Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. We’re excited to work with them.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

By technology, he meant the world you and I both live in, of digital, mobile, health related technology, transportation technology--all of those elements. Peter Marx: The Mayor''s office has oversight, along with the city council, for thirty seven different departments, ranging across all kinds of different services.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve is now in charge of Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign (www.telesign.com), which has quietly become a huge force in providing authentication services to nearly every major Internet service out there. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. understand you actually had shutdown the service, and that the company was essentially at the brink of death? Joey, thanks for the time today.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren also wanted regulation in place that would block companies making over $25 billion that operate as social media or search platforms or marketplaces from owning companies that also sell services on those marketplaces. As a whole, venture capitalists viewing the policy were underwhelmed. — Balaji S.

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Technical Review Startup Chief Technology Officer Social Media 144

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. If we were to engage in paid services with you, then issues about disclosure, confidentiality, work product, etc. Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Do I have to write up the overview? You need to be able to share with us without an NDA.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. If we were to engage in paid services with you, then issues about disclosure, confidentiality, work product, etc. Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Do I have to write up the overview? You need to be able to share with us without an NDA.

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. We write and create our own content for the game.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. In general, we seem to be building too many positive re-enforcement systems on the web. But I do know that FourSquare has captured the zeitgeist of what young, mobile & social people want.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA). In collaboration with Marshawn Lynch, the cofounders are planning on making cell phone service free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? The image below shows the relationship of your application to the services provided by the IaaS provider. So how do you figure out where you’ll host it?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Then, Bruce and I met about four years ago, at a company called Evryx Technology/SnapNow, which was a mobile marketing/mobile search firm using visual recognition. So I've been in this environment either as a manager, service provider, consultant, mentor, and founder. Bruce was an investor in the Series A round there.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I do energy and materials investment, Internet investing, digital media investing, and financial services investing. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. Fouad ElNaggar: I think that what we offer to companies is a different level of service, even at the early stage, than super angels can provide.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Here in LA we have a towncar service called Uber that with a tap of an app we can get a door to door town car service ride. Us passengers book a ride via a mobile app and are able to track how close the drivers are plus see their photo beforehand so we don’t get into ‘cars with strangers’. com , but for transportation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). I am really bullish on data-as-a-service. That is conformity.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Month by month, the hospitality business is sorting out how mobile plays a role in increasing revenue and driving loyalty. Write it down…. It drives revenue & engages guests."

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. What we do is kind of interesting, because we provide those two basic services in combination. Our products include open source, as well as software-as-a-service, hosted products. Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple. We do that in basically two ways.

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. All of that represents opportunity, as well.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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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

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2010

mDNIe(Mobile Digital Natural Image engine). Integrates SMS, Social Network Services, email, and calendar accounts. Swype, Write & Go. Web Browsing on the Galaxy S. The on board web browser made it easy to surf the net. EDGE/GPRS 850/ 900/1800/1900. WVGA(480×800) 16M SUPER AMOLED. ECLAIR) / ANDROID MARKET.

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Technical Review Screening RSS Web 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. I’m writing this post from Shanghai. Skype is king.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Furthermore, AltaVista paid lip service to the importance of search, lost focus, and was suffocated by an “angry mob” of search purists in the company who essentially did everything they could to prevent AltaVista from monetizing search. Thank you, John. were doing.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile. How do we make that happen?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. In our regions?

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service. Online radio music service. Targeting SMB’s (small & medium businesses).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com.

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

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. Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. Twitter is a valuable and unique service.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. Not just the fact that you Tweet publicly versus privately, but also that they’re open in letting their Tweet stream flow into other products & services.

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Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. Let me explain. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343