TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The firm’s portfolio includes Detroit’s direct-to-consumer plant startup Bloomscape , Chicago-based Paro , which provides a network of on-demand finance professionals, DC’s custom framing business Framebridge , Milwaukee-based monthly wine club Bright Cellars and New York insurtech company Policygenius.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2016

I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. John Greathouse: I am a Luddite when it comes to consumer gadgets! What is the biggest lesson you learned this year? What is your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year?

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Santa Barbara Cloud Computing San Diego Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. With a benefit to both consumers and merchants. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

The firm said the new site is aimed at helping consumers find additional ways to save money, particularly in a challenging economic climate. Experian bought PriceGrabber.com in 2005. According to PriceGrabbber, the new site allows shoppers to evaluate free shipping offers from more than 1,000 retailers. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

We wanted to come to California, and Los Angeles in particular, where the consumer is around, and we''re close to the end users that we''re interested in, and also where there is an exciting, emerging, and under-served tech community. Arjan Schutte: The consumer segment we care about is the underbanked, nontraditional customers.

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Capital Startup Los Angeles Invest 183

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

According to court filings, ISWest had filed a trademark infringement claim against Milon-Digiorgio Enterprises in 2005, alleging that the firm's use of the name ISPWest was confusing to consumers. District Court in Pasadena. ISWest won that suit, gaining an injunction on Milon-Digiorgio's use of the ISPWest mark, but no damages.

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Agoura Hills Agoura Pasadena Services 100

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

Stamps.com's PhotoStamps service allows consumers to upload any photo for inclusion on legal U.S. The firm said it shipped more than 70 million PhotoStamps to customers since 2005. The firm had been operating in an extension of a USPS market test since May of last year, which expired over the weekend, on May 16th. READ MORE>>.

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Marketing Screening Los Angeles Services 100

InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives. Cool stuff for circa 2005, unless you were an idiot working for a cellular carrier. The recent purchase of Skype by Microsoft for $8.5 Their utter stupidity is a bit disheartening, but highly instructional.

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Company Companies Course IP 193

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

Pasadena-based New Matter (www.newmatter.com) is developing a 3D printer, the MOD-t, which it says will help bridge the world of 3D printing experimentation with the consumer. We''re doing that through really a low cost, affordable, elegant looking, and easy to use 3D printer designed for consumers, not just professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Given the concentration of SoCal companies in entertainment and consumer-focused tech, where revenue often comes early in a company's life, entrepreneurs should expect investors to scrutinize initial revenue traction. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 111

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. When consumers expressed interest in a product, companies would buy their contact information to make outbound phone calls. more) READ MORE>>.

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Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

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. That's when I had the idea spark, looking at how consumers watch regular TV and cable, which they can watch for hours.

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Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. In fact, our mantra right now, is to look at the cloud as just another data center.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

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. There are 20x more consumers online. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

It seems this is already widely known as reported in this Wikipedia article about the Affinion / Treligient Group, “According to the Better Business Bureau , thousands of issues have been reported by consumers for deceptive selling practices, unauthorized charges to consumers’ credit cards, and failure to respond or resolve issues.

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Marketing Startup Education Class 263

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). For example, one product alone — Tasty — is consumed by 500 million people per month. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. Think about it. Business Logic.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to TripAdvisor, Erik spent over four years at eBay, where he held a variety of positions, including leadership of eBay’s premium features business, which grew during his tenure from $124 million in revenue in 2002 to $410 million in 2005, significantly outpacing overall eBay revenue and listings growth. TX received a M.B.A.

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 118

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. A lot of it was around stability.

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. We hired around 500 for various tasks around the business, and found the process was time consuming, fragmented, and not necessarily reliable. We also rank and rate students after they've completed a mission, which helps them build a reputation, as well.

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Startup Design Demand USC 219

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Focus On The Consumer. Any discussion of the 2015 e-commerce holiday season has to focus first on consumers; they’re always the most important factor in the equation. Unfortunately, consumer attitudes about their current conditions and future prospects have wavered a bit recently: The September Consumer Confidence Index rose to 102.6,

Commerce 40

Commerce Sales Pricing Study 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. That’s what he knows best. And he argues that you need to have some “comparative advantage&# as an investor.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

Yahoo 59

Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 59

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 What time frame are we going to see for this to impact our consumer lives? RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting. And that is how he ended up in L.A.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

All we have to do is look at the data, though: Since its launch in 2005, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has sold 66 million copies worldwide. For that, the Guinness World Book of Records recognized it as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device (higher than the iPhone or iPad). That makes it the first in console sales. 5. Giving back.

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Writing Training Email .Net 88

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. Can you tell our readers the story behind how you found the company?

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Consumer spending 70% of the economy and vulnerable (wealth effect, build up debts). Consumers hurting in Detroit or Biloxi will not continue to spend money they don’t have and income they’re not earning. These consumers buy iPads, iPhones, Androids.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Black Friday is an important holiday for retailers who see huge numbers of consumers shopping for the holiday season. 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.

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Sales Startup Mobile Report 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005. It's tough to get consumers to pay for things, and we're not sure that getting a consumer to pay for a product is a long term way to make money. The reality of the thing, is that there is no one to follow here.

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Entrepreneur Yahoo IBM IBM 105

Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, US Government agencies suffered 1108 data breaches between 2005 and 2018 1. Unlike the shared Internet connections commonly used by consumers and many small businesses, dedicated Internet access (DIA) provides you with a network circuit which can only be used by your agency.

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Southern California Networking Customer Custom 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76