Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2017
In the early days this is expensive because the logistics & warehouses are amortized over a small customer base but with scale this infrastructure and the technology that drives it becomes a powerful moat and hard for new entrants to compete. MakeSpace is building the exact same systems but in reverse. years of software development.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. You had the entry into our ecosystem of hedge funds, cross-over funds, sovereign wealth funds, mutual funds, family offices and all other sources of capital that drove up valuations. billion fund.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund.
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Bezalel , the company devoted to empowering mobile device users to discard the power cord, has launched a Kickstarter campaign November 10 – December 15 to fund production of the first universal wireless charging case for the iPhone. IKEA (in select tables and lamps). Those currently using the Qi standard include: McDonalds.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. at a level of specificity you don’t always find in VCs.
socalTECH
JUNE 25, 2012
introNetworks is still going strong and has some of the biggest customers in the world, like NASA and McCann World Group. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. You have been working on introNetworks, why you decided to create new the service?
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this.
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