Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. 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. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets. Who are your other cofounders?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Even worse, many entrepreneurs don’t even take the time to monitor what people are saying about them to others. If you find yourself and your business in one of these categories, it’s time to heed the steps I recommend to every business client today: Ask for a good review from every satisfied customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

B2C Companies We talked about how some companies saw an immediate decline in purchasing (for example if you’re in travel or hospitality). Seed deals, for example, are easier to get funded than a late-stage deal for obvious reasons. Not anywhere nearly as hard as being an entrepreneur. That may happen. But I doubt it.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

The firm is now run by Derrick Oien , who an experience entrepreneur, who was the founder of Intercasting Corporation, and a member of the management team which sold MP3.com We always struggle with what to call the category of the Chumby. For example, there is the Chrome OS which was recently launched, which is Chumby-like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Most investors won’t touch a first-time entrepreneur at this stage. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. How did you get involved with angel investing, initially?

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

We're in the space, and leading the thought process on what needs to be combined, for example, CRM with ITSM tools, to create meaningful results that you can act on at the C-level. I was a principal engineer facilitating the integration and connectivity of the ServiceNow platform into these other systems. So, it's quite new.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I don’t believe it’s hyperbole to say that Twitter and Facebook are truly transformative at a societal level, for example. My example du jour is LinkedIn. It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. Sure, that’s a fine category. That might be in online resumes.

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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. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? For example, look at the following graph. The example chart is not actually atypical. Thus the trade off between profits & growth.

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JULY 21, 2011

Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service? Rob Reed: Starbucks seems to be a good example, though they are not a client. So, that first part is just understanding how to engage, where, what platforms they are engaging on, and what the value of that is.

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APRIL 28, 2011

For example, someone might be able to use what we've created to create a game. We're providing a very solid platform, which includes your full social graph, connections to the Facebook and twitters of the world, and provides a great toolset for people to tap into. Alerts can come in three categories.

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. A few examples of what we''ve done, is we do instant search. Dev Bhatia: You can think of them as lots of different platforms and devices.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. A good example of that is Hero Cat, which blew up in two days to million and millions of views. going to put it on their channel on Youtube, or maybe their website platform.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. However, our approach is a whole new product category, part of the marketing cloud. For example, we have said not to QR codes. We're in Santa Monica, and sometime people think we're a venue or rental space for events, but what we are, is a 100 percent software company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. They have 15 channels of categories with publishers like Alloy Digital, U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

We’re essentially a data platform and envision others building applications to take advantage of this information. The software and computer vision recognize when it’s a human passing by the laser and can filter out other movements like doors opening or other objects passing by (dogs, for example).

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's a great example of a made-in-LA thing.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. Our special sauce in that, is instead of focusing on categories like groceries and restaurants, we've mapped everything to brands instead. But, at the en dof the day, the value is created at the entrepreneur level.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For example, if you have a video of a Camaro convertible, you can embed that link, just like you did before our tool was installed--but once you do, instead of putting a YouTube video embedded in the post, we install what appears to be a player. we can expand to other categories. That's a little hard to do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2016

In 2011, the on-demand category didn't exist, but in the last four years, the fleet has gone from what was 0 vehicles, to an estimate of 2 million people in the U.S. For example, it tells them when and where to charge, and helps them operate the vehicle to match the range and performance of gasoline benefit.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. Tags: idris manley nativetung interview startup entrepreneur demo demofall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I would mostly lump me in that category. Obvious examples include Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois, Aydin Senkut, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca, XG Ventures, Reid Hoffman and so on. Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. I’m sure there are many more. Mobile app? Just jump into the demo after intros.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. “ They point to a number of examples like Revolution Foods , a Berkeley based company who provides locally sourced, organic food to school children.

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