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OCTOBER 24, 2013

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. Matt Cooper: What we're really trying to do, is reshape the advertising space. We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond.

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Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

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Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies. I got that up and running, got a seed financing done, and got the technology built.

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Does advertising work in the social networking world? What are the risks and rewards?

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available. Inside that solution, we have technologies like artificial intelligence, data analytics ,and security for streaming machines, and so forth. By doing that, we are a turnkey business-in-a box. I have a Ph.D.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We're a business that has both advertising revenues and subscription, a blend of both. in 2004, we purchased Buoyweather.com, moved it into our setup, weather department, and marketing department, and in 2005, we added much more multimedia news and entertainment to Surfline. That turned out to be a good move, because it got much worse.

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Web Content Mobile Sites 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. We were able to meet the who's who of Internet technology.

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Startup Mobile Culver City Los Angeles 177

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. The region has produced 95 exits over $100 million (13%), 50 over $250 million (7%) and 23 over $500 million (3%) during the period analyzed. IPO in 1996).

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Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. The exciting this, and the biggest benefit from bootstrapping this from recruiting, is I've been able to develop, and hand-pick a world class technology team.

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Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media. Sherry Gunther: We're using existing technology.

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher Scherzay: I spent 20 years working for the industry, working for Lucent Technologies. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. What's your background and how'd you get into the startup area?

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For us, digital media means consumer Internet, online advertising, mobile, gaming, and most importantly--this is Rick and my background--next generation infrastructure to support consumption of this media. Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002. Thanks to our advertisers. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+.

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Sherman Oaks Riot Games Tips Redpoint 44

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Well, that technology came from an L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. A large amount of this new fund, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, is focused on technology in the financial services sector. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us. We're taking it seriously. That as unhealthy.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers. Addressable advertisements are capable of being targeted to the individual household.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Kevin O'Connor: I've been really fortunate in life, in that I love technology, and love solving problems. Although we're not going to be focused on revenues for a year, it's clear at this time that this kind of real estate is very valuable for advertisers.

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Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Beatriz has been a tireless public advocate of the role of Latinx leaders in startups, technology y media. Advertisers, wake the f**k up. 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. Latino purchasing power will reach $1.7 trillion in 2020 (U.S.

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Media Content Course Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. Businesses are also one-click from advertising through Google and now Facebook.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." It proposed to fund advertising to encourage young Americans to enter the science and technology workforce.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype.

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Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Cyber Monday was officially termed in 2005 by the National Retail Federation after 77% of online retailers reported a surge in spending on the Monday after Thanksgiving. The future of Black Friday will ultimately depend upon the next generation of shoppers and their preferences, who have made clear their affinity for new technology.

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Sales Startup Mobile Report 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. True entrepreneurs always find a way to move the ball forward, without barriers.

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Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. These companies advertise. Cash will continue to become less relevant in 10 years as electronic & mobile commerce continue to proliferate and new technologies like NFC drive change. tl;dr summary.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78