Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

This year we’re in > 100+ cities and 100+ campuses and we’re operational with street teams, better software, better bikes and a more informed ridership. While the ride-hailing market sees autonomous vehicles as nirvana due to no driver costs, the e-scooter market already has this built in. none of which are funny or tolerable.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology. I think it's a shining example of Silicon Beach's technology helping out Hollywod.

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Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? We checked regulatory rules. We checked efficiency calculations.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. Talent – in a world where startup founders are rewarded handsomely for taking risks of building their own startup companies and where the press shines a brighter light on them, much of the early-stage company traction will come from startups. Laughable now.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The San Diego group also hired its first executive director, Ashok Kamal, and has been working to improve its operations by restructuring and streamlining its due diligence process. CourseKey’s software automatically tracks student attendance, shares key information, and sends pop quizzes to students’ devices.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review San Diego Software Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Mentorship. And so on.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

Here is an entry-level benchmark for the new software personal assistants: Simple and intuitive communication. Technology environment savvy. Technology environment savvy. A good assistant know how get things done efficiently, recognizing user hardware and software limitations. Memorable personality.

Web 98

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

It's a pretty established, mature market, which has existed since the beginning of the printing press, but has evolved forward for hundreds of years and has been going through a lot of changes in the last twenty years. Marc Friedmann: They made lots of correct technology decisions, and they had a good foundation and great developers.

Journal 124

Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Smart business executives learn to use new technology software to give them new insights and more free time. After a good night’s sleep we are relaxed and ready to review the good news, and take on the challenges of strategic issues.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Startup Press 57

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. You can literally click on an "advertise here" link and it will allow you to book a proposal, and that proposal gets build, and you can review, accept, or modify it. I had to build my own tools to manage my profile, so I got into software.

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Advertising Startup Sales Tool 127

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I suppose I should have imagined that this line would get more press than all other comments combined. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. Fair enough. But everything has intrinsic value.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." It proposed to fund advertising to encourage young Americans to enter the science and technology workforce. government.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. They need somebody bending their ears.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago."

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. likely relate to.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. PureTech also bucked the Brexit fallout this week. .

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Buzzfeed News Pricing IBM 59

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Windows Phone. Social media. Google Plus. Social networking.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57