Mucker Lab
AUGUST 27, 2014
In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry. Dealflow in Southern California is much more organic and less efficient.
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. I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are. And for me.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.
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
JANUARY 16, 2012
And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). Not so much. ” We went the opposite way.
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