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APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Here is the video link or click on the image above. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 We’re a busy bunch.

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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. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). Our product is called Starring You, which lets oyu put yourself into any video we create. Gregg Spiradellis: We've got four products in the market right now.

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MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. It might be online videos targeting niche audience.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The companyin the spirit of Nestis hoping that consumers will help drive adoption of its product, which it expects to ship in January. We spoke with founder Manrique Brenes --a veteran of such companies as Skype and Cisco--to hear about Blossom''s products, plus its link to such companies at Vizio. What your product all about?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

This 1-minute video shows exactly what Invoca does. Higher education. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category. If you want to understand the power of how they’re built inbound call management into a SaaS category where they’re the market leader watch this one minute video.

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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. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

“We launched a telehealth product in 48 hours, we converted the majority of our visits for the next month in person online and we had really, really great feedback and customer response — both in terms of adoption but repeat visits as well. Early growth in visits is running at 100%, month over month, per Carmy.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

We had the chance to speak with William Volk , Chief Creative Officer of Playscreen (www.playscreen.com), who talked how his company is looking to crack the code with Crickler 2: Daily Word Puzzle , which is among the most popular puzzle games on iTunes, and recently number one in free educational games. It's free, with in-app purchases.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. When the data are viewed in light of startups established by educated and experienced entrepreneurs, the success rate of such ventures increases substantially. Product Name.

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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. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&#

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

A single click can help you browse over a store’s website for the products you need. And what will happen to the mainstream retailing setting as it continues to deliver the same quality of products by only using the same traditional method that it has been using way back then? This move drove a lot of smaller local merchants away.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. He is the founder of Benson Backpacks , a company that sells backpacks and supports children’s educations in Tanzania with each purchase.

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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. I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

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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. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY?

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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. One of the first investments I did in computer vision was Osmo, a product designed to get children off of the couch and to stop starting into an iPad and instead get them using physical objects (and other people!)

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

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