InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. “Learn from the mistakes of others.

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APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

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MAY 13, 2018

If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. That's the joy of being an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur, working for a company like this is rewarding and exciting. They're all paper focused, and very inefficient.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We are constantly learning, doing research, and networking with other entrepreneurs, and people in our business who are the best at what they do.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web. What I found out very quickly, is there is a tremendous demand among the independent production community for this information. We've found there is a big community of people who need access to our data.

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Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Will Zell (CEO) is based in Columbus, OH, and is an Empact100 entrepreneur who was honored at The White House in 2011. Zach Ferres (Chief Technology Officer) has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15. Who are the founders/ background? His main company Providence Holdings has invested in real estate and several small businesses.

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

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APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Enter P2P lending.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. Your measurements are automatically sent via wi-fi to the cloud and stored in a password protected portal viewed on the web or on your iPhone. Enter Withings. One was at Yale and the other at Boston College.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. However, it was an idea and concept which had been brewing for awhile, and besides, I had a personal interest in starting my own company and wanting to be an entrepreneur. It was an eye opener.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. If you look at the technology side, there are lots of different players on the supply side, even more on the data, and even more on the demand size. Tim, first off, for our readers who haven't heard of OpenX, explain what you provide to the market?

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

As Swartz became aware of the detrimental power and control the government can have on this planet’s most valuable asset, the human brain, this talented developer and entrepreneur did not hesitate to take on yet another role- as a political and internet activist. Knowledge is Power. Activism, Lawsuits and Depression.

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Journal Blogging RSS Report 86

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Blogging Java 92

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. It was a pleasure to write them myself. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Overture (Goto.com).

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Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. Our “little project&# turned into something that had enormous potential and wide-reaching demand.

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JULY 10, 2011

Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. Read this story that is typical of many entrepreneurs with whom I talk. Most wont write stuff publicly because they fear retribution. I can’t put it in writing but I won’t stop it.” In fact, they seem intentionally opaque.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. But putting large sums of money in the hands of first time or even experienced entrepreneurs with absolutely no oversight is a recipe for disaster. What I can tell you from my vantage point?

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