Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I’m enjoying the creative process of getting my own personal thoughts down in writing. And I’m enjoying being part of the two-way conversation again as I was from 2005-2007. I’m enjoying reading all the new content created in the tech / VC industries. Thank you, Twitter.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. For instance, in a section describing the ramifications of a No-Shop clause, Matt writes, “Insist on spelling out key terms prior to a signed term sheet if it has a no-shop clause in it.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games. We started the firm from scratch, basically with just ten people. That certainly can change the outlook within months.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? What must a startup do to motivate you to write them a check? You decide how much you want to invest in your employees and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Is that when it became big?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. Big thank you to Ramin Vaziri (aka RamVaz - a regular live watcher of our show. and Half.com.

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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). They started in January of 2005. Can you tell our readers the story behind how you found the company?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

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MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. No Dave S. =

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly.

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MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet. That was in 2000 and 2001, which was not all that long ago. If you think that it is easy, however, you'll be disappointed.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 I am not suggesting these are bad sources of capital – they are not.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

All we have to do is look at the data, though: Since its launch in 2005, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has sold 66 million copies worldwide. Credit for the writing and research of this article and content goes to Zack Schuler of Cal Net Technology Group, Founder & CEO. That makes it the first in console sales.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. And I hope the output is that you get a glimpse into the people shaping our tech present and a sense of the kinds of conversations we have when the cameras aren’t around.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. I believe that.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Plus, we will provide resume writing services. What's your background and what drove you to start ResumeBucket? Josh Stomel: My background is in the recruiting industry.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We'll even write a half a million check. To answer your earlier question, if we're getting involved in earlier stages, is GRP wants to do A round investments. That as unhealthy. An A round investment in this market is a million to $4 million.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. As the co-founder of the Underground Comedy College, for the past 3 years he teaches classes in stand-up, improv and sketch comedy writing to aspiring creative performers. Thanks to our Sponsors!

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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. I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question. msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. —

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. As the co-founder of the Underground Comedy College, for the past 3 years he teaches classes in stand-up, improv and sketch comedy writing to aspiring creative performers. Thanks to our Sponsors!

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Market Size.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. 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. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. Tempus Fugit.

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MAY 22, 2010

billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 I had expect a Q&A style session and as I asked the first question – BOOM – he went straight to screen sharing using his term sheet write-ups on VentureHacks. billion).

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APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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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. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. If I write about something that isn’t compelling I can see it in the unique reader numbers. Let me explain.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables. By then the open-source movement had really developed.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. The arguments “for” of many market participants ring as hollow as they did in 2005 when they told me I was an idiot for believing that Florida real estate prices would drop or in the dotcom 1.0

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. It’s all dumped from memory without further thoughts and didn’t face a syntax checker. I consider this pamphlet kinda draft of a concept, not a design pattern or tutorial. I’d be happy to discuss your thoughts in the comments. Thanks for your time.

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