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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

You’re stuck in the past.&#. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). Explain what kinds of investments TenOneTen makes or hopes to make? David Waxman: Right now, it''s just us. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. billion into Uber.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you fast forward one generation of tech companies it’s a completely different story. trillion in value.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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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. No matter what sector or region you are investing in, it will have an impact. Since 2010, $6.3B

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Over the past decade, they saw the differences in relationships as brands began to start more online. Privacy is important, so inventory owners can choose the restrictions on who can see the liquidation, like competitors, and it doesn’t appear in Google searches, Kaplan explained. Buyers then can bid on the goods.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Over the past three years the Los Angeles-based startup Maple Media has amassed a portfolio of roughly thirty companies and one hundred apps in its quest to become the IAC of app store businesses. Typically production cycles are driven by the rhythms of Google Play and Apple’s app stores.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The three are among the rare set of semiconductor and hardware startups in Southern California to gain venture backing in the past few years, in what has been a very spotty market for VC investments in the sector. Efficient Power Conversion Corp.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. I wish I did more enterprise software investing because when I attend meetings like this I realize that this is my core DNA – rolling out business software solutions to customers. If they want to invest that’s great.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

During the latter half of 2011, Google awarded a number of leading YouTubers and nascent Internet TV networks grants of $1 million to $2 million. Although estimates of Google’s total investment vary, the industry insiders I spoke with believe it exceeded $100 million. The same phenomenon is true in the YouTube ecosystem.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Today, we have a contribution from Michael Jones , the CEO of Science Inc. www.science-inc.com). He is also a long-time entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

His team--which has followed him from his past firms--has a number of successes under their belt. Factual / Gil Elbaz - For the amount of success in his last startup, few people seem to know that Elbaz is behind Google's immensely successful Google AdSense product--originally known as Applied Semantics' AdSense.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Our most recent Demo Day in November 2018 (at Google/Venice on the main stage) was the most well-attended Demo Day in the history of Startup Boost.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. They have grown at a 200% CAGR over the past 4 years. Google knows it.

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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. Investors were really excited, and in the weeks following we took investment meeting after investment meeting. We had a 1.0 Verson 2.0

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share.

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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. In short I look at team dynamics and it forms a very important part of my investment decision.

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JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. Not Google.

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MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies.

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JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights.

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MAY 7, 2013

This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). This has been a very welcome addition.

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APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Overture sold for $1.6

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development to produce its lineup of high-end headphones, speakers, and other audio technologies. But in the past few years, Bose has also started to look outside its walls for other sources of innovation.

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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. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Google Ad Sense was just getting going.

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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. To stay a leader, you need to find other breakthroughs on a regular basis, and not rely on a past legacy. A leader that does not invest in the future has no future.

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JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. Kleiner has taken a lot of s**t in the press over the past few years and as someone who has known many of the partners and staff over the years I find almost all of it unwarranted.

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APRIL 30, 2011

We are investing heavily in these changes. I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category. In Image Ads.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It also says it has seen 10 times growth in its API usage over the past three months. GraphDive uses social login tools such as Facebook Connect, Twitter, LinkedIn and (now) Google+ login to provide deep user analytics for the enterprise via a simple API and enterprise dashboard. Social login tools.

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JUNE 11, 2015

I’ve worked very closely with Matt over the past four years as we share an investment in a company in Los Angeles called NextPlus and we sat on a board together for years. He’s had a ton of recent successes in enterprise software investments but also has a history in doing consumer deals. He’s committed.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. The advisory business I have been running for the past 15 years, Watertower Group, will remain intact as a separate entity. Where are you planning making investments?

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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. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. Think of web vs. mobile. FourSquare. Everywhere. It’s not you.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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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. This year, we were lucky enough to find 40 great startups to invest in, growing StartEngine immensely. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures.

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