Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

They have an expectation that the IPO will be in 3 years and they were in at the ground floor. All deals – especially (but not only) those that got venture funded. In LA we have www.socaltech.com but in every market there’s some sort of database. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They have a cute little app that takes a picture of a business card, populates your contact database and data is confirmed through crowd sourced labor. Given the issues we had in the past around allocation of IPO shares, this would be a very sensitive issue. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture News.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. In old-school resume databases, most talented professionals didn’t want or need to participate. LinkedIn would create a networked resume document — a resume 2.0 — instead of traditional job listings with private resumes.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Social networking. Social/Sharing. About VC Cafe.

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