Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. So now is the time to step up and embrace what is truly the next iteration in gaming.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. [encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money].

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318