Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. Everyone is learning from each other and the corporate partners are looking for acquisition, talent, [and more].”

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. — Balaji S.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product."

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We caught up with co-founder Joey Flores on the story behind the company's brush with death, and its recent acquisition by You42, which was announced last week. Joey Flores: Yeah, we spend the earlier part of 2014 exploring acquisition options, because we had a pretty hard time raising money. Joey, thanks for the time today.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. 6) Rely On A Public Relations Agency.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. Obviously, there were situations when we first started our organization, when we were focused on customer acquisition for the mortgage lending vertical. We do that methodically.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Read more: TechCrunch.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We really believe in the market. What areas you personally are looking at right now?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : ZipRecruiter enables employers to post to multiple free job boards with one submission – the fastest way to get a job online across the web. We just made it really, really easy to get a job online across the web in a couple minutes. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. 2.2mm in Series A.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : ZipRecruiter enables employers to post to multiple free job boards with one submission – the fastest way to get a job online across the web. We just made it really, really easy to get a job online across the web in a couple minutes. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Your commitments to investors must be significant enough to compel them to write you a check. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Puffery works in marketing, so I will deploy it when I promote my startup. Fallacy: Yes.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. We write and create our own content for the game. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. It was a pleasure to write them myself. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. Similar to VoiceXML, the standard for the past 5-yrs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. I wrote extensively about this at the time of their first acquisitions , including this passage: “I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management (CMS) company.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We have almost a thousand bloggers who are writing reviews about the products we offer, and we also review them from our own point of view, to help support parents decisions and learning about products in the real world. We also are bringing together a community of like-minded people, so that they can share and exchange information.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Stuff you may not know about LA?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. It was the late 90's, and everything was exploding, there were lots of IPOs and acquisitions, and it was a very exciting time to work in that space. How did you decide to launch HitFix?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Write it down…. Social is not a hype movement; it is part of the web’s DNA. Data, social and location are all becoming foundational to the web. The other thing would be to be CLEAR on legal structures, partnerships, etc… to the degree you can. There’s a lot more on this for another time.”. Question is, ‘How is it used?’

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Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I guess I have to keep writing now. =) Going forward, I’m going to take a different approach with this blog. Startup 3.0:

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Dont get in the habit of "re-writing" code (a natural tendency of engineers), its dangerous. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. User acquisition via each method you use.

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