Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. I was an idiot.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine a scenario where a user has a specific question in his mind and decides to search for it on the internet. It uses smart algorithms to analyze the given text at semantic and syntactic levels, understanding the intended meaning of the text. While he may open some of these articles, he ends up skipping the actual reading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

For some reason, I haven’t heard much about the next generation of the Internet ( Web 3.0 ) lately, which probably means it isn’t happening as fast as everyone predicted. I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. are appearing.

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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. These are businesses aiming for scale and impact, not merely monetization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. There are a myriad of ways to make this happen in the world of startups. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. There are a myriad of ways to make this happen in the world of startups. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2016

He called his dream the Semantic Web (or Web 3.0), meaning that it could learn and interpret the user context just as human personal assistants do. Today’s personal assistants seem focused on expediting the Internet search process and simplifying text-intensive device control commands on your smartphone or tablet.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. How about Jana , which brings internet access to the developing world and boasts 30 million global users? To name a few: 1. More exciting, industry-leading companies.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Internet of Things. semantic web. ReadWriteWeb | Startups | Small Business | Enterprise | Cloud Computing | Developers | Mobile. ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends. App Stores. Real-Time Web. Structured Data. Top Topics. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense. Indeed, big data has been an important trend this year, with many startups like Factual leading the charge. Data as the Next Layer of the Cloud. Discuss.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created Factual. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

buzz is hype, but things are changing on the Internet, and bits and pieces of Web 3.0 include mobile and residential phones with high quality video, virtual shows surpassing live events, more intelligent semantic search information, and the openness of the Web. Tags: entrepreneur startup opportunities web 3.0 are appearing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. People neednt be scared thinking they need $50k around to build a startup. because if theyre smart or they have a different way of doing things, they dont.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup. The sailboat startups don't invent a product out of pure imagination. You have to be addressing a really nasty pain point.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. humbledmba.com) 279 points by jaf12duke 216 days ago | comments. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

A s TV’s gradually get connected to the Internet, there is an increasing appetite for smart content recommendation. Jinni , an Israeli startup offering a taste-and-mood based guide for movies and TV shows, announced yesterday the closing of its $5 million series B funding.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We’ve consulted and implemented projects for companies from Fortune 100 firms to small (successful) startups. We currently work for a top financial services firm while we focus the majority of our efforts on our startup. We are a startup and this is essential (and non-negotiable). JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

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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. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Mike believed that any valuable page was going to be monetizable on a cost-per-click basis in relation to every page on the Internet.

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entrepreMusings

MARCH 6, 2010

The first was an Semantic Web Austin event hosting Mark Greaves from Vulcan Inc. Paul Allen’s asset management group – www.vulcan.com ) to discuss the opportunities in the semantic web space. With the Semantic Web, you can ask things like “How many white elephants are there in China who belong to people making over $10K?”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2010

This is likely the least hungover you’ll be during your time in Austin, so take advantage of it with a 9:30am panel, Innovation Overseas: The European Startup Environment. Monkeys with Internet Access because I’ve been wanting to hear Clay Shirky. 3:30pm – *Cue self-serving segment* Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 11, 2010

For me, Twitter is now borderless and operates at internet scale. When it comes to brand promotion, marketers will drool over the semantic data and opportunity to engage consumers on a unique level. Twitter’s Pipe Could Benefit From Gatekeeping. Passports are the ear marks of life.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

I'm sensitive to the combative tone some have tried to take the conversation, which isn't an accurate reflection of what I said. startupcto

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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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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Moreover, videos are semantic search friendly , meaning Google will prefer listing videos on the search results when people are looking for more information related to the product. Last but not the least, try creating a Vblog because in the coming years, vlogs are going to rule the internet. Videos are one of the best content types.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. So is the internet.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. davidbeisel | LinkedIn. Sector: B2B On-Demand.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. davidbeisel | LinkedIn. Sector: B2B On-Demand.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? Many startups these days are first-time entrepreneurs. is lowered.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

IBM Global Entrepreneur , the computer giant’s entrepreneurship outreach arm is looking for the smartest early stage startups around the globe that will help solve tomorrow’s problems. So who are the “Smartest&# startups in Israel? Check out the list after the jump.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you live in an area that has "hacker" or "startup-weekend" type events where idea people are teamed with developers, it can be great way to get some free (or low cost) experience in what it is like to work with a team of developers, narrow the scope of your project, and understand what it takes to get to v1.0

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