Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Mobile gifting service. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. 40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. Third, Carlsbad is an awesome place.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. Third, Carlsbad is an awesome place.

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San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Social mobile web. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Competition isn’t the biggest problem in a field so primed for innovation, says Tang, who is. So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers? Plenty, says Chon Tang, one of the leaders involved in launching a new program for chip developers at UC Berkeley’s growing startup accelerator SkyDeck.

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Artificial Inteligence Design Startup Competition 77

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I was thumbing through Twitter messages on my Blackberry on Monday (I use Twitter as a “ mobile first, web second &# product) when I saw the following Tweet (see graphic). I’ve said versions of it on this blog before so I hope it’s not too repetitive. rounds and still be competitive. I think you will.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

The first short message went out over Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, 50 years ago this year—and it changed everything. Much of the change has been wonderful—as the internet has revolutionized communication, commerce, and access to information, in the process transforming and improving the lives of billions of people.

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.Net Commerce Tool Technology 82

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2019

Come celebrate milestones the internet has made over the past 50 years at a special event called Net@50 on July 16 in Cambridge, MA, organized by the World Frontiers Forum and Xconomy. An afternoon forum at the MIT Media Lab will explore the big issues and challenges surrounding the internet.

.Net 79

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Your remote control has two buttons.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? ► October (1) New Video!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

The principal drivers of this re-imagination are the hyper-growth of the mobile Internet, consumer-controlled commerce, the rise of big data, and “globality.” And now we have made the largest cycle of all – the move to mobile Internet computing. Mobile commerce is up 552% in one year (measuring cyber-Mondays).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Location Aware – According to Dick Costolo’s statements at CES, up to 40% of all Tweets are sent via mobile devices, which is a hugely powerful asset for Twitter. DataSift = platform for companies to develop cost-effective applications using this Twitter data to gain advantage relative to their competition.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2018

You’ve made it to Friday. Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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