Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 If it gets broader adoption I think it is a big deal.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

To this end, he and his brother Hank recently launched Subbable , a platform by which content creators can directly marshal their fan''s financial support. As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season. Filling The Screen.

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APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. We’re excited to work with them.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

When I sit down to write every week I never really imagine what is going to end up resonating the most with people but it seems I’ve most often been defined by my post that I Invest in Lines, not Dots. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. So what is an EIR and why Sam? I thought that was the end of it.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. He was independently working on a collaboration platform for writers, and eventually we all got on a phone together, and it clicked. What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. It’s an awesome implementation. New followers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. They then headed back to the USA and UK to get comment and advice on the platform, after which they returned to South Africa, made the enhancements and launched a closed beta in 2011. What is Zunguz?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

Suddenly I look at the screen and 45 minutes have passed. With no platform to really help me with “food coaching” I had to be this coach for myself. Noom worked really well initially because it dealt with the psychology of why people make bad food choices and forced me to write down what some of my bad behaviors actually were.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Take a long breakfast, or maybe even go for a walk to get a healthy break from your screen. This could be as simple as someone around you glancing at the private documents on your screen. If you're working in a public environment, lock the screen any time you're away from it – or better still, don't leave your device for a moment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. From there Rob decided to make a small investment. It’s part of my radar/early warning system.&#.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. Gabe Grifoni: I had actually transitioned to the writing side, and focusing on tech. That got me to CES for some technical writing and journalism, and I started checking out the scene.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. We write and create our own content for the game. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. Unlike those IM clients with a small (ineffective) footprint, Meebo experience is a website and a full page screen. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reading many application reviews, I found the most popular Twitter app on the platform was Twidroid. They are nicely placed, well thought out and my man-sized hands have no problems navigating the screen. A good Twitter app sits very high on my list of requirements. I jumped into the world of Android with my new HTC Hero. Seesmic 1.0

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. The conversation moves from consuming images on a screen in lean back mode, to active engagement. Mobile app? Bijan is right.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I’m not a morning person; in fact, it’s 2pm as I’m writing this and I’m still in sweat pants, but for this, I’ll gladly be there. Jim sees that day, but doesn’t believe the car would be a good mobile advertisement platform. Are you going to be able to get there at 8 for his Keynote speech?”

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Adding the Widget On the "Get the Widget" screen, youll be asked for your token URL. Your article is the only useful information Ive found about Engage but one thing I dont get is, what methods do you say we have to write? (in Is this error related to what Im supposed to write? This can be changed later.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

HV: I would also add one more thing — we have consulted with neuroscience professionals here at USC, and they have informed the development of behavioral science models that we have built into our platform. We had a pretty simple screen, and it had a circle, and it told you how many minutes you were active.

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JUNE 29, 2014

” He was writing to people. My advice always follows along the line of: Twitter is part media distribution platform. It shouldn’t be a one-way media publishing platform. To get on his radar screen. In the first 2 weeks I even saw a few people on Twitter say, “Is that the real Marc Andreessen?”

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Social Media Blogging Media Startup 307

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JUNE 29, 2017

Overall we write about $100 million of investment checks every year. And Stuart Lander is also a partner and runs all operations and platform teams. We don’t mind investing earlier if the situation warrants and we don’t mind leading a B-Round if we know the team well or the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. There is no secret, just a lot of hard work and screening of both startups and investors.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. I live in the city of Santa Monica. My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Your customers are all on this product so not trying to grok this platform gives you a few big handicaps: Some VCs on on Snapchat and interacting with them daily on Snapchat and you’re not. The starting screen every time is the camera. Look at the top of your screen in the middle and you’ll see the Snapchat ghost.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

They realized that as entreprises were increasingly using many different Cloud-based applications they didn’t have good cross-platform tools for deployment, monitoring and decommissioning. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. Cloud Data Platform. Okta solves this and more. Business Logic.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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