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JUNE 16, 2016

Today I am so excited to announce our latest investment in the category —  Nanit  — which is a smart baby monitor. The major source of output of course has a computer monitor that fortunately takes a lot less desk real estate than it did when I started at my first job in 1991. These things are knowable using computer vision.

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MARCH 6, 2015

It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. In fact, new funds have launched there with expertise in the category. invests exclusively in the space. invests exclusively in the space. Rx3 Ventures' Ryan McGuigan.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And of course he’s right. The video is simply amazing and is a must watch for any investor but I think will be enjoyed by all entrepreneurs, too. Have a listen to the video yourself. “You have to look like America looks, because right now the tech sector doesn’t look like America.”

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JULY 27, 2016

So a single human flowing through a room could of course produce thousands of rows in a database and computer applications can make sense out of this data and machine learning algorithms could of course start to make informed decisions about things like “way finding” signage placement, where crowd risks may be building, etc.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

This 1-minute video shows exactly what Invoca does. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m investing heavily in Internet video. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. TreeHouse is also a video company. He then of course launched the FOWA (future of web apps) conference , which was very successful. Americans watch 5.3

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Before skimmers race to the comments or Twitter to complain – I’m not saying intro’s aren’t valuable – of course they are. Offense is spending time thinking about a theme you care about, doing research and then trying to meet every major company in that category. Same objectives.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. And the obvious category, especially for a VC based out of LA, is video.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. ” Here is a three-minute video with Fred answering this question. ” Here is a three-minute video with Fred answering this question. ” Fred and I had a long discussion about this in the video.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

But there are some deals that will get funded even though not necessarily seed: If you’re in an anointed category that will serve a post Covid-19 world well. Of course I believe the market has slowed down massively. A “true crime” video game. If you’re a clear “market winner” like Stripe, Robinhood or Airbnb.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys.

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MAY 4, 2015

Most people who don’t know the industry well assume self-storage is just used in dense, urban cities like NYC but of course this isn’t the case with NYC representing just 3% of the national market and sub-urban markets like Dallas, TX being amongst the top 5 markets. MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category.

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JUNE 12, 2010

I think you’ll enjoy this TWiVC video because the topics were so wide ranging. note: video as of Saturday AM is ustream but we have high quality video (from a "friendlier" camera angle ) going live later in the weekend. Content, of course, is the same!]. Targeting SMB’s (small & medium businesses).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. They have 15 channels of categories with publishers like Alloy Digital, U.S. How does it work?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. We don't provide specifics of how you did with your level of unconscious bias, but as a member of a certain demographic category, your information shows up in a bucket along with forty nine other people. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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JUNE 18, 2015

There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. “Yeah, we think about going every year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. ” But I went back to the office and talked with Stuart Lander & David Lapter and said, “no prizes for guessing which job Ethan’s going to take.”

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JUNE 23, 2015

More recently Crosscut added a fourth partner – Clinton Foy – who was the COO of a $2 billion video game business – to focus on investments in the gaming sector, which has always been a strength for Los Angeles. Few will know the kinds of risks you guys took in charting your own course but I had a ringside seat.

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MARCH 6, 2011

We talk about all of this in the video. I hope that I at least defended Bryce’s point-of-view in the video (and in my previous post). Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Answering these questions and other basic planning will tell you where the value is accrued in the enormous travel category, who is serving this market today and you can find whether your entry into the market is likely to create a big business. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

And of course there are startups. It’s the most ambitious and has had the most impact on our daily lives basically creating the modern category of retailing. They push the boundaries on eReaders on video streaming on web hosting on logistics and a variety of other fronts. ” No.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

And of course there’s no barrier to imparting knowledge over a Zoom call (albeit that particular videoconferencing tool’s platform’s security is something the Origin team may want to take a closer look at). Early growth in visits is running at 100%, month over month, per Carmy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Okay I’m exaggerating, but if you’re still with me, I feel your pain; of not knowing what keyword to search your inbox for to find your favorite cat video. And of course, one day, the Blackberry dies and erases everything. Which of course, is a much more ephemeral mode of communication than email. Their claim?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

These are all dumb reason to invest – of course. I know that a lot of VCs had roadkill in the Internet Video 1.0 And of course most of the micro VCs (fka super angels) also don’t hold to this minimum bar. Yes, I include many micro VCs in this category. But it happens. world and many pared back investments.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

I has been asked to do the keynote speech at a dinner that night but of course hadn’t written a speech in advance. As an aside, if you want a sense of the GOAP Asia trip check out this wonderful 3 minutes video of Christine Lu. Anyone who saw me within an hour of speaking, though, must have thought I was Rain Man.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Their presentation ended in a quick trivia round about science, a category which (of course), the techy audience chose. Full Spotlight Video. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident. Some sound advice for a room of people looking to shape LA’s business culture.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

The Consolidation culture from 1970-1990 or what we call the Big Box stores had allowed its players to create value players, club stores and category killers. Of course, the number 1 reason for shifting to online retailing is the lower start-up costs. This timing is also perfect for the creation of TV ads for the retailers.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 There are others as well. All rights reserved.

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