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OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Our software just has to be on a user's device, and we have lots of ways to get there.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Traditional software vs. SaaS. and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question. Most VCs are book smart. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. FourSquare. Everywhere.

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JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster! Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash.

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JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Marks: When I started my first software business, still in college, and was asked to meet Steve Jobs at Apple to show them our new Apple ][ software called Jane. Then, I’m doing emails, accounting, HR, writing proposals, interviewing potential hires, and other random tasks until noon. If so, what were they?

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