Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Deepak’s meditation guide will be available Fall 2016 for both mobile and desktop VR systems. They’re scared about side effects and discomfort, and are sometimes depressed, and that can interfere with their ability to successfully follow a course of therapy.”. Photo by Guided Meditation VR.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Online travel sales to grow by 200% by 2016. Beginning this fall, the beta launch will give groups the advantage of sampling the first experiences with the service and will lay the groundwork to grow the platform. Travelers pay them for their local expertise, for the rooms they occupy and for the meals they share.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

The following year, she stepped down as CEO, and by 2016, her company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Boohoo. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. . And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Frost & Sullivan just named MediaPlatform the product leader in enterprise video platforms. Over the course of the year our active portfolio companies received awards or recognition on over 35 separate occasions. What are the technologies or things you think people out to watch in 2016?

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. Our clients are telling us that, because our platform is based on their location, there are so many other things they want to do to engage with consumers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

And mid-course corrections are not bad things. To quote a line from a favorite movie of mine � Excalibur � "Looking at the future is like looking at the cookie; you don't know really what it is like until you take a bite and then, of course, it's too late.". What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Course corrections, or pivots, are normal for new ventures, so expect them and don’t make excuses. Of course, a move on price also puts them in the realm of new competitors, including e-commerce vendors and big-box stores. Consider alternative technology platforms for the solution. Are you still hesitating?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

They just announced their Android app (you can download here if you’re on Android or the iOS version if you’re on that platform ). The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us. But it still takes time. Last year I began playing with an app called Draft that was in its infancy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. Of course, we all need friend relationships in our private lives, and some of these may evolve from or lead to business relationships.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: OceanX is a technology platform, and a company, solely focused on physical subscriptions. Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. How did you get into this?

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. But of course public markets had begun gyrating. 2015 turned to 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

YouTube AND other platforms. But if you’re not on FB in 2016 you’re crazy. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. The platforms are expanding and fragmenting. Video is much more valuable with sight, sound & motion. It’s both / and. I’ll talk about this another day.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Fast forward 3 years and looking out into the 2016 horizon, what do I see? Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster. Of course they built protection into many of their financings that allows them downside protection against IPOs if the price is lower than the price they paid. So eventually rationality has to occur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The second major trend was the rise of the angel that was a function of the boom in Silicon Valley wealth (Google, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Salesforce.com, etc) plus the rise of crowd-funding platforms (AngelList) plus the rise of Y Combinator / 500Startups / TechStars. Boom in Number of Startups. Late-Stage VCs Pay Up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. And of course once you dominate a show like Real Housewives of Beverly Hills you get to make derivative versions in Atlanta, New York, New Jersey, etc. Of course there are many great verticals including: Auto, food, music, animation, shopping.

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