Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. People either love it our hate it. All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 9, 2014

Like in Los Angeles. Like in the Valley, Internet and Mobile-related businesses dominate - with close to 80% of all venture activity being concentrated in these areas. So smart money is starting to look elsewhere. And there is a strong case that its best investing days may be behind it. Investing Jay Turo'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Read more: TechCrunch.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

IBM is acquiring Worklight , a privately held Israeli company that provides a mobile software platform for smartphones and tablets. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. IBM BUYS ISRAELI START-UP WORKLIGHT. Worklight is IBM’s 11th acquisition in Israel.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. Back in 2010, we were running a digital agency in Los Angeles for premium fashion brands when they came upon the idea for NuORDER. Nobody was leveraging digital, e-commerce or mobile. Photo Credit:Olivia Skuza.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

IBM is acquiring Worklight , a privately held Israeli company that provides a mobile software platform for smartphones and tablets. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. IBM BUYS ISRAELI START-UP WORKLIGHT. Worklight is IBM’s 11th acquisition in Israel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Brands who build pages there are not building equity in the open Internet, they’re building it in today’s walled garden. I’m hoping that HTML5 + mobile will lead them down a more open path. Still, at its core I believe Google’s instincts are open. No prizes for guess who today’s AOL is. Not so open.

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