Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. Geographic expansion.

Startup 142

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 142

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 2.0. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 was starting. You still need the presentation to back that up. Brad on blogging.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

The firm--which launched in early June--also said that that it now has offers to sell Facebook, Tesla, XDx, eHarmony, and LindenLab shares, as the firm's marketplace starts to gear up. SharesPost, headed by Greg Brogger and incubated by Brighthouse, is looking to create a Web 2.0-enabled READ MORE>>.

Research 100

Research Sales Web 2.0 CarsDirect 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. business culture issues market pace startup culture'

Startup 98

Startup Marketing Web 2.0 IBM 98

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we turn again to prolific blogger and local venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners , for his insights into how a wider experience--beyond the confines of the startup world--can help you as an entrepreneur. It was an enterprise 2.0

Web 2.0 124

Web 2.0 GRP Partners Blogging Web 124

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese. We're about a week or two from launching version 2.0,

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. startups, and Calacanis has increasingly directed Mahalo along the path of editorial content. AOL was the buyer of TechCrunch.

Mahalo 124

Mahalo Web 2.0 Blogging Technical Review 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We sat down with David to catch up on what Geni and Yammer are doing, plus got his insights into entrepreneurship and the Paypal mystique.

Yammer 133

Yammer Geni Startup Southern California 133

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Im very happy with the time Ive spent building up my LinkedIn network.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

Santa Monica-based ExpenseBay has opened up a public beta release of the firm's expense report automation service, the firm is announcing this morning. The service--which is similar to Web-based personal finance tools Mint and Wesabe in its use of Web 2.0 ExpenseBay said the launch follows a six month private beta.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Santa Monica SaaS Report 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

For as long as I can remember, computer users have been complaining about the array of names and passwords required to get work done – a different unique user identification name and password are required to start the computer, email, social networks, banking, read online news, connect to the office, or check your phone bill. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 79

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 79

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy. How did decide to start a company on focused expense software?

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. The protagonist is Balram Halwai.

Class 334

Class Writing Web 2.0 Offshore 334

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Greg Brogger: By way of background, I started at Wilson Sonsini as a securities attorney.

Startup 124

Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. Consider MySpace and Webvan. Geographic expansion.

Startup 89

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). I'm also interested in technology companies, in data analytics, and low CAPEX hardware. Lots has changed since 2009.

Invest 113

Invest Capital Venture Capital Idealab 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

One of the recent trends in the technology industry here in Los Angeles is the use of "coworking" spaces--flexible workspaces where companies can rent open office space. Chang is looking to open up two to three more similar spaces in the next year. We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0,

Startup 100

Startup Web 2.0 Tsavo Userplane 100

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. What we were looking at, when this first started taking off, was using instant messaging lines and really trying to see how people were using them socially.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. Consider MySpace and Webvan. Geographic expansion.

Companies 75

Companies Company Startup Web 2.0 75

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. We caught up with Jason and Kurt to hear more about the company. What's the story behind the company and how it started? Jason Kiesel: Yes.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 Alex Aydin: I've been in the technology sector since 1987. Around that operating system, we developed a line of network attached storage, at a company called Procom Technology.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Marketing Web 2.0 100

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. Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 We'd always talked about starting a company together. The funding is a requirement to get to the next step.

Content 138

Content Writing Hollywood Software Review 138

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. In addition, Web 2.0 What is CHNL?

Social Network 104

Social Network Networking Content Web 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 The key driving factors to Web 3.0

Web 88

Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

So the technology has been around for a very long time. I believe that when you marry the web and technology out of the game industry, you can empower people to really exploit the potential that virtual worlds have to bring people together and socialize. We know what we wanted to make, and our technology is up and running.

Web 100

Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. About The Show: TZLaw Segments are: News You Can Use: a weekly roundup of top tech law headlines and analysis geared towards lean startups. Follow TZ Tech Law on Twitter at @TZLaw.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. Consider MySpace and Webvan. Geographic expansion.

Startup 53

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 53

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. When you are running a big company--or any company, big or small--frankly, you end up spending less and less time close to the product. Thanks for the interview.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ► May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. No, it’ Startup 2.0: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite&# - The Internet Needs.

Startup 40

Startup Advertising Web Design Venture Capital 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I mean they just had their formal product launch in April 2012 and was a runner-up in NBC’s Education Nation Innovation Challenge in October 2012, which hails in comparison to the recent contractual partnerships they are forming with education pillars. Pathbrite’s Web 2.0 Entrepreneur Nuggets.

Education 63

Education Web 2.0 Course Platform 63

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ▼ May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Startup 3.0: So, I am on to Startup 6.0.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ► May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. No, it’ Startup 2.0: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite&# - The Internet Needs.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40