SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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JANUARY 18, 2015

I used to love blogging. Blogging proved to be a great way to hone my ideas, have public conversations with people and as it turns out – build meaningful relationships through public dialog that spilled over into the real world. Somewhere along the way blogging changed. Fred Wilson said as much in his blog post today, too.

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MAY 28, 2015

1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. 5/ Twitter doesn’t support Tweetstorms so the community developed the norm of responding to your own Tweetstorms to create a single thread. I faced the wrath of the community. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder. Homework I don't think that this founder has looked at my blog or my background. I've removed the two words that described the market - otherwise this is verbatim.

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MARCH 14, 2013

The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. And I’m sure it’s not lost on you that my tips and my blogging are, in fact, POV marketing.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. It’s a highly engaged audience and the content generated from many of the blogs (not all) are highly valuable. If you use any standard commenting system on your blog or website you’re sub-optimizing engagement.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

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AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Have a listen and see for yourself.

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MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. It’s a continual process.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). Investing early in the lifecycle of a startups history where we can have the biggest impact on strategy & team development and deliver the highest returns if we are successful. But I miss blogging.

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MARCH 15, 2010

He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog. So when I saw the merely mortal Tristan with a normal sized Twitter following I clicked through to his link, saw his blog, saw that he was a second year at Stanford and just thought, “hey, he seems like an interesting guy. before having 300k followers!).

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JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read. I could link to a bunch of blog posts that come across this way but prefer not to single anybody out. Here’s the deal.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. But I never gave up.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

Irvine-based Bitvore , a startup developing big data and intelligence-gathering software which pulls information from both public and private data sources for businesses, said this morning that it has closed a $4.5M, Series A funding round. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

This is a longer-than-average TFB round announcement blog entry, but there is a lot to share, so bear with me. Expect to hear more about this as the plan develops during Round 17. We also want the ever-increasing diversity of options for web development to be represented. More on that later. Continuous benchmarking.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2013

Fanmix , a startup developing "social inbox" software to manage a user's social conversations on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, comment threads, and elsewhere, has spun out of Los Angeles-based Social Engine , according to Social Engine co-founder and new FanMix head Charlotte Genevier.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When frameworks and platforms lift their performance ceiling upward, application developers enjoy the freedom and peace of mind of knowing they control their applications' performance fate. High-performance frameworks take but a small slice and give the bulk of the pie to the application developer to do with as they please.

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APRIL 12, 2017

People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. And every leader also has teams with constant priorities where they need: Input, feedback, decisions or meetings. The modern world is daunting.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

So when they spoke about character development, repeatable gaming experiences, bringing games to multiple platforms (in the industry we call this “ Transmedia “) and physical products my ears naturally perked up. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. We all loved Andrew & Petri and their vision.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. About this blog. We discuss technology, development processes, the challenges faced by our clients, and the solutions weve put to use on real projects.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. The "Questions" post is probably the most important.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend. So consider this my first-ever guest blog post. She’s “type A” and I’m “type ADD.” With a tiny bit of ghost writing from me. Cheesy stock photo mine, not hers.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2020

The UC San Diego Health System has developed a diagnostic test that can determine whether a patient has contracted the novel coronavirus in about eight hours.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing. The money slide is the graphic below. Social networking is peaking.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. I know that “Mobile First” has become engrained in developers minds.

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JUNE 30, 2014

He has a long career in developing products and companies (such as Pogo, Excite@Home, Demand Media, The Daily Plate and now TasteMade) discussed much about his career choices and lessons. In the most recent episode, I interviewed Joe Perez , Founder of Tastemade. If you don’t know Joe, you should.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22! Context and use case determines how you optimize your code. btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. Zero thought = flying blind.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. Engineering is critical but it is not everything. What you agree / disagree with.

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JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And I was so pleasantly surprised to learn that Randy Churchill will join Cooley’s LA practice as head of business development.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re a developer you ought to be asking yourself the question. I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. I’ve often had the debate about Facebook Open Graph and what is appropriate to post in it.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 years ago.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. It’s been a really exciting time for me personally to be able to see a partner come in with the energy, enthusiasm and new ideas that remind me of myself 6 years ago.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="[link] frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catalyst for Brad’s evolving view of marketing was THIS blog entry by Chris Moody in which he pointed out that much of Foundry Group’s thought leadership efforts are essentially a form of guerilla marketing.

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