SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. This business phase is where every entrepreneur starts. It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) I mostly like to have coverage in the tech press where most of my customers (entrepreneurs) and business partners (other VCs) are. It’s the same thing for me as a writer. that they probably read the main tech blogs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). I'm also interested in technology companies, in data analytics, and low CAPEX hardware.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. This business phase is where every entrepreneur starts. It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

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Startup Marketing Web 2.0 IBM 98

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

One thing I noticed from our previous interview is that Heather is one smart entrepreneur. For a first-time entrepreneur, she is not only getting it right and getting “base hits”, but she is slugging balls out of the park! ” Pathbrite’s technology is providing a smarter, more flexible, and Web 2.0

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Education Web 2.0 Course Platform 63

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. This business phase is where every entrepreneur starts. It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

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Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 53

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. This business phase is where every entrepreneur starts. It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 was starting.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. Guest: interview with a special guest, ranging from world-reknowned business entrepreneurs to leaders in technology law and policy. Christina blogs in the Technology section of The Huffington Post [ [link] ].

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

The latest type of solution is called a “web profile aggregator” built as a portal to a group of similar applications or premium content which can be accessed through a common login. Tags: entrepreneur startup single sign-on business. These typically take some integration or special setup to work with existing applications.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Tesla is not. It's a great talk. It says what?!”).

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese. was community and content, we think Web 3.0

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

Hire Entrepreneurs! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Hire Entrepreneurs! By Frank Addante Is it safe to hire entrepreneurs? Be scrappy.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Financial terms were not disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday by GoFundMe.

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Funding San Diego Hollywood Platform 40

Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 April 20, 2007 8:32 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

David has a unique perspective on the Southern California technology environment, having been the COO of PayPal before its acquisition by EBay, and having had the full Silicon Valley experience. You could just sit and add people to your own family tree program, but people hadn't applied Web 2.0-style, David Sacks: I think L.A.

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Yammer Geni Startup Southern California 133

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

He wanted to be an entrepreneur. When I was an entrepreneur I had a term sheet with True Ventures (my second company) and thought highly of them. I’ve long been a believer in technology that “captures” new media types: photos & video. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 I still do.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

I became general counsel, an investor, and an entrepreneur, and played a bunch of different roles at companies--so I know security laws intimately. If you look at any other financial market in the world, no other market has been less impacted by communications technology, or the Internet. Wilson Sonsini, in fact, represents us.

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Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 first time entrepreneur, but had taken a company IPO and ran it as a public firm in the 90's--Prostor--which he eventually sold to Sun Microsystems. Alex Aydin: I've been in the technology sector since 1987.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. What was the path from taking the technology from UC Irvine and commercialization it? The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0

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Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. Bambi Francisco.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

FatTail is really interesting, in that for the last three years or so it's been stealthy and underground, and has perfected some great technology solutions in the area, and is now working with about 500 different publishers. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0, Our investments is their first institutional round.

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Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Both Sides of the Table

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:

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

Hire Entrepreneurs! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. I also have a wide network of entrepreneurs that I advise on a regular basis. Be scrappy.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

JULY 5, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Hire Entrepreneurs! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. I have talked about this before.

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