Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! VentureNet 2009 (www.venturenet.org) - October 7, Costa Mesa. Advertisers. The right people.
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socalTECH
OCTOBER 30, 2009
The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops. www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2015
There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. My general advice is to do less.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. Many VCs simply wait for referrals to come to them via email or introductions they get at conferences or demo days. Of the 106 judges who preceded her 105 of them were men (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. And hard for me to imagine the Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger weren’t instrumental mentors to David. The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 And reinventing itself.
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 31, 2011
We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly I’d personally heard of Startup Weekend back when it got started in 2007 out in Boulder but only attended my first Startup Weekend in late 2009.
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