David Teten
MAY 1, 2013
This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace.
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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. Stamps of Approval” and “Opportunity”.
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APRIL 17, 2012
Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google.
www.drowningamerican.com
JUNE 22, 2012
We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Venture Capital.
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