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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. We take that number, and send them a one-time PIN code.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Steve was was walking through (live) the process of creating a Facebook ad. MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi!

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

Both Sides of the Table

So Skype was ubiquitous. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 So at least they preserved some value and they didn’t “ pull an AOL “ But it wasn’t exactly the boon that they had expected.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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We have a great screening process. There was a meme that started going around LPs around 2005 that “I’m not sure LA is really its own venture market” and some LPs actually believed that. VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. We are hands on. We have strong theses in key technology areas.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But, it was important that was in Southern California.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. It’s your job to find a continued way to stay on the radar screen of the VC. We’re the largest fund in Southern California. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. You had your great meeting.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Traveling from city to city the Detox Market introduces carefully screened green brands in beauty, fashion and food to the consumer who wants to detoxify their body and living environment.