Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA is powering a web performance optimization service for WordPress blog owners this morning. NetDNA said that W3 Total Cache , which develops a plug-in for the popular WordPress web publishing software, is using its MaxCDN services to help its customers with optimizing WordPress sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2012

Pasadena-based X1 Discovery , the electronic discovery offshoot of X1 and Idealab, reported Tuesday that it has launched a fully cloud-deployable version of its software. X1 Discovery said the new product, X1RD, is a "sister product" to the firm's more traditional, software installed X1 Social Discovery application.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

Software terminology is stubbornly not following a similar evolution. It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

High-performance software warms our hearts like a Super Bowl ad about water or an NBC Olympics athlete biography. But really, who doesn't love fast software? We used run ed713ee9 from Server Central and will update this blog entry to cite the Azure results for Round 15 when they are available. Performance. In Progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In the industry they’re known as “conference ho’s.&# OK, they’re known as conference “whores&# but that sounded too harsh for a blog post. Name one, professional conference attendee that has built a successful software business? They are CEO’s addicted to the schmoozing.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. New dependency tool that helps organize, unify, and simplify required software (e.g., software such as python2 is now easily loaded/reused without contributor knowledge required). Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! The highlights for Round 11.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are. Be respectful.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. An external consultant helping the Thames Water procurement team overturned the decision to use my company and got them to select a small software company. I won, that is, until I lost.

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socalTECH

MAY 31, 2013

The launch is actually the second for the software developer; Babblr said this launch is supported by Realtime.co babblr tumblr chat photo blogging chrome browser extension' The Costa Mesa-based startup said that its chat extension includes such features as group chat, profane language censorship, customizable settings, and more.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2014

Incentive is led by Rickard Hansson; the company''s software offers up activity streams, wikis, blogs, and other social apps for companies, which operates behind a company''s firewall or in a private cloud. incentive incentivecorp sweden venture capital social software saas cloud intranet sharing business enterprise'

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Both Sides of the Table

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. the rest of the time.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. Towards An Integrated Approach to UX Design You should definitely look at Steve Blank's book and review his blog. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP.

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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. Here is the outline of the talk and some links from prior posts that talk to the issues that I discussed in the talk. The "Questions" post is probably the most important.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2014

ReachLocal said the new software helps SMBs to drive organic search traffic to their websites. The new product works directly with its new marketing automation software, ReachEdge, and is the first search engine optimization product to come from ReachLocal. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. How did you and Charlotte get into software? SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms. But when you produce on Internet you can test your content in the same way that Silicon Valley firms test early versions of their software.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Now, more and more, we''re extending our use cases into not just websites and blogs, but also to lots of web application use cases. So, for us, competition is good.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. Chris talks in his blog post about your A round pricing being lower if you have a VC seed investor.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

As noted in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , this is a symptom of the old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Then, a month later, the product is still 90% done. And six weeks later – 90% again! The last 10% takes the other 90%. innovation

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor. And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

The startup--headed by Matt Edelman--said it has added such features as contest creation; ways to highlight collections of its digital magazines in Facebook, a blog, or web site; new e-commerce ability from within its magazines; an iPad app; and Google Image search support, among other tools. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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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. Mostly so that we can use the opportunity to write a blog entry and generate hype!) And anyone else who cares about fast software. More on that later. Dockerification… Dockerifying… Docking? On to Round 17!

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Framework TechEmpower Platform Metrics 377

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

A lot of the feedback we got from those users was that community was a killer, we love these communities, can we put them on our own site, on our own blog, can we skin the community so that it's in our own look and feel, and can we put all these features on our own site. So that's what the Lunch Network is.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. If you never read it, please do.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD).

Startup 337

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Marketing futures can be really good for enterprise software companies where the information is passed between sales rep and potential customer in terms of near-term roadmap. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. If you never read it, please do.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space.

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