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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Or, maybe it’s just about getting out of the way and watching what they can achieve.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. You don’t. Get over it.
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socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
We're owned by Sirona, a large multinational, which provides almost anything a dentist needs to practice medicine and dentistry, from large scale technology to devices, to digital scanners, to really mundane things like glue and gauze. What is Dentistry.com? Our company is Futuredonics, which is the parent company of 1-800-DENTIST.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 12, 2013
I first met Greg about 4 years ago or so. He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. So I began talking to him about joining the fund. So we talked about his joining.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2013
As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.
socalTECH
JUNE 1, 2015
The company recently moved into brand new, 50,000 square foot headquarters in Westwood, so we thought it would be great to catch up with Boingo CEO, Dave Hagan , to learn a little bit more about the company's journey from startup to publicly traded company over the past 14 years. technology could really do what we thought it could do.
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