Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. Feeding The New Networks. Mark provides an excellent primer regarding the future of Internet TV HERE.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

The San Jose, CA-based company, begun in 2003 by four co-founders who bootstrapped its funding, has built a customer base of 1,100 firms including Google, GM, Siemens, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Juniper Networks. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I thought this was a good time to reflect on some lessons of the past 10 years. We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S. Over the past 2.5 When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s But here’s the big “aha.”

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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%). The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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MARCH 29, 2014

They get pissed off if a senior executive at Google doesn’t take a meeting with them, if people are late to their meetings or if they have emails that are unreturned. And they take out that resentment against anybody else that may show signs of one of these past patterns. But how do you get past gate keepers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video.

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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). in exits.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

But what's also happened, is we've narrowed down the set of networks that we use as consumers to engage with companies. Once you get past Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and maybe Yelp and Bing, you've counted for 90 percent of all interaction. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. The post amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder appeared first on TechZulu.

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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. The law proposes that the value of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of endpoints—an idea that turns out to.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)? Don't bet on any one platform. Or Tapes and CDs?

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. His team--which has followed him from his past firms--has a number of successes under their belt. which he sold to AOL.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

All of this has become a lot more relevant lately given social networking. 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.” He has founded a new social networking site called AnyBeat to take on this issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Both Sides of the Table

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 want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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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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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. We are going through lots of data and networks, understanding who is a good match for existing jobs, to figure out how to scale that referral process. How does SpringRole work? READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

Much of the effort in the past year has been focused on improving the toolset, allowing contributors to create their own test and development environment with less effort and to optionally focus on just the frameworks or platforms of interest to them. large instances. large environment. Windows support has again fallen behind.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 31, 2007

We finally are starting to hear what Google's anticipated alternative to Facebook as a platform. If you've talked to me in the past few months, you probably know that this is something I've been grappling with across a variety of projects/domains. With Google's entry, there's a nice alternative to Facebook and the key word is "open."

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). They have grown at a 200% CAGR over the past 4 years. As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. THE FULL STORY.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

But Google has closed the London branch of its Google for Startups Campus. They recognise the value that in-person collaboration and networking brings.” It seems likely to us that while some growing businesses will learn from the mistakes of the past, many will also be doomed to repeat them.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 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. This morning, we have a contribution from Michael Terpin , the CEO of Transform Group International and Chairman of BitAngels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2013

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. That doesn’t address social networks and other lists you may have. Social networks have added additional layer of complexity to this challenge.

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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. A Strong Alumni Network. Not to mention there’s a chance at a possible investment from the Established Investment Community.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Those are broad areas, but we are not doing some deals like we have in the past, in biotech and other areas. We are seeing a lot of success at SupplyFrame, and also at a past investment of ours at LeisureLink, which has a marketplace for vacation homes. Consumers and you and I have been trained by Google and Amazon on expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the bottom line is the Network (N). In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. The WWW is the presentation layer.

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Both Sides of the Table

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). On the surface the narratives have been. The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. Why is this? .” The iPhone was released.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

It became clear that the people with scale are famous people, so we set about building a network of influential people so when a marketer says, ‘I am looking to reach moms on Twitter’, we can match them with a couple of dozen celebrities and say ‘All of these women reach moms on Twitter.’”. all of the above?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. That doesn’t address social networks and other lists you may have. Social networks have added additional layer of complexity to this challenge.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In the meantime, here are 10 notable reactions from around the Xconomy network, mostly via Twitter. He has an awesomely difficult task, since it is long past time for us to face up to our country’s problems. Google’s Adam Singer : “Party is prob over for Silicon Valley for now Trump presidency means recession time.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)? It was a big year for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.

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