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JUNE 18, 2010

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus , Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about?

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MARCH 20, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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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.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

We caught up with founder and CEO Erik Adams to hear more about what is startup is up to, and how it''s trying to use the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo to raise money for its startup. For fifteen years, I owned four dry cleaners in Irvine, and sold those in 2007. What is Deka Sounds? Why raise money on Indiegogo?

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JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. How long has the site been up and running? We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009. What have you learned so far in getting the site up and running? A very small amount of those sites have had funding, but there are certainly websites about lists.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Its works great. It includes traffic!

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

We dive into the very beginnings of IconFinder, where Martin’s personal need led him to start the site, to how he was able to fit working on IconFinder into his school projects and all the way to where the site is now and where they are heading. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements.

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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MARCH 5, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

If you want to download the document I’ve made it available at my favorite document sharing site DocStoc). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. We really started operations towards the middle of 2009. Do you sell those games through your site, or do you sell through partners? You can also use our site to buy downloads, as of March 2nd.

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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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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Then, they use the old fashioned scare tactic that if you don’t become a member, people will not be able to find you on their site and will become concerned about doing business with an unaccredited firm. link] we have been unable to resolve this issue due to technical issues on your site and yet this remains on our profile.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. One way to think about the complexity, is right now, with Google Analytics, the origin of that data are multiple sources going to one web site. How did the company come about?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We had known about the company, going back to when we were all at Pentadyne, and in 2007 we entered into a license from the group of people who had acquired those designs. We completed that agreement in 2009, and were taking the original Urenco design, and began to manufacturer that design.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code. In October of 2007, at some of the first big Facebook events, we saw hundreds of developers working out of their dorm rooms.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code. In October of 2007, at some of the first big Facebook events, we saw hundreds of developers working out of their dorm rooms.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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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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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. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. There are ways to use radio personalities, use their web sites, streaming, custom skins, sponsorships, contest, and all kinds of things which are somewhat labor intensive, but they work. Radio does work.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. We had millions of users visiting our site on a daily basis. Where's Jack Bauer?

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