Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

Venture Capital 225

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 -- Business Networking and Relationship Building. There are an increasing number of social networking tools like Linked In, Face book, Plaxo, that are bringing together colleagues, friends, professionals and businesses in an increasingly complex web of connections. Techbizconnection. The concept of ?Networking?

Networking 100

Networking TechBiz Social Network Web 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. provides a strategically significant opportunity to make media and business run better.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) I'll list three, not necessarily in order. (1)

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. Uncertainty surrounding this year’s presidential election has kept U.S.

Research 40

Research Activity Capital Funding 40

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today.

Web 200

Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

Venture Capital 334

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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. Volume has no doubt picked up at active firms. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.). Because you have multiple forces at work.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. in 2009 the market was completely constipated as investors focused on triage. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). We’ll re-compare notes then.

Invest 299

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

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. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The whole Journey app building experience takes place inside your web browser, so there’s no software to install. While Journey has launched now in mid-2012, it is the result of technology that we have been building and deploying in production since 2009, when Embark Mobile was founded. How does it work? When was it launched?

Mobile 65

Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. First - let me say what I consider to be a good audience - interesting people.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking CTO Coach Angel 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Where I use the Discussion Group: * Ive not been very active in the discussion group on particular topics. There has certainly been a storm of activity over this question. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away. Join in conversations with customers who are already shaping brand perception and sharing their ideas and opinions on the Web.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Startup Networking 91

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Recycling Waste Platform. Problem She is Solving.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. Do fewer structured activities. You could just outspend.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. Herewith, in no particular order: 1. Concentrate on landing a lead.

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Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. Geography - Rincon is now very active in the Bay Area.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Listing an item is free and takes 60 seconds or less, via web or mobile. The Tradesy Trust Promise: Sellers are paid only once they’ve shipped their items, and their shipping tracking number is activated. Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace where women buy and sell new and gently used apparel and accessories. How It Works.

Pricing 71

Pricing Mobile Sales Sites 71

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Prior to joining FM in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space. Red Bull gives wings to people who want to be mentally and physically active and have a zest for life. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC. NewTek Inc.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. You need to take care of errors yourself.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly I don't want to see any more of you with crappy business guys ruining your great ideas, ok? Information Arbitrage by Roger Ehrenberg.

CTO Coach 28

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. We were doing this one product called “Small Business Hires”, similar to the employer app we launched today, all web-based. I am very active in mentoring women and minorities. Do you have a web component of Proven? My dad got cancer.

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Prior to joining FM in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space. Red Bull gives wings to people who want to be mentally and physically active and have a zest for life. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC. NewTek Inc.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Blogging Startup Venture Capital 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

Guide 69

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There must have been some reasons the stations did not embrace the platform, because--from what I gathered--there were not a lot of stations actively participating in the system. Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. Sellers also have to have a win.

Google 124

Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Advertising 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Advertising Web Design Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Competition Venture Capital Advertising 40