InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The loss came due to a $27.6M The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M Ixia is a developer of hardware and software used for testing high speed networks. Tags: results equipment software hardware testing network ixia. in Q4 of 2009, on record revenues of $56.1M

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Ryan and Stacy co-founded Telesign over 15 years ago along with their co-founder, Darren Berkovitz. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

Perry Wallack, the CFO of Cornerstone OnDemand, recently talked at the Recurring Revenue Conference, describing how the company was looking for funding in the worst possible market--after the downturn in 2008--and struggled trying to find an investor, finally raising a round in March of 2009.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We are focused on the investment in and acquisition of software firms that are generating $2.5M They've grown their businesses through word of mouth more than through a large, established sales organization and they have done that by building a software product that is very well received, and unique in their particular niche market.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008. Their investor bootcamps help educate new investors about due diligence, valuation, and more.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path. But, going down that review path was not where we wanted to take it, or at least, not where we wanted to start.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Felicia is the cofounder of Black Tech Week, Code Fever, Tribe Cowork and Urban Innovation. Siggi is a principal at Samsung NEXT in San Francisco, where she focuses on early-stage investment in frontier tech software companies. He has over a decade of portfolio management in capital markets. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path. But, going down that review path was not where we wanted to take it, or at least, not where we wanted to start.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons. At that time, digital accounted for “less than 1/10 of all coupons distributed.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm. What's the story behind the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. The platform is also being used by SFArts and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to create useful tools for the public using open data—stay tuned for these new apps which are due out later this year. Technology moves fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This is set to complement Groupon’s efforts in yield management due to its 40 percent discounts for each table. Groupon said it launched the system due to customer demands. “In Groupon was founded in 2008 and is headed by Chief Executive Andrew Mason and claims to have helped over 250,000 businesses grow.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. First, for our readers who aren't familiar with your software, can you explain what it does?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. The top quartile funds have performed well. Many funds have not performed and will start to disappear.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

We had the chance to speak with William Volk , Chief Creative Officer of Playscreen (www.playscreen.com), who talked how his company is looking to crack the code with Crickler 2: Daily Word Puzzle , which is among the most popular puzzle games on iTunes, and recently number one in free educational games. stars, mostly five star reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I wonder, though, how much of that is emerging market and how much of the industrialized nation growth is due to stimulus money, which in turn either dries up or forced inflation?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

That's what the Cogi service offering is all about--giving you the ability to capture, review, and share the content of your important conversations. I can review it myself, both in audio form, or text form, and share it with others. Even before we began the process of starting work on our software, we did extensive market validation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Make sure to tune in! From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Is this hardware, software, a combination of both? Dr. Ramin Sadr: We had to innovate, in everything from the antenna devices, to RF markers, to DSP hardware, and HDL with our DSP and ASIC components--all the way to our DSP real-time software and our protocols. So this technology is now being deployed? READ MORE>>

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

in addition to "127.0.0.1", the code to use is as follows: Order Deny,AllowDeny from 127.0.0.1Deny from 192.168.1.1 You may add as many IP addresses as you wish, although if your.htaccess file becomes very large, your site may become sluggish due to the number ofrules the server has to process each time it has to deliver your sites pages.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

As I earlier suggested, part of the problem is due to the organization of Washington, DC, right down to fiscal years and annual budgets. social software tools involves the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander – which is Twittering live from Mars, so to speak. Army, for example. I hope that these trends carry over into STEM education.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

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Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person.

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