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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. Similar to VoiceXML, the standard for the past 5-yrs.

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Interview with J.R. Johnson, Lunch.com

socalTECH

Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. It was a local, SoCal company right here in Manhattan Beach. There is a lot of competition for reviews/etc. on the web, how do you hope to stand out?

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

TZ’s SXSW A-team, Efren Toscano and Justin Sewell, were invited to join the momentous ride alongside other tech innovators and influencers from the Socal reach to participate with Amtrak’s first ever #AmtrakLive live-tweet and AMA thread – to discuss the highly anticipated Amtrak Residency Program. To the Trade show Floor!

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. There is no competition. Same goes for television.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

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. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.