Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Lake Forest-based Newport Media , which develops semiconductors for the mobile TV market, announced today that it has raised $15M in a Series D funding round. The firm last raised a round of funding in 2006. Tags: newport media semiconductor venture capital mobile chip rfic. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2009

Irvine-based SmartReply , a provider of mobile marketing and SMS messaging services, said today that it has acquired mSnap , a SMS mobile advertising network. mSnap was founded in 2006, and is based in San Francisco. Tags: merger marketing smartreply mobile acquisition msnap.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Berger has been at Sony since 2006, running Sony Pictures Television's mobile games division, and has also served at Time Warner Inc., Berger will be responsible for content development and programming, marketing and distribution for Crackle. Sony purchased Crackle, formerly known as Grouper, in August of 2006.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of IP communications software for the embedded market, said this morning that it has promoted two of its executives and created two new business units.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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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. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. How do you approach this market and get above the noise? William Volk: This is a entirely hypercompetive market, because there are so many apps out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft in a statement said ; “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution”. The PPI screens too have a huge market potential. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Moto-X by Motorola: Motorola has been a mainstay in the mobile device market since the days of early flip phones. Automatic Mix’n Machine by Vitamix : Vitamix’s award-winning Automatic Mix’n Machine represents a giant leap forward in flexibility and automation for the restaurant dessert market.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. We provide everything from your website, to your mobile app, to your kiosk in an in-preson environment.

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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.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2014

Back in 2006, the city set out to build a municipal Wi-Fi network for its citizens. Even San Francisco, the hottest of tech cities, is struggling to make its investment in Wi-Fi along Market Street worthwhile. Most of us carry at least one mobile device at all times. Just ask Riverside, California.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Marketing: SteelHouse. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Is there a market? Sharon Stevenson: That's correct.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

Mobile payments are very cool, but they have lots of requirements. I was there for three years, from 2006 to 2009, in product management and working with retailers launching programs. Matthew Goldman: We've gone and done some market research on people with cards, and people have lots of credit cards. On average, people have 3.5

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2011

In 2006, he sold Pixar to Disney for $7.6B Apple made the first mass-market color digital camera in 1994. Apple is the 2nd largest company in the world, right behind Exxon-Mobil. Jobs purchased animated studio ‘Pixar’ at $5M from Lucasfilms in 1986. and became Disney’s biggest shareholder.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is it most you want to be known for?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market. The company brought on retailers Circuit City, Sears and Kmart in 2006 followed by mega retailer Walmart in 2007. William went on to speak about the 3D television market. In 2003, Vizio launched in Costco and then in Sams Club in 2005.

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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 began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and later cofounded a mobile gaming company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006. A tweet was very similar to text messaging.

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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 think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. Letting our customers and the market know that we were a real organization with real people rather than a pre-packaged, pre-processed marketing machine. Customers, press and the market responded positively. ‘ Here are some steps in the Inside Out organization.

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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 was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. That market has sort of evaporated for the near/mid term, that's not what we're looking for.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Why cater to a market that makes you eat ramen when you can slap on a suit and get budget for sushi? Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a recent interview, Goldenberg stated that the online apparel market was a “bigger than $100 billion” business and that his company and others like it were poised to “take market share from traditional retailers”. Given Goldenberg’s Internet marketing prowess, I’m sure JustFab will continue to shape online retail for years to come.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Recently, I have been looking very closely at the online advertising market. ► March (2) 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout.

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