Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you. If they’re not at a minimum you’ve shown that you’re thinking of them and you’ve stayed on their radar screen. And I know many stories of Benchmark or similar investors writing term sheets after the first meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. really understand it. New followers.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. People say we’re crazy, but we know creators are legit businesses,” Karat writes on its website — the company didn’t respond to a request to chat about what they’re working on. Last month, the product launched with $1.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. Jordan Hudson. So what is an EIR and why Sam? I thought that was the end of it.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. 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. Sunil Rajaraman: That's a good question.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

I mostly talk about startups, technology & venture capital. Suddenly I look at the screen and 45 minutes have passed. 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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Coach Startup Guide Journal 538

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? At JAMDAT he designed the most successful mobile games – (Bowling, Bejeweled Multiplayer & Solitaire) and knows what drives engagement on “the small screen.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. 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.

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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. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens!

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Something happened and it was clear to me that this IE issues was just a smoke screen. VCs have a seat at the table in deciding future investors. Be gracious.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

For Friday''s interview, we spoke with Terry Kay ithe new Chairman of the Pasadena Angels (www.pasadenaangels.com) on the group, and its relevance in the technology funding world today. First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Something happened and it was clear to me that this IE issues was just a smoke screen. VCs have a seat at the table in deciding future investors. Be gracious.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2014

“The most exciting products on the market are set to disrupt what we know about technology and innovation, just as the iPod and iTunes changed the way the world buys and listens to music.” ” Smart products need to have added value, according to Itzkovitch in his article published on Medium.

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Belkin Startup Google Press 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. ” Fair play.

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad on blogging.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. I’m not arguing that no screening is required. My credo has always been JFDI. Good enough isn’t.

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Startup Technical Review Framework Entrepreneur 335

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Steve Jillings: We have really big stuff coming in 2012. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Want to take a year pursuing your dream to write a screenplay, travel through Asia, run a triathlon or start your own fashion line?

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Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. ” Fair play.

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. Why the name? Why should people use Zunguz?

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Something happened and it was clear to me that this IE issues was just a smoke screen. You are most vulnerable right after it has been announced that you won (I will write a separate post on this). Write things down. We met everybody in the organization.

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Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. But when I read thoughtful pieces on the future of technology I start to imagine where our lives will be in 10 years. That’s always stuck with me. We’ll see.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2010

A bright and beautiful screen thanks to the Super AMOLED display. Swype, Write & Go. Dedicated zoom buttons, double tapping the screen and multi-touch pinch-zooming are all available to you. It features an on-screen QWERTY keyboard by Swype in both landscape and portrait mode. Aldiko e-book.

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Technical Review Screening RSS Web 40

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. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Skip classes.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

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. Optimization technology is not new. I’ll explain in detail below. Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

I’ll try to get write-ups shortly but for now here is an overview of my interview with Nanea Reeves – President and COO of textPlus. Nanea Reeves has a storied career in senior leadership roles at technology companies. Office politics – including Nanea’s experience being a woman in technology.

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Technical Review Blogging RSS Organization 315

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

The sensing technology, too, is unique to our solution. We had a pretty simple screen, and it had a circle, and it told you how many minutes you were active. So you write your hypothesis on what’s called a business canvas model and then you go talk to your potential customer. It is built out of 5 years of research at USC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. Talk us through how the person using your product is benefiting through your technology. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand. Far more expedient.

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Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

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. Dan Gould is the another founder of Chill and leads the technology team. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

’ When you use technology for a really long time you begin to spot patterns. I registered it in my mind at the time, “hmm, a screen cast while you’re on Skype, that’s pretty clever.&# CloudShare as a product also sounded like a great idea to me. I’m writing this post from Shanghai.

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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. The Connected Car , where automotive and technology (outside of vehicle performance and earth saving “greenness”) collide.

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Advertising Startup Marketing Mobile 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. 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. But we do have great technology developers. In our regions?

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

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.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

they’ll continue to look for independent technology partners. And I think the smartest hardware providers & MSOs are the ones that will sign unique and daring partnerships with startup technology firms. We all saw what happened when technology let us buy singles on iTunes rather than whole albums pushed by record labels.

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