article thumbnail

The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. They are negative-as-hell free riders with no personal ideas for how to make things better.

article thumbnail

Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

Innovid has developed an interactive pre-roll ad format called iRoll, that encourages users to click on moving objects with the interactive ads before watching the video. million to date and has managed to sign partnerships with some of the web’s leading video publishers. Led by Tal Halozin and Zvika Netter, Innovid raised $7.1

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation. An online marketplace that uses live video chat to buy and sell knowledge, advice or services from experts or Ninjas.

article thumbnail

Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

On the former I mentioned a video that I shot for This Week in VC talking about how Farb Nivi solved this problem: “Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company. I chuckled. We all know ex McKinsey people, don’t we?

Finance 286
article thumbnail

Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

You probably know that Disney recently paid nearly $1 billion to acquire Maker Studios (Upfront backed) and that is really just the 1st inning for online video companies hatching out of LA. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3

article thumbnail

The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. now fighting Germany, and the Soviet Union looming as a potential adversary U.S. code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. By the end of WWII, with the U.S.

Minnesota 317
article thumbnail

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

This post makes a lot more sense if you look at the earlier posts as well as the video and slides. In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. We flew these unarmed planes in and out of Germany alongside our bombers and basically built up the “radar order of battle.&#