Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based ExpenseBay scored the top award--a Lego trophy--at last week's Twiistup startup showcase event, rising above 11 other startups looking to strut their stuff to investors, angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others at the Universal Hilton on Thursday and Friday. ExpenseBay was founded by Eric Sikola.

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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. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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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.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 In the last three to six months, we've had the good fortune of bringing on talent from The Honest Company, and from some really strong, Web 2.0 companies around the LA area.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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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. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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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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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. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 entrepreneur culture startup internet lifecycle Kai Hammerich Richard D. Marty Zwilling.

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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. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

At parties in the Bay people talk about Twitter, Friend Feed, what’s being written on Valleywag and Techcrunch, and kickball games between VC’s and entrepreneurs. Some of the Entrepreneurs in the Bay I’ve learned the most from are: Greg Tseng – smartest person I’ve ever met about user viral marketing and A/B testing.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

You then caught things like Web 2.0, What's the ideal entrepreneur and technology for your fund? What advice would you give to clean tech entrepreneurs looking for funding, in general? They spent a lot of money building markets that didn't yet exist, and then things fell apart. social media, and everything else.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 The key driving factors to Web 3.0

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So we can say no based on geography, we can say no based on it doesn’t fit in our themes.“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

Hire Entrepreneurs! Hire Entrepreneurs! By Frank Addante Is it safe to hire entrepreneurs? These are all prerequisites for a good entrepreneur. When we hired, we always said that we were looking for entrepreneurs to join our team. Entrepreneurs, by nature, are loyal and extremely dedicated.

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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. Examples include FindMeOn.com, Mugshot, and Naymz. A new one I have used is called iLogon.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I'm constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.”

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

So what Phonesheet.com does is takes that antiquated system and modernizes it, using a Web 2.0 Traditionally, they hand-write those messages and those message slips become clutter, become lost, and they stay in your office when you're not there. system where the assistant can log into the account.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2011

Somewhere below this list is another tier of questionable potential startups, including more calendar sites, blog aggregators, Craigslists, photo sharing sites, music sharing sites, or more instant messaging sites. has made it cheap and easy to launch a site, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to succeed.

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Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

A BIG THANK YOU to 3,500 entrepreneurs in 50+ countries By Frank Addante May 3 was the 1 year anniversary of this blog. I started this blog as a place to share my experiences and thoughts with a small group of entrepreneurs and companies that I advise. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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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. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

was community and content, we think Web 3.0 How do you maintain great, delightful user experience and at same time monetize your company? Companies are having to figure out, in addition to ad revenue, how do you monetize better. We think we're opening up another channel to help companies monetize.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

Tags: startup failure entrepreneurs opportunities business.

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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. She has specialized in entertainment and Internet law since 1998.

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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. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

And there lied a problem for an entrepreneur to solve. Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0. He thought, ‘of course they haven’t read them, when would they get time?’

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

You could just sit and add people to your own family tree program, but people hadn't applied Web 2.0-style, David Sacks: We started a little over two years ago, after we had the central insight that at the product level, the family tree could be viral. Before that, creating a family tree was a solitary activity.

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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 am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 companies versus the Web 1.0

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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. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 Do you run into any issues with securities laws by offering this service? Wilson Sonsini, in fact, represents us.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0 Tags: entrepreneur startup networking social twitter irvine patterson ruan george quub itnerview. What's the business model behind this? George Ruan: We've got a very solid revenue model.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

We've got a couple of other partners who have great experience in the communications sector, a serial entrepreneur who has done lots of media investing in India--but we wanted to stick to what we know, out of the gate, and we've quietly been at it now for a year now. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0,

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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. Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. Richard Rosenblatt. Bambi Francisco. Dave McClure. . Alex Quilici.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Helpful Resources for Getting Traffic from Partnerships : : Web 2.0 Be creative and persistent.This is the hardest category to give specific “how to” advice.These are typically custom deals that take some creativity on your part, relationship building, and a whole lot of patience.But fortune favors those who prevail.

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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.

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