Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Time will tell.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools. It’s the only site aside from Google I go to every single day so that I don’t miss out on an incredible offer. And he showed us examples how implementing his team’s innovations directly sky rocketed company sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. We were doing this one product called “Small Business Hires”, similar to the employer app we launched today, all web-based. Do you have a web component of Proven? PF: There is a web component and people do use it. The company almost died. My dad got cancer.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. Luckily, some of the folks at TechEmpower just posted Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application. For example, are you providing a stats service that needs frequent, fast updates? Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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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. Maybe you could get v1.0 This should not deter you.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Enter Google. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. So entering 2011 why does this matter?

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