Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” It’s ok to live-and-die by Google early.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. Google Ad Sense was just getting going.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. They helped Overture become smarter about what type of ads to serve.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2021

Costa Mesa-based impact-focused venture capital investor CerraCap Cares announced this morning that it has made an investment in Aquagenuity, a startup that provides real time information about water quality. Aquagenuity is based in Atlanta, and also has raised funding from SoftBank and Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million. Not Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage? What price?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The second major trend was the rise of the angel that was a function of the boom in Silicon Valley wealth (Google, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Salesforce.com, etc) plus the rise of crowd-funding platforms (AngelList) plus the rise of Y Combinator / 500Startups / TechStars. Be thoughtful about from whom you raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). I think everybody heard about this acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Before jumping into the post I wanted to point out one thing about doing TWiVC and posting my notes here on BSOTT. In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Don’t worry about scaling just yet. If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily. If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Our team couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to join Fastly to continue to drive forward security protections that empower developers. But we also believe this is a great moment to showcase the diversity of the LA technology scene,” wrote Signal Sciences chief executive Andrew Peterson, in a direct message.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Total raised: $16.0mm. Other Deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

You also might enjoy hearing him talk about his background – including the fact that he was actually the executive assistant for Condoleezza Rice during one of the more historic and controversial periods of time in recent history! On the show I’ll I could get him to talk about was his travels on Air Force One.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau, Airbus, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others, currently flies passengers around the New York City area, where it’s headquartered, offering the region’s wealthy $800 flights to the Hamptons, among other flights at various price points. . — Tyler Babin (@Tyler_Babin) March 11, 2019.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

Stealthy San Diego alternative energy vehicle firm V Vehicles , which just raised $62.25M in a funding round, apparently has added Google Ventures as an investor in the company. Google's involvement was first spotted by Xconomy , which said it has confirmed the involvement of Google with V Vehicles.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. It's all about the entrepreneur. Big ideas rule the day. The second, is don't back yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. In the case of Invoca we led both the seed round and the A round and didn’t wait for somebody else to come and provide more capital. Over the past 2.5

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

The Series A is led by Social Capital which is joining the board. Also participating in the round: The Schmidt Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, Radicle Impact, Rethink Impact, Plum Alley, Kapor Capital and First Philippine Holdings. “We’re really excited because it’s taken really years of work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. He regretted the decision and sued the company and the board – it’s still not totally clear to me what he was suing about. Make sure you have standard vesting – even before your raise capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. The firm has about 90% of its clients in India today, something it intends to change in the coming quarters. “60% 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

If we would like to learn more about your skills and experience, we will be in touch within 3 weeks of receiving the application.” Twitter Spaces Event Reveals More About xAI Musk hosted a Twitter Spaces event this week, during which he discussed the new AI project in more detail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We all hear about the big winners, such as the game Clash of Clans , which has now surpassed $1 billion in yearly revenue, and the smartphone version of Skype , which is making huge money through credits as an extension of the website version. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Be aggressive and alert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2013

In my view, entrepreneurship has always been the ultimate embodiment of capitalism, and quite synonymous with free enterprise. Yet I find that more and more young entrepreneurs are uncomfortable with the term “capitalism”, somehow thinking that it prioritizes “making money” above all else.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. In this case the barrier would be reduced access to capital.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

This is our most special event of the year—the eighth year we’ve held it—and it’s limited to about 100 VIP guests. We’ll tackle big trends, challenges, and opportunities in areas like venture capital, software, genomics, digital medicine, education, and diversity. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The Denominator Effect I recently wrote a post about funding for investors to think about having a diversified portfolio , which I called “shots on goal.” In our funds we do about 12 deals / year and see several thousand so the funding rate is somewhere between 0.2–0.5% This is Venture Capital. On Funding?—?The

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The small venture capital firm was started in San Diego about two years ago by Bill Maris , who, during his time at Google, founded and led its corporate venture capital arm, now part of parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ).

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

Machinima has not said anything about its fundraising plans in public. Machinima last raised funding in May of last year, raising $35M from such backers as Google, Redpoint Ventures, and MK Capital. machinima venture capital content youtube network' READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I hear it right after people have decided to come by for a few days to “check out what all the fuss is about.” Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 1, 2016

We're honored to have two distinguished speakers joining us as panelists: Erik Rannala, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Mucker Capital, a VC fund, and co-founder of MuckerLab, ranked among the elite accelerators in the nation. Read more about Erik on the Mucker Capital website. See [link] (more)

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