Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and social games. I guess “social&# is just soooo last year. I recently gave talks at Caltech & Stanford. And I feel the same about investing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. Later on, we can add upsells for community managers and social media marketers. We scaled that to almost $1.4 We'd love to take money for that.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

Another idea was to tap into the talent pool at CalTech, UCLA and USC early using accessible internship programs through a public-private partnership with the City. I also heard a lot of chatter about increasing the area’s overall investment in infrastructure, including fiber, which is highly critical to the region as a whole.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). I believe that people already form topical social networks as evidenced in places like HackerNews or Quora.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone.

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