Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2011
Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.
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Austin Startup
MARCH 2, 2019
Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate The first post was sent to me by Josh McClure, the co-founder and CEO of Real Massive, who I first referenced in my Lucky7 post about Lola Savannah. How did my co-founders and I apply this lesson at data.world?
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 7, 2010
The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. P&G ACQUIRES ISRAELI MEDICAL DEVICE CO CONTIPI.
View from Seed
MARCH 16, 2016
There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Webb, as well as security-focused TenEleven , co-founded by Mark Hatfield. Want businesses with massive reach and international presence? Want hardcore futuristic technology?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. So many had names of partners (Kleiner Perkins) or local favorite identifiers like trees (Sequoia). I know that I call them often to co-invest.
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