Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Gets Real , our annual robotics and artificial intelligence conference at Google’s offices in Kendall Square, let’s connect a few dots around the topic of automation. In just the past day or two: —Uber has started testing self-driving cars in Tempe, AZ , after having its tests banned in San Francisco in December. (Of

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). They have grown at a 200% CAGR over the past 4 years. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. Danielle Steel of course being Tom Perkins ex wife. Is Google to blame? Of course not. If it were my firm I would rebrand as Kleiner. Is Silicon Valley to blame.

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JUNE 11, 2015

I’ve worked very closely with Matt over the past four years as we share an investment in a company in Los Angeles called NextPlus and we sat on a board together for years. Of course Kleiner has had a difficult couple of years. He’s with you in good times & bad. Conclusions? So what about this Kleiner to Menlo switch?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!”

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Past Success? The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

It takes on many of the lessons MBA programs and Corporate America have been teaching about business for the past 50+ years and questions whether lessons from Apple might be more applicable in thinking about the future. That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Of course, there are physical and geographic limits to trade. For example, I recently learned that Waze (which Google just bought for a cool $1B) mapped the entirety of Costa Rica, a country in which it had no operations or expertise, in under 3 months. The obvious problem of course is that many people might be turned off by the Beam.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. If you can’t out-Amazon Amazon, then move on and do something else.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Once you get past Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and maybe Yelp and Bing, you've counted for 90 percent of all interaction. If you ask Siri for where to get skinny legs jeans, or ask Google Maps for where to get a vegan burrito, they try to give you the best recommendation.

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JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). Of course strongest industry players don’t stand still. On the surface the narratives have been. Why is this? .”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

And speaking of coaching, if you haven’t read Googled by Ken Auletta you should. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple. Coincidentally my good friend Roger Ehrenberg wrote a post this past week on founders having trust in their VCs. It’s a great read.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. But of course we all need the space to be young, to experiment, to do stupid things and not to have it define our entire future. Are you beating up every Silicon Valley VC that didn’t do Facebook or Google or Uber early? Mostly kidding.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Of course they can be duped. And any even casual follower of the tech industry knows that Google Plus has been criticized for cracking down on anybody who wasn’t a “real person.” I’ve played around with the beta version the past few days and am already impressed with their ability to ship technology. [no,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you’re done with this post ) —> here. He acknowledged mistakes in his past communications and apologized. MapQuest was (and is) a much shittier product than Google Maps yet people used it for years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

When pitching to investors, weave in real-life stories of your best past creative solutions. Ironically, investors see funding opportunities correlated to past successes, rather than future success dependent on funding. Now, of course, Page and Brin have that same credibility with their successes at Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Two big themes have emerged in my head in the past 3 years: offline / online integration and mobile computing. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Google now has more than 500,000 advertisers with click-to-call mobile campaigns lit up.

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JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. Not Google. I believe the changes to the industry will be lasting rather than temporal change. Not Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I have thought a lot about anonymity over the years and actually have enjoyed debating the topic with those passionate about anonymity’s benefits because of course that’s how I learn.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Editor's note: Over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. And mid-course corrections are not bad things. We'll be publishing these between now and the new year.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

There were senior members from Facebook and Google. Oh, and of course Bono popped by for a little while. and later attracted firms like Google. It was the best 5 days of networking I spent last year. It can’t be underestimated just how influential hosting such an event can be on the future tech economy and jobs in Ireland.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” That always stuck with me.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Write those down and then head over to Google Keyword Tool. Copy and paste your list of 10 into the white box at the top of this example below. And to the right you can see the amount of people who search Google for your search terms. information you have bought yourself in the past that you have since become an expert in?

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MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! has now employed the same strategy. And who cares, right?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Heather Wilburn – Founding Member of AdWords Program & Biz Dev Manager for Channel Sales team at Google. Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.” “The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.” The Audience Inquires.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 12, 2011

GroupMe, of course, also has a mobile app that is available on all the major mobile platforms, Windows Phone 7 included, so saving those unique numbers to your contacts is not necessary. Google+ Huddles. With the release of the Google+ iOS app, Google introduced the concept of Huddles. That’s pretty much it.

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Google Mobile Platform Design 58

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MARCH 30, 2011

Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. Some of the best new companies of the past several years seem to stay lean until they figure out their product / market fit. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. As you can see in this Cambridge Associates data, early-stage investing beat later stage investing in returns in 70% of the past 30 years. billion each, $7.5 Not according to my sources.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Of course, nobody really knows all of what tomorrow will bring, in terms of globalization, digital technology, or demographic shifts, but most experts agree that certain elements are already obvious, and things must be done today to get your business ready in time. Relationships in all directions are critical to success.

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Company Companies Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 55

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Alon Schwartz

MARCH 25, 2012

IBM with OS2, different Linux operating systems, and of course Mac OS. But in the past few years things have changed. This exact question is what Google wants everyone to ask and Microsoft dreads. Now, that is a nice market to have. It wasn’t an easy ride for Microsoft and there were many competitors along the way.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap.

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