Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. If your last company was Apple, Blackberry, AdMob or JAMDAT and you have some experience in the sector then I know that your product will have your experiences baked into it. Another example.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Later, when I was in the tax business at Intuit and H&R Block, running those businesses, every year we had to hire a couple hundred tax professionals, who had to unwind the tax code, and who had to write it all down to give again to developers, in order for them to interpret and provide a usable product to consumers.

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. That changed very quickly. And covered we did.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. The notion there is not only would be investing in the venture aspect of the business, but would help tilt the company to success by bringing shared services to help bring their products to life. Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. We think we've really gotten the product validated by the market, particularly with Cyber Monday.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. So I think the hardest role to fill in a startup is a Product Management role.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Tell us about that.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. What areas you personally are looking at right now?

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. They get involved in hard product decisions.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, TRY & TRY AGAIN: Startup Weekend San Diego was held two weeks later at a beautiful venue in the heart of Balboa Park at the Hall of Champions. Because we are still in idea stage, it is in the best interest of the company to keep only a few key people to work on executing the product.

Startup 100

Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Xconomy

APRIL 14, 2017

Whether you are an enterprising app developer building the essential software to bring a virtual Taylor Swift into your Slack chats, or just lonely and in need of a dumb, annoying virtual friend to message you on Facebook, we seem to be clear on one thing: many experiences, apps, sites, and products are breathlessly going to be replaced with bots.

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Google Blogging Sites Software 61

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As a company we’ve had a certain amount of experience working with Hollywood, for example writing all the math for six seasons of the television show “Numb3rs” I hadn’t personally been involved—though I have quite a few science friends who’ve helped with movies. Writing Code.

Hollywood 81

Hollywood Startup Screening Writing 81

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. Let's start with the products. The other thing we will be releasing in coming weeks is an image-based CAPTCHA product.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. At the high end, people can write plug-ins. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae.

Web 100

Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Most of the marketing tools out there are designed to market products with visual and text advertising, which doesn’t work for marketing music. So, one day Yotam and I were driving to San Diego and stuck in traffic and he asked how we could offer musicians the same sort of advertising services that I was used to using in my day job.

Startup 80

Startup Design Advertising Search Engine Optimization 80

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Charley Grant, writing in The Wall Street Journal , commented that, “Any action to curb price increases on older drugs would hurt manufacturers that rely on them to generate growth.” Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Pricing 40

Pricing Competition Blogging Journal 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

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. Contributors include GRAMMY winning composers and Oscar winning sound effects artists and production houses.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. We have the actors, directors, producers, lighting specialists, writers, agents, post-production editors, etc. In our regions?

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313