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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. Who else would publicly try to launch people into space so that one day we might be able to fly people from New York to Tokyo in 90 minutes.

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Technical Review South Korea San Francisco Software Review 417

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JUNE 8, 2010

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. With all the external presenters, the ones I enjoyed the most were Dan Senor who wrote the book Startup Nation (an examination of the Israeli technology scene).

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JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I also made several trips to New York & Boston. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. Many large clients prefer stable technology and no changes – even sometimes when there are known security flaws. When I was at Salesforce we launched a new version of our UI.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I also made several trips to New York & Boston. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. Many large clients prefer stable technology and no changes – even sometimes when there are known security flaws. When I was at Salesforce we launched a new version of our UI.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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JUNE 27, 2011

We all know that much of early-stage technology startup success comes from execution and often what you’re working on today will be rolled out more seriously over the next several months. But don’t let this information get out into the general press and don’t market more than a few months out.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

They are some of the most talented young technology entrepreneurs in LA. They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post. Let’s just say that the market didn’t exactly embrace his changes but directionally I think he was right (in hindsight). An example: My best recent example of this is Ophir Tanz and Ari Mir.

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Entrepreneur Term Sheet Early Stage Affiliate 291

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JULY 11, 2010

Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then? These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. The latest technology lab that I came across was dogpatch labs run by Polaris Ventures.

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San Francisco Incubator Silicon Valley Startup 285

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MARCH 12, 2013

After that you could tell that Greg was really “all in” on the LA technology community. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are.

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JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We need to deal with the rapidly rising housing costs in our nations centers like San Francisco, LA and New York. And then there are the Jews of which I am one.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

You must invest in technology. Yet to develop audiences you also need to understand: compelling content, sound, special effects, etc which is why most online video startup digital media companies are in Los Angeles or New York and not Silicon Valley. You should be able to convert at least 5-15% of your audience.

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MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 It’s awesome.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

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APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Don’t you think? Not derivative.

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MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. He wanted to bring the same level of technology focus and energy that Mayor Bloomberg had brought to New York City.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Formerly known as Fonelet Technologies. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. You can hear his full argument in the interview.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

A fellow thinker and tinkerer of technology. I knew Shafqat as a reader on my blog and then I was introduced to him on a trip through New York. Test: open your twitter stream, look at the 1st item in it, think of something to say in response, say it. Theory: it’s really that simple. I consider Marshall a business friend.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Beatriz has been a tireless public advocate of the role of Latinx leaders in startups, technology y media. The population is now approaching 20% of the US population, 40% of California, 40% of Texas, 25% of Florida, 20% of New York … this is a multi-cultural country already whether Trump’s base likes it or not.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

” Lady Gaga played 4-5 clubs a night in Los Angeles and New York when she was a relatively undiscovered talent. . “You can’t fall off the floor, so let’s get to work!” ” And as with tech startups there is truth to the adage, “The harder I work the luckier I get.”

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We can technology enable offline advertising. I know of at least one very clever entrepreneur in New York looking at this space. The person calling obviously wants to speak to somebody, the publisher drives a lead and can get compensated, the advertiser has a warm call and the affiliate network can earn a network commission.

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Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. I saw the product recently in New York and loved it.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. You just don’t. Get over it.

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JUNE 16, 2016

One of the most obvious to me was Nanit, that was brought to our firm by my colleague Jordan Hudson who met them team, fell in love with their founders & technology, and encouraged us to invest. He and I attend board meetings together in this NYC-based (and Israeli) company. The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If you don’t know David he’s the guy who will be running TechStars New York starting in January. One of the things we were chatting about was how many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down.

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JUNE 13, 2011

The New York times came out with their list of companies impacted by Apples new releases and all of the major group messaging companies were on the list of companies in need of checking their shorts. Apple built the product, so no doubt it will be freakin’ awesome. Yes, we’re a fanfamily.

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SMS Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 325

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JANUARY 31, 2010

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. I plan to keep track on DailyBurn to measure my weight through a new wi-fi enabled scaled from Withings. I’ve written about the technology to lose weight in this post. I thought that, too.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

The Hidden Impact of Technology on our Everyday Lives … There’s an old (semi true) parable about frogs boiling in water. In times like these we reflect more about life in general and about the impacts technology has on our lives and on our society. But most technology impacts us in imperceptible frog-boiling like ways.

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JULY 6, 2015

We have strong theses in key technology areas. And we have national deals in New York, DC and Chicago. You FEEL unique but when you meet your ultimate fund-raising customers (investors) the law of large numbers means that they’ve seen a bunch of companies saying nearly identical things as you are. We are hands on.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

And oddly it took an investor in New York to highlight to me Cornerstone OnDemand – one of the most successful software company in my home town of Los Angeles! 12:45 Describe the structural, cyclical trends you’re seeing in technology. billion market cap so he has a history of weighing in early and being right.

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JULY 10, 2011

Here’s some examples you can infer from the social data: @SnoopDogg has more Twitter fans in Texas than he has in New York. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days. has now made these analytics available to the public. ParisHilton shares 1.7 million fans in common with @BritneySpears.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. But I loved reading them and so did my team. 15 minutes.

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Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

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NOVEMBER 12, 2016

These are people who now live in Los Angeles, San Francisco or New York City but grew up in Cincinnati, Central Florida, Utah, Michigan and similar places where their parents, families or friends may have different political views.

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