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AUGUST 29, 2012

They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. GaiKai had 50 such engineers, which was a large part of its success. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica?

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Of course much of it is conflicting. Damn you, Black Swans!

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. We were weeks from bankruptcy. We were based in London.

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