Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. THAT is the power of exclusivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. And Facebook continued to innovate while all this time I have continued to wonder WTF LinkedIn was up to. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool. Powerful stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! But in addition to structural reasons such as the market upturn, the increase in IPOs and the need to put capital to work, some real innovation has also encouraged a new round of investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. I was a former entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

In this special interview, Zak and Ryan offer insights into their EO journey, the decision to adopt a new business model, and how a flat focus has led to a surge in productivity and innovation. In 2006, we officially launched Punchkick Interactive. ZD / “The advice channel is the single biggest component to going flat at Punchkick.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

We were innovating. Back in 2006 Facebook made a conscious decision to encourage the platform ecosystem even if it meant creating large businesses like Zynga (Slide & RockYou were the initial big players) that could make a lot of money off of Facebook. In the early days it was such a great company to work for.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. Juniper and countless others. Today there’s many.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. .

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice. Propel(x): What role do you see angel investors playing in furthering clean-tech innovation?

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