socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Might Oak said its founder, O'Brien, previously was a development and content sales executives for Warner Bros., before leaving in 2005 to found Might Oak Entertainment. Mighty Oak Entertainment is best known for its "Whacked Out Sports" clips. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE. MindTouch, which was founded by Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson back in 2005, said the funding will go to increase its integration with software such as Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, and grow its marketing, business development, sales, and engineering teams.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Despite the Q1 correction in valuation, and subsequent drop in VC funding, we saw numerous LA companies not only survive, but thrive - despite the macroeconomic trends. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

For today's interview, we spoke with Richard Sussman , who is leading up investments for a new venture capital firm in town, NordicEye (www.nordiceye.com), which just saw a big exit in one of its very first investments, Los Angeles-based Weblife. As a very young VC, we can't do that. Richard Sussman: That's a great question.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2009

United Sample is the latest business effort of goZing.com founders Matthew Dusig and Gregg Lavin; Dusig and Lavin successfully started and sold goZing to Greenfield Online in 2005. Tags: survey sample united online venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2012

Gross said the funding will go towards sales and technology. As part of the funding, John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners has joined the company's board. Gross is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully founded online advertising firm Fastclick, which he took IPO in 2005, and later sold to ValueClick for over $200M.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. source: Capital IQ.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Media Temple hosts websites.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. They all were very different companies. So far so good.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size. We did the planning work up front.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.

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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 money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Executive Summary.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Media Temple hosts websites.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Media Temple hosts websites.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. However, in my dual role as the head of sales and business development, I devised mutually advantageous outcomes with customers and partners which culminated in a collective “Yes” from all the involved parties. 11) Brands Matter.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. VCs were very active in this period. But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. VC Ice Age Part 2 – Why the Market Started Moving Again? VC Ice Age Part 3 – What The Future Holds.

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