socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

These are what you might consider traditional, Facebook casual social games. On Island Paradise, for example, you get a plot of land, you can raise animals and farm crops on them, grow trees, etcetera. They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. How did the firm start?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005.

Guide 42

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. To give you an idea, we're indexing over half a billion social posts every day, and over 5 million new videos every single day. What is Frequency?

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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. There's been a dramatic shift in recent years from the traditional videogame model, to social, mobile, and casual games. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

The military-industrial complex of which I am a part is a great example of this. One example I found was H.R. Army, for example. social software tools involves the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander – which is Twittering live from Mars, so to speak. There are numerous other examples.) You can affect this process.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. Do your homework. I do the same.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

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.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210