Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker. CEO/President is Karl Siebrecht (ex-Pres of Atlas at AQuantive and ex-GM of ad platform product management, search and display marketing, and mobile and gaming advertising for Microsoft). Tags: Start-up Advice. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Even if he is a Redskins fan He showed me this concept nearly a year ago and he’s managed to keep the company mostly under wraps while they perfected ad units, the data measurement and user experience with advertisers such as Toyota, Microsoft, Universal Pictures , Saatchi & Saatchi, Universal McCann.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is? IBM, Microsoft, Oracle) as long as they’ve done a start-up after that before coming to you. - Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. Not so fast. Let me tell you my story.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. Tags: Start-up Advice. MBA fine, but not required. It’s hard to start companies and take risks when you’re $150,000 in debt. Okay, now you can shoot me.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 19, 2010

Yelp just showed its true colors: It’s not a startup anymore, and it will try to crush anyone that gets in its way—Microsoft 90’s style. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. That’s not the kind of place innovators tend to like to work. Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results. Tags: SoCal Stuff. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Competitors: VivaKi (Publicis Groupe) , FatTail , AdMeld , Rapt (part of Microsoft Publishing). Tags: Start-up Advice. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Each month over 2 million unique visitors come to our site. Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. We have a deep technology stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. Salesforce was very good at managing the 1-year roadmap so at any point in time we had a pretty good idea about what we would be developing and what we wouldn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

60 deals, 16 already acquired (by Google, Twitter, eTrade, Intuit, Microsoft). Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. But to understand how super-angels and not just VCs get in on this act check out Aydin Senkut’s record.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Even Microsoft publicly said that there were security flaws with 5.5 Tags: Startup Advice. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0 which was in beta). Losing sucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Even Microsoft publicly said that there were security flaws with 5.5 Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0 Losing sucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Those who are old enough will remember stories about Microsoft that even as it was going through explosive growth Bill Gates still flew economy and the parking lot was first come, first served. Tags: Startup Advice. It was a sign of honor to see whose cars were closest to the entrance and whose were still there when you left.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The price tag matters, but how you ensure the customer can afford the product is important too. Partnering with Microsoft. Dell has partnered with Microsoft to offer its business customers more tools and products to maintain efficiency, especially when working from home. Microsoft Teams is truly about collaboration.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

He’s ex Microsoft so has real world company experience and he’s knowledgeable about many market areas. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. That wouldn’t surprise me. This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. He’s a guy that I’ve always liked. These are all “billion dollar industries” he says.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Jason’s cutting wit and insightful commentary made for entertaining listening on topics ranging from the Microsoft / Yahoo! Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology. He then led us through a series of discussions about the most relevant topics of the day along with Chris Tolles, the CEO of Topix.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

And look at this post by Paul Kedrosky showing how much cash Microsoft, Apple & Google have ! M&A Outlook for 2010 / 2011 – Tags: SoCal Stuff VC Industry LA SoCal startup technology vc venture capital. Right now this isn’t robust because the buyers are bottom-feeders (e.g. Love to hear more views! .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. I will continue to look for “lean&# teams, co-investors on deals to help get through any rough patches and entrepreneurs who have the resiliency to make it through whatever the economic conditions throw at us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

But there are also major mobile initiatives by Microsoft (Windows 7 Mobile) and eventually Blackberry surely will pull their heads out and deliver a real browser experience (how such a great company could have missed this for so long confounds me … but then again look at what happened to Palm). Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Its features include optical character recognition, smart tagging and search, and protection for sensitive data. For example, it creates files that are compatible with Adobe products and is integrated with Google Workspace, Zapier and, in the near future, Microsoft Teams. “In Instead, its solutions are complementary.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

And Microsoft always convinces me that their next version of Windows won’t be slow and I get fooled every time. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Many serial entrepreneurs who have been burned would use something less kind than quotes. Yeah, I know.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Two years ago, Microsoft debuted SharePoint Syntex, which leverages AI to automate the capture and classification of data from documents — building on SharePoint’s existing services. Today marks the expansion of the platform into Microsoft Syntex, a set of new products and capabilities including file annotation and data extraction.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

First, the possible $10 billion exit of Discord to Microsoft. Our goal will be to vet whether the price tag in question makes any sense, or if it is too low. Discord and Microsoft. Microsoft might be getting good at community, which is an odd thing to say about the enterprise software and cloud computing giant.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. The workflow revolves around search and a chronological timeline, allowing users to attach topic tags, tag other users and add recurring reminders to notes.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. There’s a lot of value in pulling in all of our correspondents into a CRM, but only if most of them are tagged as “acquaintances” so they don’t make the database unwieldy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The airline has a new electronic bag tag that is making everything about checking a bag easier, Frederic writes. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc. If you are looking for an easier way to get through the airport, Alaska Airlines is here to deliver. Jaclyn also reports on Rolls-Royce and Hyundai partnering on air taxi hydrogen fuel systems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The company today announced that it raised $25 million in Series B financing led by Zeev Ventures, with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund) and Vertex Ventures, bringing GrowthSpace’s total raised to $44 million. government agency, Microsoft, Siemens, EY and Johnson & Johnson.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The 5 best email clients for Mac Apple Mail for a great, free Mac mail app Microsoft Outlook for people who value features over simplicity Spark for improving your relationship with email Canary Mail for a security-focused Mac email client Mailspring for a fast, free, and featured-filled Mac email client What makes for the best email client for Mac?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. We shared our disappointment at Blackberry even though we’re both faithful users. Read more: DST Press Release.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

Microsoft To Do. If you love writing a to-do list and often have multiple lists on the go, the Microsoft To Do app is a lifesaver. You can also share your boards and tag others on your notes when you need to, making collaboration much easier. You can create multiple boards, lists and cards where you can set tasks and add notes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

I distinctly remember being impressed by the possibilities of D&D on an original Microsoft Surface… back in 2009. We can do unique identifiers with tags and custom shapes. The idea is to provide a digital alternative to physical games where that’s practical, and do so with the maximum benefit and minimum compromise.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There are problems with Slack green light or any other tool like Microsoft Teams if use them to measure your employee’s productivity. For instant messaging platforms, don’t tag someone in a channel unless it’s urgent that they see the message. And for complicated topics, you should probably hop on a call or schedule a meeting.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Searching the titles, descriptions and tags of videos was always easy enough, requiring no more than a basic algorithm. That being said, Google, as well as Microsoft and Amazon, offer services (i.e.,

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

Even Microsoft publicly said that there were security flaws with 5.5 Tags: Start-up Advice. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0 which was in beta).

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Just a ‘realignment’ : Microsoft is the latest Big Tech company to announce layoffs. It has a bit of a hefty preorder price tag — $499. Tune in tomorrow, July 13 at 2 p.m. ET by following the @TechCrunch Twitter account; we’ll announce it when we start! — Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3. The startup brought in $2.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Granulate’s solution is software that sits at the server layer — either in the cloud or on-premises, as a customer prefers — that uses AI to detect workloads that a customer tags as important and prioritize them so that they work more efficiently.

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Haystack

JUNE 25, 2018

exits like that of GitHub to Microsoft make the big waves, acquisitions like that of AT&T buying AppNexus can feel, relatively speaking, small — but that would be a mistake to perceive it that way. Some of the most recent investments in the company were likely done at a price which is not that far off the final price tag.

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