Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

Key early figures include CTO Doug Palmer, a pioneer in the development of video-over-IP technology who also worked at San Diego’s Linkabit and HNC Software, and chief engineer David Eames, one of HNC’s original staff scientists and an expert in neural networks and parallel computing applications.

Artificial Inteligence 62

Artificial Inteligence San Diego CTO Hire Outsource Development 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Develop an efficient and effective writing style. Your reach with a blog is much broader than traditional business networking channels and industry conferences. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/15/2015. A good blog is a short and tightly-written message, which is key to every business communication.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

In November of 2015, Citrix announced that it will spin out the “GoTo” Division, of which GoToMeeting remains the flagship product, as a standalone public company. I was writing them multi-seven figure checks each month, because they were generating tens of thousands of customers. Sorry, that was me.

SaaS 100

SaaS Yahoo Advertising Customer 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing. Think outside the technology for social applications and value and highlight these in your grant application, and in networking with authorities. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/3/2015. Seek funding from multiple sources concurrently.

Pricing 100

Pricing Equity Technical Review Research 100

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

There's also a great network effect happening in the area of industry clouds, and network capitalism, which is not just marketing poof. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

If such write-downs only impacted the faux unicorns and their avaricious investors, there would be little need for alarm. According to Pitchbook , during the first half of 2015, “M&A exits valued at less than $100 million made up the majority of exits or about 65% of the total number of deals, which was up from about 60% in 2014.”.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do. Some of the deals that worked out best for me as an angel were those companies I was telling my cash guy one year that this will be a complete write off. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area?

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It’s one thing when you provide a blank space to write your goals when you are in a classroom and there’s a teacher who can help you. In some context, you might call this a support network. I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA. Yes, I’m yelling – it’s really that bad.

Satisfaction 167

Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. —

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. The iPhone had been launched about 10-months earlier (tying users to an exclusive carrier with a crappy network) and most of the smartphone apps that had reached scale were games. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. They bought Periscope in 2015—a live streaming platform with an appealing and easy user interface. When you’re the fourth place network, things aren’t going great. It’s a powerful tool for social utility and a great social network.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. 5) It is 2015. 2) RightScale crossed the chasm pretty quickly from early adopters (Animoto and Zynga) to mainstream customers (The Associated Press and A&E Television Networks). It’s contagious!”.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

As I write these words I already imagine my next deposition in which I’m asked to read this out loud. I started writing about problems when founding a startup years ago but the problem has gotten worse. Be very careful with everything you write in an email or send in a text message. *. Lawsuits. It is insanely common.

Startup 150

Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are 10 common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner. Take a hard look at your own business strengths and weaknesses, and write down what partner skills and experiences would best complement yours.

Startup 105

Startup High Tech Entrepreneur Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. But let me be even more clear. The result?

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150