SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Introduction to Perl, Learn to Read Perl. When you set out to learn a new language, do you start out by writing an essay? So why try to learn to program or write test scripts that way? Of course not!

Writing 100

Writing Education Course Resource 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009 -- SoCalBio Workshop on Accessing SBIR/STTR Funding for Research. Attend this workshop to sharpen your grant-writing skills and learn how to tap various government funding opportunities from such sources as the NIH, NSF, DoD and Energy Department, to support your RandD efforts. See [link] (more).

Research 100

Research Funding Writing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Thursday, October 15, 2009 -- Working with Traditional and Social Media. Achieve Pitch Writing Success. This is an interactive public relations workshop focused on both traditional and social media. You will rotate in groups covering these four topics: 1.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Journal Writing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 31, 2009

Thursday, April 2, 2009 -- iPhone Programming. ll learn how to use the iPhone OS SDK, how to use Xcode to write Objective-C code, how to use Interface Builder to lay out your user-interface, how to use the Debugger, and even how to download your completed application to a iPhone or iPod Touch.

Writing 100

Writing Develop Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 17, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009 -- FundingPost's SoCal Angel and Venture Conference. At our next event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing:How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

SoCal 100

SoCal Southern California Conference Angel 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009 -- "Accessing Government Funding for Research: Partnering for Success in Challenging Economic Times" Southern California Biomedical Council. Numerous U.S. Such grants offer non-dilutive funding, confer validation from peers, and provide invaluable feedback from experts. See [link] (more).

Research 100

Research Funding Southern California Writing 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2009

If you search for her (as of July 10, 2009 at 5:45pm) you will get no result and the text, “did you mean Amanda Choong?&#. And write a short bio about yourself. It takes a while (a day or more) to get your name propagated in Twitter’s search index. Be patient – it will appear. First is Amanda Coolong of TechZulu.

Tips 216

Tips Social Media Social Network Santa Monica 216

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

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. I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences.

Conference 150

Conference Slides Social Media Summary 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts.

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. Minimum Viable Product: a guide , Lessons Learned, Eric Ries, August 3, 2009 10 examples of minimum viable products Minimum Viable Product revisited – the MVP Curve? So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP.

Develop 354

Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I’m going to write a pure admiration piece. Yes, I still used a Blackberry in 2009. Many of the articles I’ve read about him over the last several years have a listing of his biggest successes – mostly Uber – and a tinge of cynicism about his close connections with celebrities or self promotion. Not this one.

Startup 150

Startup Conference Ideas Writing 150

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. All of 2009 was figuring out what people want.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

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MARCH 3, 2012

I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. I decided to write a $2+ million check along with my co-investor who offered $750k. But it was early 2009 and not many companies were getting new financings at all so I thought they should take the deal.

Venture Capital 356

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Writing 356

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Mostly, I love writing. But the product is called textPlus, not textFree.

Gogii 310

Gogii Invest Blogging Activision 310

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

So VCs started writing some smaller A-rounds. I have come to realize that since the great tech boom started in 2009 and given the massive increase in first-time angels, first-time seed funds, first-time accelerators … there market is just filled with well-intentioned terrible advice. and there''s always a but].

Seed Funding 399

Seed Funding Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 399

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011. For instance, What Are My Options Worth? 2011 Rank.

Newsletter 205

Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

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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. Crazy, huh?

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

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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 will write about some of these topics soon. We’ll re-compare notes then. Investors are conformists by nature.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

And 450 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold since its launch in 2009, making it the fastest-growing operating system ever, and showing us that Windows is going to keep controlling the OS market share. Credit for the writing and research of this article and content goes to Zack Schuler of Cal Net Technology Group, Founder & CEO.

Writing 88

Writing Training Email .Net 88

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

If I look back to the beginning of the current tech boom which started around 2009, we often wrote a $3–5 million check and this was called an “A round” and 12 years later in an over-capitalized market this became known as a “Seed Round” but in truth what we do hasn’t changed much at all.

Startup 408

Startup Venture Capital Writing Invest 408

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? Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

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AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. sometimes I’m just in that mood and when I am my writing style takes on my inner grumpiness. why do I write p.s.’s sometimes?

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Startup Funding Invest 263

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APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. PF: Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher, back in the day said something like this, “I wrote you a long letter because I did not have time to write you a short one.” Write descriptions that get to the heart of what you really want.

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

This was until about 2009 because most the investments in companies came from one, maybe two, sources. This is a function of my fund size (if I have a $10 million fund I’m unlikely to write a $2 million check since my fund will lack diversification), my view of the risks in your company and my desired ownership.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Invest 150

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JANUARY 12, 2010

I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. Like many of you, though, I’m always struggling with productivity drains and in search of improvements.

Product 280

Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

Invest 284

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

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MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 They see how hard she does her job. And reinventing itself. And some firms will go under. And others will emerge. That’s normal.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. If I write $2 million and we hit a bump in the road, I can write another $2 million. Am I allowed to say this?

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Scott Lahman: When we first put it out in early 2009, free texting was just a huge offering. Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet. We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII.

Gogii 200

Gogii Mobile Activision Electronic Arts 200

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital CTO Hire 293

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.), Contrary to the way we carry ourselves we’re not robots (although I do enjoy being called a machine - but I’m not Summer Glau).

CTO Hire 241

CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity Develop 241

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We We find that discussion of AI has increased sharply since 2009, and that these discussions have been consistently more optimistic than pessimistic.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40