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22 Articles match "2005","Company","Startup"
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
However, in many cases, acquiring companies behave in a less rational manner than Mr. Citrix politely approached us, told us they had an interest in acquiring our company and then asked us, “How much?”
Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. In 1987, a representative of Michael Jackson approached the modest Sycamore Valley ranch house and knocked on the door. The owner of the ranch was shocked by the visitor’s message.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. It’s You can start in a lightweight, community friendly way like on Tumblr or Posterous without much effort.
7 years ago when I used to publicly present what we learned at BuildOnline, team members would come up to me afterward and say, “Wow, we really have learned at lot. I I lived in the UK for nearly a decade. I I loved my experience there and wish I got back more often now. As
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Monday, March 8, 2010
With your printed ticket, security at the entrance would let you past the rope and up the stairs you needed to wind your way back to the theater. Attire ranged from t-shirts and jeans to button-up shirts with coats, with a handful of some funkier attire. They have a different speaker each week, usually announced a couple weeks prior, starting about 30mins in and speaking for perhaps 45mins. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice ” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.” If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. It’s Let me start with a couple of stories.
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It’s that simple. Only
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Monday, October 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. My blog was wiped out. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. The The real irony of the market thaw is that the biggest symbol of the freeze as I mentioned in my last post is when Sequoia released its famous “RIP Good Times” PowerPoint deck alerting companies to dark days ahead and Ron Conway famously wrote emails to portfolio companies encouraging people to slash and save and prepare for the impending doom in the market. This In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Not only are early adopters crazy for this mobile app that helps them find their friends, but as you'll hear in this interview, it's getting enough interest from local businesses that foursquare might end up building the holy grail of local advertising: an ad network that will show you coupons for local business as you're walking past them.
This technology is still in its early days, but I asked Dennis to talk about how the idea evolved and why it's finally starting to catch on.
If you like this interview, you can submit it to my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew
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Monday, March 1, 2010
RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
8221; Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005.
But in the past few years I’ve entered what is called the “sandwich years” in which you start helping to take care of your parents as well as young kids. I 8221; I asked him why he signed up for these services and he said that he wasn’t really aware that he had signed up or why he did. He This has been a year where people got mad in mass at financial institutions. It’s It’s hard not to when you think about the amount of money that flowed into their coffers and
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). This Panel will Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
However, in many cases, acquiring companies behave in a less rational manner than Mr. Citrix politely approached us, told us they had an interest in acquiring our company and then asked us, “How much?”
Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. In 1987, a representative of Michael Jackson approached the modest Sycamore Valley ranch house and knocked on the door. The owner of the ranch was shocked by the visitor’s message.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. The fund is just celebrated its first Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?
Brian
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The highly ranked travel site was founded, and bootstrapped, by two brothers--Eric and David Bjorndahl--and we talked with Eric about the company. (Photo: What's the story on how the site started?
Eric In contrast to a lot of companies, we're still a relatively small startup--it's just myself and my brother, but it supports both of us full time and profitable.
What's We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site.
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