Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

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MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! There are 20x more consumers online.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Press the flesh.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). Then came the second wave with Skype (2003), Blackberry Messenger (2005), and Google’s first incarnation of its messaging app, Google Talk (2005). billion MAUs for the top four social networks. billion MAUs for the top four social networks.

Lead Generation 91

Lead Generation Channel IP Conversion 91

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. 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. And Social. Yesterday was a Monday.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343