Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). He started off the session of breaking news of the most important product announcement of his life to date – the pregnancy of his wife with his baby daughter. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

While everyone developed their products throughout the day, SWLA teams briefly said hi to Marc Nager (StartupWeekend CEO) during a quick Skype call who was down in New Zealand facilitating Startup Weekend. Sunday morning rolled around and it was down to crunch-time. What a SWLA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Go Boulder!

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , Tyler Crowley – Mahalo Tyler Crowley is the Director of Corporate Strategy at Mahalo and Producer of Open Angel Forum (OAF). Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1

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From the Venture Trenches

MAY 21, 2013

In a recent update on LinkedIn Jason Calacanis recommended raising money on the promise of an idea, before a company launches its product. Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis. He reasons that prior to launch an investor cannot discount your valuation based on sluggish historical performance.

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Daradiction

JULY 24, 2009

One of the benefits of networking for me has been connecting with so much talent, and the icing on the cake is being able to beta some of these bleeding edge products before they hit the market, giving me a competitive advantage. Mahalo (Mark Jeffrey and the gang are super cool and I dig that they made a custom page for me, ha!).

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

For example, if you write a letter, you can post it to Facebook, or Myspace, or send a tweet about it--it's all integrated into the product itself. We met first through Tyler Crowley at Mahalo, and I invited Jason to speak at MOTM. He saw our vision, liked the product, and had gone through something similar.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. New Product Releases Every Month & a Rock Star Product Evangelist. The MySpace product management and dev team, need to bite of smaller projects, get them out more quickly, and make sure they are exposed to everyone visiting the site.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. It was created to provide peace of mind to moms looking for safe, healthy products for their kids. They dropped their number one selling product and switched to a competitor’s product while managing not to lose a single sale.

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