Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

After the slideshow, we chatted about Make It Work’s culture, specifically, our philosophy of “employees first, customers next&# and our dedication to delighting every customer we serve. We talked about “ON IT,&# as a means to responding NOW to every customer request. listen to whatever music we want! I shared a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Launched in beta July last year in Oakland, San Francisco, Dealflicks is a price line for movie tickets and gives movie tickets and concessions for up to 60% off to help theaters get butts in their seats. They then decided to do something about it. Tell us more about yourself ? UCB Economics 2010 summa cum laude.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism on the horizon for 2010. Small Business Outlook 2010: Lessons Learned – A Case for Greater Optimism ,” was published by CIT Group, Inc., A full 59% of respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2010.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception. TomoCredit raises $7M to help the cash rich and credit poor.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 18, 2010

Some good ones already from May: "Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 Phrases that should be retired include - “Putting customers first” You Actually Did This? Steve Blank , May 6, 2010 Great presentations from Xobni and Dropbox on how they have gone about building their business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

The conference coincided with the news that three-year-old start-up is looking to raise funds at a price that valuates Foursquare at about $500 million. She gave us a great presentation about context. DJ Patil , one of the several well credentialed co-founders of Color , spoke about Color. Context is everything.” Wherecamp-SF.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

It's the age of smartphones and mobile data, where there are now apps gathering an immense amount of information about where we are, what stores we visit, and what we are doing. How do you make sense of all that data and actually help it to drive business decisions? What kind of decisions and data are those businesses using?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. 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. I stayed close.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Anyone who drives cannot help but imagine not having to drive any more. We’re mostly talking about software, after all. People couldn’t help but expect a mass market push. I suppose we have to talk about the so-called “trolley problem,” too. OK, and LIDAR, and cameras, but the software is the key.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010 -- San Diego/Orange County Founder Institute Information/Networking Event. Anyone interested in becoming a world-class founder is invited to learn how the Institute can help. Anyone interested in becoming a world-class founder is invited to learn how the Institute can help. Founder Institute.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

The conference coincided with the news that three-year-old start-up is looking to raise funds at a price that valuates Foursquare at about $500 million. She gave us a great presentation about context. DJ Patil , one of the several well credentialed co-founders of Color , spoke about Color. Context is everything.” Wherecamp-SF.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. How about IGN ? Well, could be. in a $580M deal.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. Jonathan Simkin: What makes us unique from other sites, is we're here to help students save time, in addition to money, when they buy books. I graduated in May of 2010. They act as mentors and help companies grow. What's SwoopThat?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

This post is about the “P” or pain. The point of PUCCKA was to develop a common methodology to make sure our whole team approaches sales with the same mindset and to give us a language to talk with each other about our prospects, as in, “have you identified your customers pain point yet?”. That is still “pain.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. 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.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 25, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Founders Institute Event. Anyone interested in becoming a world-class founder is invited to learn how the Institute can help. Learn about the program, meet other applicants, and ask any questions. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 12, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010 -- Social Media Club of Los Angeles invites you to "Dating and Relationships: The Game Has Changed" to mix, mingle and discuss how Social Media has changed the rules of dating. Exactly one month before Valentines Day, come hear all about how social media can help you with the hook ups. SEe [link].

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Though it has actually been working on the core problem of environmental sensing and intelligence for about a decade at this point, according to co-founder Davida Herzl. I incorporated Aclima 10 years ago and started really working on the technology around 2010.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. First of all, talk about GraphEffect and what you are doing? How did firm come about? Thanks for the time today! READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Investors are human, after all Come up with a valid reason because they know in communicating with founders if there’s no reason to say “no” you can generate bad will Risk missing out on an inflection point: Investors of course are also concerned about saying “no” too early in the process when they can “hang around the rim” and see what happens?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down&# rather than following the masses toward the exit door. I think being knowledgeable about your sector can be important. That’s what he knows best.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Here are some things I find interesting about them though: Rails (Ruby) does not scale as well as Grails (Groovy). Get get help (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ). So what's the bottom line?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2010

This year BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010 is set to be their biggest yet. It gives you a real time stream about what is happening right now at this very moment on the internet. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. October 16.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot. Tell us about what your business is nowadays? As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

He understands our issues as a community and vows to help keep LA Tech on the map. And how can you help? If you live in LA (or even if you don’t you can help amplify) please consider Tweeting the following: “I support the tech industry. From his opponent I have heard crickets in the past year. Why does it matter?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 -- The Mad Men of the Central Coast: The Next Wave of Advertising Innovation. Join the Mad Men of the Central Coast online Advertising community as they talk about the next wave of innovative online and offline advertising, the current state of advertising and the future of the industry.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 -- "The Mad Men and Women of the Central Coast: The Next Wave of Advertising Innovation" The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. See [link] (more).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As discussed in Why I Passed On Twilio , VC's love to talk about their successes, but seldom publicly acknowledge their mistakes. Our mutual friend mentioned to me over breakfast during the late summer of 2010 that Uber was raising a seed funding round. What I Missed About Uber. Nope, that’s not a typo.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2010

We'll be featuring some of their responses every day, to help people get a sense of what people are thinking about. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? The questions we asked are the following: 1. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

After an Adviser at his Cupertino High School told Nithin and his fellow Freshmen classmates about a school in Kenya that needed help with their educational facilities, Nithin, along with another student, created Kenya Dream and ran it as Co-Presidents. We didn’t think about having a prom. Lastly, never give up.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Maseeh also said the prize will come associated with a new course at the USC Viterbi school, which will help engineers learn about business plans and creating viable businesses from their ideas. The Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) is expected to have its first competition in the spring.

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