Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Everyone in the outside world is talking about how great you are but internally you know that your sales aren’t ramping, your product isn’t shipping on time, you have doubts about the quality of your code, you’re not convinced you’re doing a good job on marketing – whatever. You’re stressed. Not so fast.

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 With the iPhone, Apple finally broke the hegemony that the telecom carriers had over mobile applications and that has stifled innovation for too many years. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

He spent years in the early days of many great Silicon Valley enterprise software companies including Oracle and McAfee. What happened was the explosion of mobile phones, the decreasing effectiveness of banner ads, the limited appeal of filling out forms in mobile browsers and, BAM! – the market moved massively our way.

Demand 150

Demand SaaS Startup Sales 150

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. He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

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. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. We thank you! IoT: Rufus Labs.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. You’re not in the grind of your staff being constantly approached by every other start-up within 10 miles. So it’s always a trade-off. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. And Wikipedia is deflationary meaning it takes the costs of production to almost zero.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. No Dave S. =

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. Viddy, a mobile-video-sharing company, has its office a block from Google in Venice. Google says on its website.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44