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. READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We make that easy to do, to handle multiple sites with our solution.

Startup 100

Startup Customer Custom Mobile 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Iraq a hard place to work, is not SoCal. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

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). Okay, thats AdSense.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Designating antisocial geeks.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41