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36 Articles match "2007","2010"
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
IPO successes (as measured by the market capitalization at the close of the first day of trading) include Entropic ($500M IPO in 2007), Divx ($625M IPO in 2006), eToys ($7.8BM IPO in 1999) and Xylan ($2.3B According to Redpoint's Martin, 2010 might be a strong year for exits, with a number of venture capital-backed, Southern California firms currently filed for initial public offerings. A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Join over 1,000 elite business leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs at the 26th Annual Business Growth Conference on Thursday, May 6, 2010 hosted by the USC Marshall School of Business Alumni Association and the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County." Its success in New York quickly led to French Tuesdays being established in Miami in 2004, Los Angeles in 2006, San Francisco in 2007 and Paris in 2009. 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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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Jason Nazar: We've worked on the company for three years, and the site went live in November of 2007. Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up . I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
In October 2007, eager to make extra money, they noticed that local hotels were booked up because of a conference. The founders of Airbnb are guys who couldn't make rent a few years ago, but they kept turning desperation into creative solutions. So they pumped up some inflatable mattresses and listed their place online as an "air bed and breakfast."
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Monday, March 1, 2010
I had an offer to sell my company to Salesforce.com in 2007. Steven I had an offer to sell my company to Salesforce.com in 2007. Steven I was going to save this post for a while but the Patzer Problem meme has forced my hand.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media” is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Thanks in advance! Share/bookmark this:
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful . I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become. Here In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. So So as I contemplated the kick off to 2010 I thought again about Weight Watchers. Problem Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. That’s That’s always stuck with me.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. 1 2 3 next › last » February 2010 login or register to post comments Print Email Newsletters
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Vaultive « Are Derivatives the Real Problem? | Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Click to email him. Categories Current Affairs Hedge Funds Internet Investing Press Regulation Technology Trading Wall Street
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Friday, January 15, 2010
301 Please use the canonical URI”, TRUE, 301); header(”Location: $absoluteUri”); header(”X-Canonical-URI: $absoluteUri”); // experimental header("Link: ; rel=canonical"); // experimental exit; } Subdomains are so 1999, also 2010 is the year of non-’.www’ My Alien skills suck.] How to disagree on Twitter, machine-readable on 7 January, 2010 #link […] long as you operate your own URI shortener,
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
This coming Friday and Saturday (February 12 & 13) TechZulu will be presenting The BIL 2010 Conference live. For For those who may not know what BIL is:
"the concept of the BIL Conference started in late November 2007, when Cody Marx Bailey proposed the idea of going out to Monterey, CA and crashing the TED Conference to Todd Huffman and Bill Erickson. The idea was to simply get a group of people to make the pilgrimage and hang around the area the TED’sters would be schmoozing at night. As the group quickly snowballed from a handful of people to nearly thirty in a matter
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