socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

Unlike Yelp and listings sites that are focused on user-generated reviews or things like that, we're really a portfolio sharing site, and a tool of professionals. He and I connected, and walked through PartySlate and what we were doing, and he immediately said he wanted to invest and become an advisor to the company.

Technical Advisors 100

Technical Advisors Technical Review Metrics Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Search engines. like Google.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. Maybe even as powerful as search. billion to Yahoo!

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. What verticals are you thinking about?

Content 165

Content Demand Sites Media 165

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. Today Blodget is focused more on attracting eyeballs to his site than banking fees for a multi-billion dollar Wall Street firm.

Blogging 45

Blogging News Journal Invest 45

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. Today Blodget is focused more on attracting eyeballs to his site than banking fees for a multi-billion dollar Wall Street firm.

Blogging 40

Blogging News Journal Invest 40

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. And And after 30 years of Venture investing we still have a hard time articulating why. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191