Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

New entrepreneurs are setting up shop and the city is encouraging tech development with exciting initiatives. BILA) is an online community for digital tech entrepreneurs and innovators. s own backyard into one central online hub, rich with all the resources and information that L.A. that has quietly soft launched this January.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

There's the problem with finding the right instructor, finding other friends who wanted to learn surfing with me, finding something that would fit my schedule, getting information about pricing, all of those things. Down here, we have Allyson Pizula, who was at MySpace, and was there for a number of years before going to Adconion.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information. As our knowledge of the human genome expands and our appetite for genetic information grows exponentially I think the team here is going to rock it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. When we look at Twitter we’re following friends or people from whom we want to know more information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Customers are bombarded from all angles today for information to improve their user experience, yet they need to protect highly personal things. And the mention of MySpace would raise some vague fears of their granddaughter being accosted through the Internet. User privacy. You won’t close the deal with that pitch.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. On a different topic, tell us the story behind MySpace--that seems to have boosted your profile quite a bit and thrusted you into the limelight--how did that happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. Individual clips will be posted soon.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. We looked around for literally eight to ten months, by having a couple of young people bring us companies, research papers on potential industries, and other information every day. com, and managing director at Tickets.com. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Content Sites CTO Coach 223

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. Individual clips will be posted soon.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Tags: entrepreneur startup networking social twitter irvine patterson ruan george quub itnerview.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. It’s your job to make those tough calls with the limited information you have and to soften the blow to the side that didn’t get their way. MySpace dithered. Zynga and others.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Citysearch is an online guide that offers information and recommendations regarding local businesses including restaurants, shops, bars, hotels, and others. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. What are the current local startups that more people should know about now?

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook. And there it was – MySpace was growing at the exact time we all had cheap digital cameras, smartphones with cameras and new, cheap video cameras like the Flip that allowed us to create video.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

At the time, there were lots of social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace, but there weren't any sites based on travel. I thought it would be great to create one for travelers, who have lots of useful information to be shared. We launched on MySpace a few months after that, and it was very, very popular.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 event I did last fall.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Finally, the girl whose information we wanted registered on LAGbook. As a young African entrepreneur with little funding, you may want to meet new people on social networks that may help in the growth and development of your new internet start-up. Students will create a social circle that mimics their social activities in school.

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Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. When I hear entrepreneurs say that they’re kicking around ideas with friends I ask, “have you legally registered a company?&# BUT … if you do create the next MySpace, Facebook or Twitter there will be much money at stake.

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Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Real-time information drives commerce.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

For example, Excel was able to read files from Lotus, and was able to save the file without losing any information. Pricing information. 46 minutes: Joel on the battle between MySpace and Facebook. Joel felt that MySpace completely missed the opportunity to build a platform, and were clueless about the decision they made.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285