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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. We have a property called Stadium Sports, where we are working with several new leagues to launch services. I have a Ph.D.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors.

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. Ilya Pozin: Timing is everything.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time.

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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 guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service. Media Temple hosts websites.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet.

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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. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. We successfully took the firm public in 199, and ended up selling to Anderson Media, to provide Walmart.com's music service.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Welcome to GDPwealth. Big and Small.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. So I've been in this environment either as a manager, service provider, consultant, mentor, and founder. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Welcome to GDPwealth. Big and Small.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. provides online service to compile and compare plans and rates across multiple monthly services.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. Investors get access to deals and loans, and lenders get more access to capital, borrower get better rates, and it benefits everyone.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business. We were at the tail end of it, and not until the 11th hour with one venture capital firm, when Shai just showed up. We've been doing this for a while and capitalize on our head start.

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MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. Given that, the Southern California venture capital ecosystem is definitely going through turmoil. It will be interesting to see what happens with the Los Angeles venture capital market.

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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. How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites).

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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). startup scene so hot. And what happened in L.A.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Laura Brashier – Founder of 2date4love.

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MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Who from Seattle has their ears?

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking? billion).

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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. Why buy me?

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks. Yesterday was a Monday. tl;dr summary.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. I provided a short reading list in the Appendix if you want to read directly about the history of money.

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