From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Prior to joining DWA Chris worked at Activision Blizzard for 13 years, during which time he held a number of role including Executive Producer and Lead Game Designer. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Chris currently serves as Head of Global Interactive for DreamWorks Animation.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend.

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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. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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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. Utilizing this same core technology, TVSync has developed automatic content recognition (ACR) software that can be accessed in seconds by video and/or audio using the camera and/or mic from a mobile device.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

We spoke with CEO Steve Schell on how Idealab believes its past experience with starting up a 3D printing company--and some new ideas on how to create a marketplace of 3D designs--are the key to making the leap from hobbyist to the mass market. Without customers, no designer wants to participate.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. magazine and the LA Business Journal. Since 1996, Gross has been running Idealab.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games. It turns out that HTML5 was designed for the web, and there are plenty of tools designed around it which are really fancy.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Component design – computers need computer chips in order to compute, and computer chips have to be designed by someone. Device design – all of the major computing components – CPU, RAM, connectivity, display, battery, etc. – need to be enclosed into a coherently designed device. Value Chain.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry. Army, for example.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments. Designed by.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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