Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? Yes, Google won. And it wasn’t just Google Ad Words that originated in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While the idea was great, they failed on execution. Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine. Locked-in syndrome – do what worked in the past.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. At this point, we’re a little over 400 people, and we manage upward of $500 million in spend on Facebook and Google, including Instagram and YouTube. But I don’t want to limit us if it’s a cool idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!” He was seeking $500k.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Real industry leaders, such as Google and Microsoft , will tell you that there is nothing like great competitors to push you beyond what even you thought you could achieve. While your initial idea was new and not envisioned by others, it is now out there for others to attack with copies and enhancements.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. I fell in love again with the process of working with founders, designing systems, executing business ideas and driving to mass scale and audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task. It means always paying full attention to the people, objects, and ideas around you. Presence is foundational for focus and mindfulness.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in? Long hours in co-working offices with CEOs fresh from university with big ideas and a lot of vague, nebulous chat about platforms. But Google has closed the London branch of its Google for Startups Campus. You know what a startup is, right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task. It means always paying full attention to the people, objects, and ideas around you. Presence is foundational for focus and mindfulness.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2015

What if searching for people to recruit to your company was as easy as running a search in Google? That's the idea behind Connectifier (www.connectifier.com), an Orange County-based startup led by John Jersin --whose founders and many of its employees have come from Google, Amazon, and other companies where search is a part of their DNA.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)? 7 years, 100 companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Think Google Ad Words for podcasting. We'll be featuring contributions all through the holiday season.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The idea immediately resonated. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Especially after the Eagles took them down this past Sunday. And he followed through. We watched together.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

The firm is backed by Google Ventures, as well as a number of well known angels. You're backed by Google, isn't that right? Aviv Grill: Yes, Google ventures led our last round. Finally, we hooked up with AngelList, Naval Ravikant really helped us out, which is how we found Google Ventures. I spent almost two years there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

However, instead of just very rapidly scaling around that idea, we decided to really define what the business needed to look like. Once you get past Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and maybe Yelp and Bing, you've counted for 90 percent of all interaction. We accomplished that, that did it well.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2015

is looking to take that same, fundamental idea of personal referrals to jobs, and scale it out through social networks and the social graph. BenoitVatere: The whole idea behind SpringRole, is to be able to scale the job referral opportunity. Los Angeles-based SpringRole (www.springrole.com)--which is backed by Science, Inc.--

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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. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. I’m now back & ready for action. 6:00 – 7:30).

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Nobody really knows whether or not the idea is yet going to be big, so I believe in not over capitalizing too early. If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet : “The idea that this was an anti establishment vote to serve the marginalized makes me so sick.” He has an awesomely difficult task, since it is long past time for us to face up to our country’s problems. We’re going to need all hands on deck.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Past Success? The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. You might pick up a great three-point shooter but have no idea how that players attitude is going to leak into locker-room drama. Think of web vs. mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Because GoTo.com was his idea. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. But bill is a BIG idea guy. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). It kicked Google Video’s ass. Overture sold for $1.6

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

They regularly speaks at conferences, used to work at Google, and have other similarly impressive aspects to their background. Most of us are not Google. You are the person who wants to commit but you have no idea if the other party is going to be willing to commit to you. I've got a lot of great ideas and things to do.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Over the past decade, startups that have been part of the Startup of the Year programs have made new partnerships, grown into household names, and collectively raised billions of dollars in funding. “We had never pitched in front of others and had no idea what was expected. And we’re so glad we did! Startup of the Year!

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Ann Hiatt, Chief-of-Staff to the Chairman at Google. In addition to currently being the Chief-of-Staff at Google and the Business Executive Partner of Eric Schmidt, she has also been the executive assistant to Marissa Meyer of Yahoo! Dalio will talk at SXSW 2018 in a session titled How to Build a Company Where the Best Ideas Win Out.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The idea of not using one’s real name is something I’ve had to come to understand better through other people providing context. And any even casual follower of the tech industry knows that Google Plus has been criticized for cracking down on anybody who wasn’t a “real person.” Of course they can be duped.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

He acknowledged mistakes in his past communications and apologized. And many short-termists will think it’s a bad idea. It would be like if Microsoft undermined it’s Office franchise by aggressively pursuing a Google Docs like strategy. He offers a transparent explanation of his business and; 3. It defied logic.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

There were senior members from Facebook and Google. Paddy got the idea to invite a bunch of founders together in an anti-conference that just focused on building founder relationships and sharing war stories. and later attracted firms like Google. Oh, and of course Bono popped by for a little while.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

It was a “disappearing text app” where the founders told me that they named the company because the idea came from how Tiger Woods got caught cheating on his wife because all of his mistresses had evidence that he cheated because they saved text messages from him. I hear tons of ideas for early-stage apps. I simply couldn’t see it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

The idea is that if I can serve you an ad for a function that you already need to perform on the web anyways – a captcha – with a brand message I can drive recall. Another areas that I’ve been really focused on over the past 2 years is “in-image ads&# as another form of integrated media. In Image Ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. When pitching to investors, weave in real-life stories of your best past creative solutions. Now, of course, Page and Brin have that same credibility with their successes at Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. The Past (1985-2002). Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 It was mostly timing. The Present Era.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Nokia owned Heremaps at the time, and we had a couple of other people working on contextual content and imaging, and we were able to adapt to augmented reality some ideas we had had with Dreamworks Imagination, and their movie, How To Train Your Dragon 2. Since you know a person's route, you also know what billboards they are driving past.

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