Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. It is often the situation that the incumbent offers a product that is vastly superior in the market in terms of performance or functionality.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2014

When you think about hot sectors for startups, the construction industry is not typically the first place you''d expect. So, we were surprised to learn about the backing that Los Angeles-based mobile app provider TRUCKAST (www.truckast.com) has from investor Gary Winnick (who co-founded Global Crossing).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Yesterday I wrote about how to talk to investors about your competitors. In short, acknowledge they exist, be transparent about strengths & weaknesses and use your differences to talk about how you want to position yourself in the market. But forget talking about them, how should you actually treat your competitors?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot. Tell us about what your business is nowadays? However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. Talk about those operations in Guatemala?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). And they don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

In it he talks about the skills of willing an idea into existence and whether those are the same skills to take the company to the next level. I asked him about his thought process because Jason has already built a very successful business that has become the clear market leader in Marketing Automation for Phone Calls.

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Demand SaaS Startup Sales 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2012

The firm is not new; the fund has been around for two years with investments in more than 45 firms as listed here. A 2011 McKinsey Global report says Big Data is the next frontier for innovation,competition and productivity, this could be reason the seasoned investors and executives believe these are big data days. Big Data Shift.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Oracle Software Review 74

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Started at Oracle as one of its first employees. We thank you! IoT: Rufus Labs.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Product Development: philosophie. Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Execution: Execution - the hard task of turning ideas into products that people will buy - is what separates successful entrepreneurs from dreamers. What is your plan for completing the development of your product and getting it ready to market? What does the product cost to manufacture? How do you manufacture and distribute it?

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Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Of course I have. No Dave S. =

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APRIL 10, 2010

and listening for about 90 seconds. for two minutes talking about why I think people wrongly obsess about their number of Twitter followers and had a nice little debate about it with Guy. Think about the creative tension. But wait, aren’t you the guy who invested in Ad.ly, the in-stream advertising company?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why Invest? Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Please don’t also confuse this with whether a VC should invest in a CEO who’s done it before – that’s a given. I’m talking about what most of you are tempted to do. Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is?

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

One of the questions I’m most often asked as a VC is what I’m looking for in an investment. For me I’ve stated publicly that 70% of my investment decision is the team and most of this is skewed toward the founders. This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. I called Ismael directly.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. The units, asking $500,000 to $2 million, hit the market in about a month. In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. VENICE RISING. Venice: 13% | L.A. County: 0.9%.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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