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 8:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

With over 15,000 square-feet of space, the facility has room for dozens of startup teams, and already houses Industry, a Web-based professional networking and job market for the hospitality industry, and the San Diego office of OurCrowd, the Israeli crowdfunding platform. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 6:56 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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