Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! Rob does it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2014

Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo. The latest is “crowd funding” your startup with thousands of tiny investments. The trouble is there are thousands of portal sites, like My AOL and My Yahoo, so you need a portal for the portals. Portals and single sign-on sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. He had spent many years at Yahoo! This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. We're fortunate we've been able to fund that from SocialEngine.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. I know many super experienced entrepreneurs who don’t understand the basics of how fund size and age can affect them so I thought it was worth establishing a baseline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2013

Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. The latest is “crowd funding” your startup with thousands of tiny investments. The trouble is there are thousands of portal sites, like My AOL and My Yahoo, so you need a portal for the portals. Don’t count on these to save your startup just yet.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram. Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Does this include investments or an investment fund? Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. VR is now also a real, big, commercial business.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. When you look at the industry as a whole, there are couple of well-funded players. It also supports blogs. The last place I worked was at Yahoo.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Yet their next fund had Facebook in it. billion in returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And also why today Mitu attracted $27 million in funding from AwesomenessTV (DreamWorks/Hearst), WPP, Verizon and Upfront Ventures. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Then came blogs. Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

This includes the folks that funded Google and Yahoo and Netflix and Ebay, and many of the great recent companies which were able to start and grow to massive scale in just a short period of time. Venture capitalists generally are not interested in funding companies at the idea stage. Some prefer to fund healthcare companies.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. blog comments powered by Disqus. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines. Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors. Or at least diversify the future fortunes of their shareholders in the way that Yahoo! About how Microsoft viewed Google Apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Remember that most fund raising takes time. And they have responsibilities for helping to manage their fund. Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Not to mention what happens in years where they also need to raise a new fund. And unless you just won the TechCrunch50 (e.g.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. He blogs here and tweets here. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Paul Grahm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” She joined Yahoo! But if you want it in it’s full V1 glory read on … You’ve never been a CEO but might like to be one some day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

.” I want to do the best deals wherever they are, but I thought, most VCs I met didn’t have very good operational experience, so I thought, “Well, what if I created a blog called Both Sides of the Table and could emphasize the fact that I used to sit on your side of the table?” But you can create your own brand.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization blogging, Entrepreneurship, monetization. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! It’s important.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

The two organizations were going to build an online “portal”—a term from the old dot-com days that described the efforts of Yahoo, Microsoft, and others to attract Web surfers with search, news, and other information. ” Verily’s role has since shifted, however. Vanderbilt had a head start stumping for it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. He is a frequent public speaker. Dave McClure. .

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. I love to sell the knowledge to my clients but ranting in blogs is somehow useless.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! It was an Internet search engine and directory "dot-com" (competitor to Yahoo!, we didnt even know Yahoo!

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 The standard to watch is activity strea.ms close behind.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). My fund was an early investor in Overture.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. NAME Yahoo. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Loading… Real Estate. » More. Real Estate. » More. Loading… Careers. » More.

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