Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Media relationships. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 9, 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 -- "Hollywood 2.0 Panel" Scripped.com and the UCLA Anderson School of Management Entrepreneurs Association. Other LA-Area media entrepreneurs will also be invited to the event. Panel includes Keith Richman, Alex Albrecht and Chris Jacquemin. See [link].

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Thursday, December 17, 2009 -- South Bay Tech Group Happy Hour. Strengthen your "Starbucks network" close to home by getting to know neighbors who are involved in the technology and media industry in the South Bay.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- South Bay Tech Group Happy Hour. Strengthen your "Starbucks network" close to home by getting to know neighbors who are involved in the technology and media industry in the South Bay.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Thursday, October 15, 2009 -- South Bay Tech Group Happy Hour. Strengthen your "Starbucks network" close to home by getting to know neighbors who are involved in the technology and media industry in the South Bay.

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Hermosa Beach Redondo Beach El Segundo Manhattan Beach 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009 -- South Bay Tech Group Happy Hour. Strengthen your "Starbucks network" close to home by getting to know neighbors who are involved in the technology and media industry in the South Bay.

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Hermosa Beach Redondo Beach El Segundo Manhattan Beach 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. social media, and everything else.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 18, 2009

Friday, July 24, 2009 -- FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech. FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH convenes the world's top technology and media thinkers, doers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries. The main focus: the way emerging technologies and tech entrepreneurs are solving problems and creating opportunities. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 17, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009 -- FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech. FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH convenes the world's top technology and media thinkers, doers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries. The main focus: the way emerging technologies and tech entrepreneurs are solving problems and creating opportunities. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 16, 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 -- FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech. FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH convenes the world's top technology and media thinkers, doers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries. The main focus: the way emerging technologies and tech entrepreneurs are solving problems and creating opportunities. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 9, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009 -- Common Mistakes Before Starting a New Business. A Town Hall hosted by Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc, aimed at contributing to the Los Angeles Technology Scene by bringing together various entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, social media experts, and professionals in the technology field.

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Social Media Los Angeles Media Entrepreneur 100

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MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. But VC is like congress. hours / day.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Thursday, October 8, 2009 -- VC in the OC. Starting from a small base of enthusiastic users, the service has rapidly risen to prominence in the media. Come hear from this highly successful and influential evangelist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and thought leader. Keynote by Guy Kawasaki. See [link] (more).

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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. He’s also candid, humble and helpful.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 -- What's Ahead for the Green Economy?, SPEAKER:John Davies, Vice President, Green Biz Intelligence at Greener World Media John is an experienced entrepreneur and innovator who has applied his business and management skills to create new enterprises as well as improve the operations of existing businesses.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. In 2009, I was convinced the time was right.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. At Archer we are focused on working with southern California's best entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to build disruptive new businesses.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 12, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 -- Bootstrapping Your Start-up: Lessons Learned from Building a Business During a Recession. Learn how one entrepreneur built a successful business during a recessionary environment. MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Building a business is challenging enough during times of economic expansion.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -- The Workshop: Get Funded in One Day (Dealmaker LA). Brought to you by the team who produces Startonomics and Dealmaker LA, this hands-on "workshop-style" event will allow entrepreneurs to drill down on the key issues we face when laying the foundation to build and fund their company.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

We had a bunch of media come out to our school and publicize Kenya Dream.” The media exposure also led to a strengthened relationship with the Rotary Club as well as the school and community. As made clear in Personal Pitch , Entrepreneurs must pull Donors into their orbit figuratively – non-profits have to do so literally.

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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 Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- LAVA Venture Awards Dinner. See [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game. The market is moving back up, but slowly.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. 4) eMarketer.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. 5 years ago. None have exited. That’s normal.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. on April 24, 2009. Southern California's high tech news and companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

“As corny as it sounds, Tony Hsieh is a seller of dreams,” said Sarah Evans, founder of PR firm Sevans Strategy and social media venture FAVES + CO. “So So many thinkers, developers and entrepreneurs want to bring their idea to life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, There are tools and solutions needed to handle Social Media 1.0,

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. Gyroscope is in double-dog secret stealth mode right now so I’ll focus more on the entrepreneur.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

So you can see that Entrepreneur (60) LinkedIn (15) Metrics (16) SEO (15) Company (141) are all considered highly relevant to the term "startup." You can see that he talks about: Marketing , Metrics , Customer and Social Media more than most. As the site runs, it will get better at finding great content.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. The impact hits VCs in an immediate way that most entrepreneurs don’t realize. But I can tell you from first-hand experience it was a real issue in 2008-2009 and the psychology persisted into 2010-11.

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