Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

I recently gave talks at Caltech & Stanford. Recreating and out executing a tired, old site in a new way is innovation in the way that Quora has totally redone how Q&A works. Recreating and out executing a tired, old site in a new way is innovation in the way that Quora has totally redone how Q&A works.

Startup 296

Startup Evite Web Ideas 296

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We noticed that many of those sites were not pre-populating the site with content, were not drawing from external channels, and were not starting conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. Is FanMix available now?

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Is there a market?

Startup 185

Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing.

Pasadena Angels 162

Pasadena Angels Pasadena Angel Startup 162

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. Server and client in Java. I would tend to agree.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The next generation of social networking and communications companies are very interesting, people are thinking about taking identity and their social graph everywhere on the web with you, which I think will lead to a bunch of interesting companies. We're working with a company in Venice Beach which is trying to solve that problem.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. I have also attended Thursday Lunch ( thursdaylunch.com ), Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum , and Digital LA.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

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 ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318