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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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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. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. Total raised: $30mm.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

I had to put in a bit of web research to uncover an intricate web of ownership that leads to the Avis Budget ownership and worse still up to a well-known private equity group called Apollo. He’s ex Skadden Arps (one of the top law firms in New York) and ex Walt Disney legal dept. Hiding from something? … $$$?

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JANUARY 19, 2015

If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. 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.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. They talked about how the dream job for Harvard MBAs used to be investment banking where you wore your Rolex watch, drank $200 bottles of wine at fancy New York restaurants and vacationed in the Hamptons.

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APRIL 17, 2012

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. If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. I know of at least one very clever entrepreneur in New York looking at this space. .&# The theory is simple: our attention is moving from search to stream. Early evidence is good.

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MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. I’ve often talked about the NY advantage of having the NY Times, WSJ, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Magazine and even the editor of TechCrunch based there. It’s awesome.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. They talked about how the dream job for Harvard MBAs used to be investment banking where you wore your Rolex watch, drank $200 bottles of wine at fancy New York restaurants and vacationed in the Hamptons.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. The New York startup scene is vibrant and launching companies that play to NYs great strengths which are many.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. My point is – great companies are being built here like they are in in New York, Boston and elsewhere. So it’s always a trade-off. And of course you have Hollywood.

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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. Skype is an amazing web company. Apple built the product, so no doubt it will be freakin’ awesome. million of our 17.5

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. The “ Amazon deal &# was so large that, according to another Revolution portfolio company Clearspring , it materially changed sharing on the web that day.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. 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! – and why it would become a powerhouse.

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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. Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. has now made these analytics available to the public. ParisHilton shares 1.7

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MAY 7, 2011

They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. He asked himself: programmers know how to make web sites, why couldn’t programmers create their own site and answer their own questions? How did MSFT lose the API war?

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