Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about?
socalTECH
APRIL 25, 2011
We literally had 5,000 to 10,000 SKUs to get our products out worldwide. We're really competing with the product that came with your phone. Of course, it became a carrier driven business, as carriers started carrying color phones, and they needed products which would take advantage of those phones. It's the quality of the team.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. So we can say no based on geography, we can say no based on it doesn’t fit in our themes.“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”.
socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2011
Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. Are you finding Gamzee is different that what you've previously done at Activision and Acclaim? What is Gamzee all about?
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 30, 2012
We write and create our own content for the game. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! Moving beyond the Internet, we have spawned companies with breakthrough technologies in robotics, renewable energy and automotive design and production among others.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. In Los Angeles you have large industries in garment industry, defense, games (both physical like Mattel and virtual like Activision) and music. In our regions? Fuggetaboutit – show me the money ! And of course you have Hollywood.
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