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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. Over the past 2.5

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Hold team meetings, team building events, and outside the office team meals and group activities that encourage employees to bond and reawake their networking muscles. How The Streaming Network Created Powerful Employee Experience to Boost Employee Productivity. Smart Hustle Resources: How to Engage, Motivate and Retain a Remote Team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

When Evan Rifkin of.App/Ads launched a new ad network for iPhone (and soon to be other devices) applications I knew he would have a very strong offering out of the box. He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled.

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FundersClub

JUNE 30, 2017

" Lingokids , a developer of language-learning services for early childhood, raises $4 million in new funding, and Wonderschool , a network of boutique early childhood programs, raises $2 million in " K-12 Dealmaking: Hero K12 Takes In $150 Million; Lingokids Raises $4 Million. million for its K-12 online learning marketplace.

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MARCH 1, 2011

After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Part 2/3 of Interview: Mike Joins Quigo as CEO, Sells it to Aol for $340 Million [ Minutes: 13 – 30 ]. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

You have other people who can market for employees… So let’s go back then to that growth of between 2007, 2017, this 10 year, and how’s grown. How are you getting leads in and customers in, and then two, what’s your advice for other small business owners? Ramon Ray: I love it. But who’s your leadership?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

SXSW is where Twitter broke out in 2007. They will be there mostly to network, go to parties and hang out. Focus more on networking at events than attending presentations. These are tech launch events designed to see new startups unveiled. I’m talking about big, garden-variety, industry-wide, schmooze fests.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. He pinged me for advice. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. was still a term being bandied about.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The attitude was “I’ll be damned if those young kids are going to get rich off of our infrastructure.&# Needless to say BT didn’t follow the advice of my paper and it went bananas for content deals signing a string of money-losing content partnerships. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example).

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