Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Entrepreneur examples include Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, who turned a new search technology into a tool that most of us couldn’t live without.

Examples 76

Examples Startup Coach Patents 76

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. We were crowd sourcing artists and design.

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2013

Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Entrepreneur examples include Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, who turned a new search technology into a tool that most of us couldn’t live without.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Examples Ideas 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - Google suddenly makes your product category free). - you may hit unexpected bumps in the road yourself making the next round tough.

Startup 319

Startup Venture Capital Capital Competition 319

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Since first launching in 2008, Dreamit has received thousands of applications – heck, I’ve personally reviewed thousands of applications in the not quite three years since joining Dreamit. I Googled that claim and didn’t find anything. Applications so bad that I threw up a little in my mouth. Consider this a self-defense essay.

Tips 70

Tips Startup Statistics Metrics 70

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

Invest 152

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2012

Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Entrepreneur examples include Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, who turned a new search technology into a tool that most of us couldn’t live without.

Startup 104

Startup Examples Entrepreneur Ideas 104

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

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? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# And time is the enemy of all deals so start sooner rather than later, as anybody who was planning to raise in October 2008 will tell you. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe that.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV. Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world. The ideation behind Coincident.TV

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. Post 2008, LPs abhor illiquidity. Consumers and you and I have been trained by Google and Amazon on expectations. With this fund, we do not have a cap limit on late stage investments.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so.

Venture Capital 308

Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► 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. By Frank Addante Since Googles announcement of their decision to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Back at that time, I had people ask my--why would I ever want to read what other people are writing, isn't that what professional authors and journalists are for? We sold it in July of 2008, to Expedia. It was user generated content for travel, but back in 1999, before we'd really seen the movement toward user generated content.

Content 204

Content Startup Sites Manhattan Beach 204

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We have thirteen-plus companies which have gone from inception to selling for North of a billion dollars, including the last company we sold, in October of 2008, BillMeLater, which we sold to eBay for a billion dollars. We'll even write a half a million check. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. That as unhealthy.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. What kind of writing and writers are you targeting? People can write comments and rate publishers, which we vet very carefully.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Kanye West.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. That was written in September 2008. When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld.

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. It is open also in the same way that Google was open in its early days. Google started as a place where you came to be taken via links to other people’s websites.

Social Media 274

Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. Communicating with the developers who write code. His Tenure at Microsoft.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes. 301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37