Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Co-Working Space.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. A Sense of Purpose. Conviction.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2011

San Diego-based SwoopThat.com is a site targeting college students that lists courses and the required textbooks for those courses in hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States. The time factor is what makes this technology unique,” says Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat ’s co-founder and CEO. “As

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

He co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads , now in its sixth edition, which is the world’s best-selling book on Google Ads, with over 130,000 copies sold. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value For listeners and for brands.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks. A very basic prototype, built primarily by team member Kian Katanforoosh , a master’s student in computer science and management science & engineering, is already up and running. I started looking forward to each Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks. A very basic prototype, built primarily by team member Kian Katanforoosh , a master’s student in computer science and management science & engineering, is already up and running. I started looking forward to each Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me. So I think that that’s one area where we’re seeing Google — again as you said blending the natural or organic results with paid results and they’ve been doing this in a lot of different industries as well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He the CEO and co-creator of business and let’s just face it, a sport called Crossnet. Me and our founders, we actually aren’t volleyball players at all. So my friend Mike, our co founder and partner, he graduated from Northeastern and he called me up one day. Find out at gusto.com/tape. This is John Jansen.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. San Francisco - San Francisco has actually successfully co-opted the Silicon Valley magic and even surpassed it in some ways (Twitter, Salesforce.com); it’s again a very hot place to be right now and this will continue.

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