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SoCal Venture Totals Slip, But IT Shines

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However, Southern California's IT industry actually saw an increase in investments, bucking a national downturn in IT industry investments. According to the report, investments in Southern California total $421.80M across 51 deals, down from $902.16M and 58 deals in Q3. billion was invested in the U.S. billion in deals.

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Vizio and the Story of the Sleeping Giant

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I am currently at the annual VC in the OC program held in Irvine CA by OCTANe , an organization that connects people and ideas to resources and capital in Orange County. Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market. In 2003, Vizio launched in Costco and then in Sams Club in 2005.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. It's not used for authentication.