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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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Creating the 21st-Century Fashion Brand, with Brett Markinson, Sole Society

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One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. Hautelook disintermediated the off-price part of the segment. It's the relationship between price and quality. What is value?

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself. I wasn’t.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. Overture sold for $1.6

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Median single-family home price increase, Jan.-Aug. Nationwide, the median home price rose 3.3%

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.