TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. More importantly, start cultivating networks of friends who have a sense of pulse on the frontiers of the economy. When should you start a company?

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Competitive sportswoman. And still able to make it out to LA networking events. Kara on one side of the table showing me market sizes, competitive dynamics, product roadmaps, pricing plans for physical products with COGS and gross margins. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She helps write press releases.

Startup 398

Startup Design Downey Activity 398

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. In fact, they were recently bought by a publicly traded company called Ditech Networks).

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Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. We have standing agreements to drive revenue share from all of those merchants in our network.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation. Of course, previous successes provide more direct evidence of a network of the right people. Effective communication requires real listening, as well as talking.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Angel Social Media Patents 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Building your home base with personal and product traction.

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone. and tinyurl) obfuscate sources, masking malware installs.

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Social Network Networking Tool Sites 87

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. However, if you’re going to start a company and be an entrepreneur, you need to network and you have to hustle. How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Building your home base with personal and product traction.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check. If you have skills that will augment their deal flow, due diligence capabilities or simply expand their network, you can make yourself an asset within the small world of venture capital. Hang Out With VCs - VCs love free help. Share and Enjoy.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Invest RSS 242

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

. - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

<Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Below is my email to Jim and Kevin, following my debriefing with the VoIP expert, who requested to remain anonymous. Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies. > -jeff.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

DataSift was selected as the topic data supplier for Facebook , which allows companies to analyze a data feed that is > 20x larger than the entire Twitter feed and creates privacy-safe insights from a network of 1.4 Twitter announced its acquisition of our competition Gnip almost a year ago. billion people. Some evidence?

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Platform Course Custom Customer 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address. The Importance of Twitter. Not so on Twitter.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. There is no competition. 10 cents per DAU.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies.

Mentor 84

Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2010

When all goes well, it is a real partnership between the investors and the company management teams, figuring out the strategy, rolling with the punches you get from the economy and competition and working together to create a great company. This work uses everything I’ve learned, both about business and people, so it is a lot of fun.

Venture Capital 65

Venture Capital Capital Entrepreneur Competition 65

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. If commitment and drive were Jason’s first attraction, the extensive Amplify network came in a close second. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. Paul Bricault Directing Traffic.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. I believe that Twitter is (rightly) more preoccupied with the growth of their network and the engagement levels of their users.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. If commitment and drive were Jason’s first attraction, the extensive Amplify network came in a close second. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. Paul Bricault Directing Traffic.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

billion on Friday, I have received a flood of emails asking for my thoughts on the topic. Against the odds, within a few years, adMonitor had become one of the most dominant advertising networks on the Internet, serving billions of ads each month for over 3,000 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T and Visa.

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). So much for resting!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40