socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We hope to be on every single platform, over time. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Organization Services 232

socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. We''re now the longest daily web show, ever. Back in 2005, we even had Sirius Satellite Radio tell us they''d pay us a quarter million to not do online video.

Media 196

Media News Startup Technical Review 196

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. A good example of that is the Apache web server, where no one pays for support--they just download it and use it. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs.

Southern California 242

Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

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). In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

Southern California 100

Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. Value Prop Twitter Style : Central Desktop is: “a cloud-based social collaboration platform for businesses.&#. "Today, web-collaboration means everything from web-meetings, to video conferencing, to Skype, etc.

Newsletter 213

Newsletter Conference Marketing Advertising 213

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. In our years in infrastructure, those computer resources have never been leveraged on the enterprise IT side.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire GRP Partners 359

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

It made me so mad that I would dedicate 2 hours of my Sunday to publicizing it and use this platform to talk about it. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. I hope you’re OK with that. At a minimum maybe it could prompt you to check in on your relatives that might easily fall prey to deceptive practices.

Marketing 263

Marketing Startup Education Class 263

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.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Tips 220

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

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.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. Ilya Pozin: Timing is everything.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

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. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. I think it is essential to give the user a more personalized experience.

Screening 82

Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. First off, tell us about your network of sites? If I'm not mistaken, your firm has actually been around awhile, hasn't it?

Web 140

Web Content Mobile Sites 140

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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. Cloud Data Platform. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Business Logic.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005. What lots of people do instead, is they use the spam button or delete button in their email platform. Fred Wilson has a pretty good track record on investments he's done in the web space.

Newsletter 216

Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

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. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. So it's been a year.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. What do you mean by infrastructure?

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Rustic Canyon Palomar 153

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.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

Patents 179

Patents CarsDirect Sites Ideas 179

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. On your tech platforms. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. tl;dr summary.

Marketing 305

Marketing Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. This is where I see cryptocurrencies today.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

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.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. Are you going to do all of this? You have too much on your plate.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366