From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

At Amplify I can truly say they take the value-add approach to another level by leading by example, demonstrating what hard work and dedication truly mean while exposing their founders to influential experts and industry change makers.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. In addition, LoveIt connects people with their friends – and helps them discover other people, brands, websites and blogs that share similar visual tastes. What inspired you to launch LoveIt?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. Originally introduced by Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar in 2010, the act was reintroduced in late 2011 based on opinion that company creation could be a strong push towards job creation. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Even tech blogs know this.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. So to give you a concrete example: let’s say you’re considering whether to raise $3 million vs. $5 million. The market is over-valued in 2011 relative to norms.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

A few examples of reverse mergers over the past few years include Tobira Therapeutics (NASDAQ: TBRA ) ( recently acquired by Allergan ), Pulmatrix (NASDAQ: PULM ), Retrophin (NASDAQ: RTRX ), and Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ). Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

For example, here in NYC it’s almost impossible to find shorts in August. Nude shoes to be even more specific for the Summer 2011 season. If you are referring to the blog post about being a mom and a CEO, studies have shown that women are far better multi-taskers than men. Andrea: Definitely shoes, women’s shoes.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

At Amplify I can truly say they take the value-add approach to another level by leading by example, demonstrating what hard work and dedication truly mean while exposing their founders to influential experts and industry change makers.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Youtube.com, 48 hours of uploads every minute and three billion views daily, according to Youtube.com’s official blog in May of 2011. Kitesurfing example of app.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. The idea of a “retweet” as an endorsement and as a way to “share” someone else’s content within your feed and with your followers, was relatively new (outside of blogging). montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Before we begin, he reminds us of the different players involved in the project, billing it as a great example of multi-disciplinary innovation. As of 2011, the annual death toll for AIDS-related mortalities was estimated to be 1.7 He also sits as CEO to Flow Pharma, Inc. Applied machine learning techniques developed by Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. According to Forrester Research (2011 report) 77% users who abandoned an online purchase cite the inability to speak to some as their primary reason for leaving. … phones cost money, phones do not scale. But turns out it’s not factually correct.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the frameworks data mapping code. For example, on the Java platform, Jackson was used for frameworks that do not provide a serializer. Code examples.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. Give yourself a month. Keep the day job.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. Examples in My Life & Work. 2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. For example, are you providing a stats service that needs frequent, fast updates? For example, let’s assume this is a content site.

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