socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We had a soft launch to test our new identity protection & identity management features to complement our core people search service in 2020. Furthermore, I believe that the digital identity landscape will change from todays duopoly of Google and Facebook to a more decentralized and self-sovereign future.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

There is an all out ground war right now between Amazon and Google for control of voice in the home. AI, VR, AR, all exciting sectors in their infancy still IMHO however the smart speaker has already arrived and most companies and consumers don't yet fully grasp the significance this will play over the next few years. On Demand).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I've been telling people to buy bitcoin when it was $200, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 (and continuing to take it for our services) and it's kept growing in value. Just as email kicked off the reasons to online, followed by websites and instant messenger, adoption went global with Google, Amazon and Facebook. Aside from $50,000 bitcoin?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. Not Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s basically Google for icons. I made a simple web interface and at the end of 2006 I found it really useful so I decided to buy IconFinder.com for a public site. I felt I had created a useful service, but needed a guy like Steffen to turn it into a real business. Can you briefly describe IconFinder.com?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

LED Flashlights by Maglite : In 2006, Maglite introduced LED illumination into the company’s product portfolio. A finalist in the 2013 Golden Bridge Awards’ “Made In America” category, the Spartan Series provides cutting-edge encryption communication services capable of powering government and military applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 But Google is still showing great financial performance. The contextual ad market was attractive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Mobile gifting service. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. Computing is going the way of the electric grid. To a large degree we rode Amazon’s coattails.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. In 2006, the whole concept was new and novel, and I converted by engineering site to an art site. I figured there.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

They use our card whenever they shop offline, and they don't have to have the right phone with the right carrier, or the right bank with something like Google Wallet. I was there for three years, from 2006 to 2009, in product management and working with retailers launching programs. Finally, who's the ideal user for the service?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. Think Sergey Brin, the Russian-born co-founder of Google, or Vinod Khosla, the India-born co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Design a product or service that you can sell. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is about $126 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome. Foursquare. -A

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

We spoke with Vince Bianco , the firm's CEO, about the company and its services. Vince Bianco: The company has been around since 2006, and we started by launching an SEO tool for press releases for professionals. Why do news sites agree to use your service--doesn't this degrade their value to readers, which is their editorial?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv . – Get current & multitask - in the car, gym, home - anytime, anywhere. Its like a match made in heaven.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. It's just a matter of time--when someone goes to Google and searches for a ball bearing, that search will be dominated by our content. Why hasn't a service like this been available until now? With consumers, they shop for things.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP? They get paid to say, “Company X is the new FriendFeed&# just 2 days after Google acquires FriendFeed. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. We had 6 term sheets in no time. We closed a $16.5

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv You are paying too much, for too little.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. She is particularly interested in applications that leverage AI to automate existing workflows or create new services.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv You are paying too much, for too little.

Stickam 40

Stickam Technical Review Draper Venture Capital 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. It’s hosted by Rackspace, which is a hosting service that obviously doesn’t care much about its reputation.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Share on Google+. magazine and the LA Business Journal. Howard Marks.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy. . Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. user interface was very similar to Google’s user interface in the sense that it was a very simple, plain web page that had one search box and a button to search. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

How much do we cut back public services to shrink our national debts? Google was n-o-t-h-i-n-g! Yes, even Google has to make these tough decisions about where to allocate staff and money. They fudge on org charts to appease people. Clarity of purpose in leadership matters. Think of the decisions we face as countries globally.

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Entrepreneur Yahoo Startup Technical Review 330