socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. magnify360 provides software which automatically adapts web pages to individual visitors, to tailor and personalize the web content those users see.

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Advertising Tool Yahoo Google 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!,

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. 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. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2012

That's exactly what the software from Honey (www.joinhoney.com) does, by automatically helping users of Google's Chrome Browser to find and try out e-commerce coupon codes. When you get to checkout and there's that coupon code and promo code box, everyone knows to go to Google and look for those codes. My background is pretty broad.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. You’re forced to “pivot&# on a regular basis.

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Entrepreneur Startup Google Yammer 291

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. We talked about Facebook.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait. Many entrepreneurs have a PR page in the PowerPoint deck. Again, I reiterate, it IS important. Leave them wanting more.

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Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. So why did Larry need to return? and Microsoft had become.

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Or take a look at their team page to get a sense of why we were so inspired by their vision for the future. Far from it.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

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Resource Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX 97

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA).

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Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. 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. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 118

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. Talk about local, and where you're seeing the most usage of your APIs/datasets?

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Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. 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. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor.

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Startup Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. 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. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Entrepreneur Yahoo IBM IBM 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. 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. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 118

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Set up an online phone system ( Ring Central , Google Voice , Onebox ) or set up a traditional land line ( Verizon , AT&T ).

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Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 56

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP). It seems like an extravagance but if the person also picks up scheduling travel, booking meetings, dealing with company admin and helping with basic accounting / financial tasks it can be a huge productivity boost. Penny wise, pound foolish.

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Startup Class Conference Product 333

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. 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. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

Startup 88

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 88

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform.

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

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. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

View Staff Page. ” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Download the TechCrunch App for Android in Google Play. CrunchBase. Hot topics.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. From there, I did a couple of internships in the venture capital world, including with Hummer Winblad in San Francisco.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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Stickam Content Draper Web 60

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments, ratings and more. Their products are designed to be powerful, affordable and relevant. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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