socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. 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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

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 primarily use the telephone security method.

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JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2 That as unhealthy.

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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. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We make that easy to do, to handle multiple sites with our solution.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. I've actually gone to four startup, so far, taking them from prototype to production, when they are able to sell the company or have it run on its own.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. . WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Last year, we were passively trying to get users to come to web site, experience things, and buy, this year we're going after them. So how did you end up in Los Angeles, and why did you move down here?

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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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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. But, it was important that was in Southern California.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. There are a couple of names that pop up all over the Southern California entrepreneurship community.

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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). Okay, thats AdSense.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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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. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

You don’t want to make use of unholy crap, so you need to roll your own. Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach. Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

How to do it the right way Here is what a site owner can expect from a Twitter app’s Web robot: A meaningful user agent A Web robot must provide a user agent name that fulfills at least these requirements: A unique string that identifies the bot. XXXL t-shirt that I really like to get a descriptive link from this site.

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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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