Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do. But in this case Chamillionaire stole the show.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. We met first through Tyler Crowley at Mahalo, and I invited Jason to speak at MOTM. We spoke to him, and he had the sense that the market was right for us. We have a whole go-to-market strategy around that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

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. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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Daradiction

JULY 24, 2009

Plus the market has moved in his favor and he’s in a great position to crush it. One of the benefits of networking for me has been connecting with so much talent, and the icing on the cake is being able to beta some of these bleeding edge products before they hit the market, giving me a competitive advantage.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. I want Facebook to legitimately have competition, so we all benefit as consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. We talk about all of this in the video.

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