socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

income tax charge to write-down the value of U.S. The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M The loss came due to a $27.6M

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. 2011 Rank.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans. What''s enabled the firm to raise this fund, at the same size of your last fund? It''s the single best.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Later, when I was in the tax business at Intuit and H&R Block, running those businesses, every year we had to hire a couple hundred tax professionals, who had to unwind the tax code, and who had to write it all down to give again to developers, in order for them to interpret and provide a usable product to consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We do, as of the writing of this in early December, seem to be seeing a correction at this time. The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years. I had expected a correction much earlier in the year and I was wrong.

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JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts. So which is it? Bull or bear?

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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 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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MARCH 3, 2012

I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. I decided to write a $2+ million check along with my co-investor who offered $750k. I think you should look at it.”

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Kanye West.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. What kind of writing and writers are you targeting? People can write comments and rate publishers, which we vet very carefully.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2014

In 2008, Adam simultaneously founded three ventures while working a day job. His advice is to, "Write a polite email that shows you’ve done some work to understand who they are and what they’ve done, and then say you would like to take them to lunch at their convenience to thank them for their contributions.” Benedikt Scholz.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I knew it wouldn’t last forever, but 2008 accelerated its demise and while we continued to do great things, fate and progress eventually took control and it was over. Today, as I write this, I’m working on several deals in the world of coffee and other food products. I looked back. This time, I would just keep going.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2009

The loser will have grow a mustache, commensurate to which round in the fight they lose, plus write a hand written note to the winner's mother, apologizing for losing to the winner.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I will write about some of these topics soon. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

.” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. A normal VC fund raises a new fund every three years if they are strong performers. Luckily, LPs seem to agree with this thesis.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? Everybody knows a quick $50k write-off is easy, better, faster than the alternatives and better to focus your limited time on finding the next great team to back. His editors can’t be wrong, can they? This is a hard one.

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JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. Our original company was Collar Free, kind of a Threadless for fashion. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. It's similar to a franchise.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The company had a huge burn rate but investors and management brought that under control by late 2008.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The best part about Tongal is anyone who wants to write, act, direct, and/or animate videos can join for free. Tongal may have been out since 2008, but the combination of big name brands and a large community already puts Tongal on a whole new level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Bill Gates of Microsoft, even late in his career, wasn’t afraid to jump in and write some code to illustrate a point. Now he has over 20,000 stores.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

WePay was founded in 2008 by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in 2008 but launched publicly in March 2010. The name came from the earliest iteration of our product, which helped groups of people pool money for shared expenses. When was it launched?

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Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social.

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2013

Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Bill Gates of Microsoft, even late in his career, wasn’t afraid to jump in and write some code to illustrate a point. Now he has over 20,000 stores.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# And time is the enemy of all deals so start sooner rather than later, as anybody who was planning to raise in October 2008 will tell you. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe that.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money?

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Today, I received this email from the BBB: We’re writing to let you know that during the past month the Reliability Report that we publish on Make It Work was accessed 6 times. When I got there, two complaints were showing, both from 2008. 2008 Closed Complaints – 2. Again, thank you for your time and support!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 million cap I am assuming when I write the check that I will own 10% of your company.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Lucky is a hybrid – half agency/half production company that writes, directs and produces viral films and branded content. . Emily Goligoski is a Strategic Programs Manager with online publishing company Federated Media’s and writes about arts, culture and design innovation. Cameron Olthius 5ones.com. . Greg Cargill bigMETHOD.com.

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Social Media Social Network Media Writing 75

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2012

Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Bill Gates of Microsoft, even late in his career, wasn’t afraid to jump in and write some code to illustrate a point. Now he has over 17,000 stores.

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