socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We''ve very much taken a play out of the Yammer playbook. Yammer used this to create lead generation from the top down. Yammer did that very adeptly, and I think that fits extremely well with our model. What''s the biggest lesson you''ve learned, as an entrepreneur? That''s important in how we market. more) READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. Entrepreneurs can still build big businesses on the outskirts.” Where David is Totally Right.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. Eric is an experienced entrepreneur, and was a very, very early employee at PayPal, where he was recruited by Peter Thiel. Jackson: It's actually two audiences, both the entrepreneur and investor.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

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AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].”

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. The company was called Red Beacon. Nice sweep! We like to be able to see the concept.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. Plus, I feel like we have everything here in the ecosystem to thrive.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

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JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. This is wrong.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

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APRIL 21, 2010

entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. One interesting point about Wonga that I didn’t cover in the show. In business you spend your life in email.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

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FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Meet your favorite tech entrepreneurs, bloggers, VCs or whoever that will be hanging out and talking to randoms at 3am at a taco stand or more likely a fried chicken waffle stand. If you were at TechCrunch 40 in the early days and you won: Mint, Yammer, RedBeacon – you were an instant darling. It is “Spring Break for Geeks.”

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MARCH 22, 2010

If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Social Media Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Many other great companies are not. -

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

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JANUARY 28, 2011

These are the skills I look for in entrepreneurs and leaders. It is the very fabric of what I believe forms the entrepreneur DNA. I meet entrepreneurs all the time who tell me one of the following things: “I’ve had trouble raising money. Real entrepreneurs are able to attract others to their calling.

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