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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about? He graduated from U.C.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

We dive into the very beginnings of IconFinder, where Martin’s personal need led him to start the site, to how he was able to fit working on IconFinder into his school projects and all the way to where the site is now and where they are heading. TechZulu caught up with Martin LeBlanc Eigtved Founder and CEO of IconFinder.

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MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Social networking sites, and even the general enterprise has need for this.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. The target market was initially all of the sound work done in the media space. What is Aggregage? Elearning is an example.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. He was raised and educated in London.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. The client then presents the consumer with the opportunity to have a dashboard view of social networking sites. Derrick Oien: The primary market is the operator.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. Gregg Spiridellis: We've got four products in the market right now. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 For example, I was looking for web hosting, and kept on running into affiliate shills--which is a disease on the internet--where there are people who purport to talk about the best products, but are really pushing whoever is paying them the most money.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. If you can just be friendly enough and get your users to party with you, the rest is really easy. Enjoyed this post? The Application.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor. After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We are not trying to reinvent the fan, and are not trying to be a betting site. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

To try to change that, two entrepreneurs, Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, are launching a new effort called Upstart LA (www.upstart.la), which aims to bring that venture accelerator model into this market. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. Gregg Spiradellis: We've got four products in the market right now. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs.

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Content Startup Screening Education 138

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.” Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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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. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach. By integrating a URI shortener into your site architecture you gain the abilitiy to perform way more than URI shortening. You need to take care of errors yourself.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.” Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. I met him a year ago, and we got chatting about the market, what's going on, and his own interest in getting back involved in investing. I don't think that is going to go away just because the market is down.

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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). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Page 1: Market Size. $3 Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. And covered we did. It got worse.

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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. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Online text book rental service.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. We raised $16.5

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