SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2019

Automakers and startups alike are increasingly offering services that give buyers new opportunities and greater flexibility around owning and using vehicles. Cars-as-a-Service. My favorite car blog Jalopnik said it best: “Cars Sales Could Be Heading Straight Into the Toilet.” But not everyone wants to buy a car.

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Services Truecar Sales Blogging 212

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. I think it’s important for enterprise startups to layer in professional services into your revenue stream.

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Software Review Software Services Company 321

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. First task for Kyle?

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Venture Capital Startup Blogging Platform 324

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.” They sell accounting services. I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that? Final example.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni.com , the online family tree site, hinted this morning that it is about to release an iPhone application for the service. In a post on its blog, Geni said it was working on the "Next Stage of Genealogy" and showed a brief YouTube video with what appeared to be a Geni application running on an iPhone.

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Geni Blogging Sites Los Angeles 244

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2020

Ridesharing service Lyft announced in a blog post on Thursday morning that it is immediately suspending its services in California, in response to a recent ruling that said the company--as well as Uber--must treat its drivers as employees. According to Lyft, it will suspent its rideshare operations at 11:59pm PT in California.

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Services Blogging Company Companies 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. The costs to start are much lower than ever (90% reduction in infrastructure costs to start a company through open source & web services) and large companies being created in many geographies.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

Offer the ability to react / comment - In the blogging world it’s clear that having a good comment system like Disqus is critical. Good comment community = viral blog. It’s called showing good service to your most loyal customers. Try making your blog posts as lists and have it in your headline to drive clicks.

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Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

Wish you could automatically hear and follow the latest tracks people are talking about on music blogs? Galica's new service allows users to automatically stream the tracks being talked about on a range of music blogs, for free. The service is also available via an Android app. BEASTMODE.FM READ MORE>>.

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RSS Blogging Los Angeles Ideas 174

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2012

Uber , the technology-enabled, private car service which is upturning the taxi and limousine business nationwide, has set its sights on a new market: Los Angeles. Uber said Thursday that it has launched in Los Angeles, offering up its services which lets users summon a private car through their smartphone application.

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Northridge Los Angeles Blogging Services 205

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Postmates, the popular food delivery service, raised another $225 million at a valuation of $2.4 Online personal shopping service Lookiero gets $19M. We don’t know much about the company’s plans, but we wouldn’t be too surprised to see the home-sharing decacorn pursue a direct listing.

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Services Startup Venture Capital Redpoint 207

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

If you use Twitter and think it is a valuable service then you’re probably tired of the steady stream of your friends who tell you it’s just a fad and they don’t feel compelled to join. He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog. before having 300k followers!). Strange, huh?

Social Network 347

Social Network Networking Blogging RSS 347

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Ownership and accountability on feature releases.

Technical Review 315

Technical Review Blogging RSS Organization 315

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. to offer same-day delivery service for consumers to all GGP retailers nationwide. I wrote about him here. And I guess we’re not the only ones to think so.

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Startup Competition Examples Invest 331

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the frameworks data mapping code. About this blog. Subscribe to our blogs feed. You are viewing a single entry. March 28, 2013. Framework Benchmarks.

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Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. Yet the value of real relationships, as with consumer customers, has become critical to your business services growth and success.

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Services Technical Review Social Media Case Study 121

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Los Angeles-based online dog sitting marketplace DogVacay appears to be in growth mode, based on a recent notice the company sent out to its blog. DogVacay operates an online marketplace which helps connects dog owners with vetted dog sitters, offering up reviews of those sitters, tools to keep owners connected with their pets, and more.

Technical Review 191

Technical Review Incubator Blogging Los Angeles 191

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. The new effort emerged this week, revealing that it is backed by Science, Inc. ,

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Santa Monica Startup Commerce Incubator 217

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Hulu attributed the big gains in both reenues and subscribers to the "crest of two massive waves": the rise of online video advertising and the rise of online video subscription services. Kilar detailed the numbers and provided commentary in a blog post Monday morning. READ MORE>>.

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Hulu Blogging Advertising Sites 193

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In the industry they’re known as “conference ho’s.&# OK, they’re known as conference “whores&# but that sounded too harsh for a blog post. If you’re in the services business, looking to sell books or work in sales I get why you might spend more time at conferences. I think I know the root cause.

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Conference Blogging Startup Product 414

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. But it’s mostly customer service. I know many people think I blog all day long. But what kind of business person would I be if I allocated 100% of my time to customer service and zero to marketing? “But WAIT !!!

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Email Product Startup Writing 314

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. It was interesting for me to read Fred Wilson’s email bankruptcy blog post this morning. It’s not just the spammers or marketers trying to sell you products or services.

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Email Startup Writing Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write.

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. LendingClub. It sucked.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. They are location aware, which is important in personalizing the service offering.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2013

However, DogVacay , the Santa Monica-based startup which offers up an online service to help connect dog owners with people to watch their pets, has a secret weapon -- cute dog and puppy photos. It''s almost always difficult to get people to share information about your startup to the world.

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Customer Custom Santa Monica Social Media 216

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Is this investor on AngelList? You betcha. Speaks on CNBC.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Email Blogging 352

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu said Wednesday that it will reach $1 billion in revenue this year, up from the $695M in revenues it had in 2012, and also now has 5 million subscribers on its Hulu Plus premium service, six years after the company''s launch in 2008.

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Hulu Hollywood Content Blogging 176

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response. Yes, I love DropBox, Box.net, DocStoc, SlideShare and similar services. Save cloud services for every other kind of email. Fred Wilson nailed this in his “double opt in&# blog post. Links are fine but make them option.

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Help Email Mentor Blogging 332

InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

A tiny mobile screen leaves little to no space for advertisements and makes it nearly impossible to fill out information when purchasing a product or service. Photo Credit: Tech The Best , Tech blog. Photo Credit: Let's Not And Say We Did , Personal blog. But, a mobile phone is still a phone. Share and Enjoy.

Netflix 191

Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups. The most interesting to me – and this got me thinking – is accounting services provided at cost. So why not offer this service to startups at cost? Put offer proper accounting at your peril.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

Product 348

Product Startup Design Blogging 348

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

The program is expanding to Chicago in 2021, the blog post notes. It’s why some doubt the intentions of companies and firms newly promising to increase diversity, beyond the opportunistic lip service. Read the whole HBCUvc blog post here. HBCUvc’s first batch was 11 students from three universities.

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Equity Technical Review Venture Capital Blogging 220