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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The professor plotted data and showed us statistically that most people buy stocks when they are booming (e.g. GRP had a small dose of foresight (we were very bearish in 2007 – ask anyone who presented to us) and a smidgen of luck (we closed our new fund Dec 2007) that we did very few investments during the 05-08 bubble. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. Just ask anybody
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Perhaps this explains why in 2007 we saw an all time high of CEOs leaving their posts. And globally, 32% of CEO’s were forced to leave their organizations “against their will� -- statistically shortening the average term of a “global chief� to just 6-years. ( See Forbes article ) Is it just harder to be a CEO today than it was in yester-year? The AeA Los Angeles Council proudly brings Bob Fox to the table tonight to examine not only that question, but to identify the common traits and characteristics of what turns a CEO from savior to barbarian. ( See keynote
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.4 millions jobs have been lost since 2007 in the US, and more are predicted this year, even as we slowly approach recovery. For our Insights & Opinions section today, Cathy Ashbaugh, President of Pacific Shore Resources, a local recruiting firm, gives some well timed advice on how to handle a layoff:
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
billion, down 3 percent versus 2007. The results were the first decrease for holiday seasons since 2001, when comScore began gathering e-commerce statistics. Holiday shopping on e-commerce sites declined by 3 percent, according to the latest numbers released by comScore, which tracking online spending and internet traffic. comScore reported Tuesday that spending for the holiday season, beginning November 1st and ending December 23rd, totaled $25.5
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. 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 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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Sunday, September 13, 2009
The 39% growth in 2007 for console games should cement the fact that the industry is booming. http://www.mpaa.org/2006-US-Theatrical-Market-Statistics-Report.pdf
A while back (March 2008) I wrote an article for Game Developer Magazine on what was coming up in gaming.
Most of these predictions came true, but that is not remarkable considering that we were only looking a couple years ahead.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies. We track certain statistics, including checklist items and usage. This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. We sat down and spoke with Milo Sindell, one of the founders of the firm, to learn more about how the firm came about and what it's trying to accomplish.
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