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26 Articles match "2005","Startup"
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Fortunately, we had several alternatives available to us, including:
Access the public capital markets via an initial public offering (IPO)
Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies
Do nothing – continue to run our business “as is”
Although this option was not attractive to the management team, it was a viable alternative circa 2005 and it would have allowed our institutional investors to liquidate their investments. In 1987, a representative of Michael Jackson approached the modest Sycamore Valley ranch house and knocked on the door.
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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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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.” Let me start with a couple of stories.
A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. He’s He’s been at it since 2005. We 8221;
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
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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. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then).
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. My blog was wiped out.
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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 hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming 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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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
In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. 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. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
In 2005 they plugged a couple of mics into a computer and created an internet radio show called “Keith and the Girl.” You might have noticed that Microsoft has been a big supporter of my events for startups? It’s because they have evangelists who are paid to encourage startups. Can you imagine having a community of fans that’s so passionate about what you’re doing that they tattoo your image on their bodies? I
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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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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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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Phonevite , a startup which operates a service that allows groups such as schools and clubs to make mass phone calls to many people at once, has quietly relocated to Los Angeles from Silicon Valley, according to the firm's CEO and co-founder, John Nahm. The firm, which offers both free and premium mass notification systems, was started in San Jose in 2007 by Nahm and co-founder Kalvin Kim. Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Phonevite is angel backed, and allows users to record messages via the web or a phone, add phone numbers
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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 year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market.
Let's Let's start with 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.
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