Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I know it’s not what it used to be, but news flash – it’s still a million dollars! That’s emotionally unproductive and you can deal with those stresses if you get the bad news and roll with the punches then. How can you wake up every day and process that decision. Five million? Upside scenarios. By the lyrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Apple’s pivot to services has been a mixed bag, and the company is looking to expand the appeal of its Apple News service to a wider swath of free and paid subscribers. This week, the company rolled out a local newsletter in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing bundled local news curated by the Apple team.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Los Angeles-based e-commerce fashion brand NastyGal has filed for bankruptcy, after failing to find additional funding-- even after news of a "cram down" round in October. According to the company, founded by Sophia Amoruso, it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Yes, sometimes the news is not good. Would bad news drive your best employees out the door? That form of open book management surprises many, but if the employees are stakeholders with a taste of equity, why not underscore the value of that equity by treating them as cohorts? They should know this, and from you not from the rumor mill.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers. Sometimes I just scan and other times it serves as a launching-off point for me to digest the daily news. Titles are an enticement to read a post. It’s how we inform ourselves these days.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The results web site now includes a "framework overhead" chart inspired by comments from Hacker News user goodwink. This new chart type compares frameworks versus their underlying platform (e.g., Unfiltered versus Netty; Spring versus Servlet; Rails versus Rack).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

And we chose to locate ourselves 3 blocks East of The Third Street Promenade where much new development is taking place. Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Please help me spread the news as only RTs or FB Likes can! (

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

I’m excited to share a short conversation with Andrew about today’s news and where the company is going, which you can see here : [link] We cover: Density’s growth and transition through the past two years of a pandemic where?—?turns is changing the way companies, real estate leaders and employees think about and measure these major assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

Most board members don’t have the intention of checking email, reading the news or sending a quick text message but just like most smokers don’t want to pull out a cigarette?—?the Best will in the world the most disciplined people in the world have a hard time resisting “just quickly checking” their text, email, news when they’re board.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

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. I notice, for example, that some CEO’s on Twitter never do anything but parrot their companies news. Talk like a human. Give real answers. I find this so inauthentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Think of it as Bloomberg for marketers, in a way that gives smaller companies and teams as much firepower as larger organizations to help them optimize spend across channels and identify new, high-performing opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

As a news junkie and seeker of information, I’m that guy who always has his car tuned to KPCC everyday to get my daily dose of NPR. But I’ve seen first hand when I lived in the UK how great public funding of news can be with The Beeb. Virgin America. Jon Stewart. Fareed Zakaria. David Brooks.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 7, 2018

This news comes following reports of Lime raising a $250 million round led by GV. Lime has also added an additional brake, to have one on both the front and rear wheels. Lime, which also has its pedal-assist electric bikes out and about in the LA area, says this is the first multimodal transportation service in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If you start with a POV rather than product features / functions or your own internal news story you’re already a long way down the track of answering the above questions. And journalists eat that s**t up because it has all that they’re looking for: facts, charts, an angle, news, something that their readers care about, etc.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

” Jessica Alba, the co-founder of The Honest Company, took to Twitter earlier in the day to share her own reaction to the news. As a mentor we drew on his wisdom, passion and drive everyday… In the short term our thoughts and hearts are with him, Gianna and his surviving family.”

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shares of Switchback II Corporation are off more than 14% in morning trading today, appearing to sell off sharply in the wake of news that the blank-check company’s merger with scooter company Bird has been approved by shareholders. first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Well, after all the disappointments, pressure and outright failures, this is NEWS. One thing a senior manager can count on is that someday, something will go right, very right. So we tend to go overboard a bit.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2020

I have to start by saying that the most important thing about being cited in news sources is that you have to be newsworthy. Choosing the right content idea. Now that might go without saying, but what we as marketers might consider newsworthy about our brands isn’t necessarily newsworthy to a writer or to the greater public.

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Tech.Co

MAY 16, 2024

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Yes, sometimes the news is not good. Would bad news drive your best employees out the door? [Email readers, continue here…] That form of open book management surprises many, but if the employees are stakeholders with a taste of equity, why not underscore the value of that equity by treating them as cohorts?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

[Email readers, continue here…] Perhaps better examples to point to are easy to find in the toy industry, where recalls because of small parts that could be swallowed by infants or lead-based paint or flammable components make the news on a regular basis.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

News of Fika’s second effort comes as investment in LA tech continues to reach record highs. The firm was launched in 2017 by general partners Eva Ho and TX Zhuo, formerly of Susa Ventures and Karlin Ventures, respectively. In total, more than $60 billion was invested in LA startups in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Let me start with the news that I’m excited to share with you. After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 3, 2022

Get the latest news delivered to your inbox — whether you're at home or in the office. Even if it takes off, given how slow new tech adaptation tends to happen, we can safely assume we'll still be using plenty of Square hardware like its familar white dongle for years to come. Sign up to the Tech.co newsletter.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 11, 2018

“That’s news to us, we have a contract with both,” wrote an executive at a leading scooter company, when asked about the deal and its implications for the scooter business.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

What was the big news for you or your company this year? Michael is a bit of an honorary Southern California, spending a large chunk of his time in Los Angeles (where he's built many of his companies) although he's now officially living in Puerto Rico. Michael is a huge early adopter and proponent of Bitcoin.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 24, 2022

The news that tech companies are reneging on job offers is worrying – it’s such a damaging thing to be made public in the context of future recruitment, and the ‘whiplash’ – going from rapid hiring to rescinding offers in a short time, is extremely uncommon. Get all the latest tech news straight to your inbox.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News. “I think in the short term, we’re going to scale up to meet the needs of the province soon.

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2023

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This news made Round 12 unusual: rather than wait until we can equip and configure a new environment, we decided to conclude Round 12 while the current environment remained available. Round 12 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! A race against the clock.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Get the latest tech news, straight to your inbox. Don't miss out on the top business tech news with Tech.co's weekly highlights reel. Please fill in your name. Please fill in your email. Please verify before subscribing. TikTok Teams Up With Ecommerce Startups.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Despite the good news, investors would be wise to not count their chickens before they hatch (or are formed into chicken-like approximations from pea protein and a mix of other ingredients).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2020

Thus you must make positive surprises more frequent, like special lunches or activities, to override the occasional unavoidable bad news. New life experiences have more impact than reward objects. That means it pays to elevate people’s mood at the start of a team effort by using refreshments, good news, or an interactive activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Our big news is announced in this DataSift CEO – Time for Growth post – it’s worth checking out. You’ll see more news from the company over the coming months. He called this initiative VEDO and launched it quietly to some of our bigger customers. So the next chapter of DataSift is underway.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? Today, we share the thoughts of Greg Monterrosa ,a startup community leader who is currently Startup Weekend organizer, facilitator, and mentor and was a former Founder of MyLLC.com and Hub101. The continued growth of startup communities in Los Angeles.

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