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.
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 was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data.
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socalTECH
JULY 20, 2010
One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Because of the higher demand there, and because there were not a whole lot of providers, plus our good connections in Japan, we started there. There's really big demand.
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). In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. There's lot of great stuff happening here.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.
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. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.
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