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Peter Coffee's Annual Technology Forecast

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Peter Coffee's Annual Technology Forecast. Peter Coffee is Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com. He joined the company in January of 2007 after spending 18 years as a technology analyst and columnist at the industry magazines eWEEK and PC Week. Don't miss the pre-meeting roundtable.

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How to Avoid Being Disrupted as a VC

Both Sides of the Table

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. Invest more heavily in platform services. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. And Greg has had the most influence on Upfront Ventures’ strategy since he joined. I tried to be at every event.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Time will tell.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011.

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How RxVantage's IT Software Aims To Automate A $20B Market

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Dan Gilman: We provide a cloud-based platform for medical practices to more efficiently coordinate and communicate with representatives, from pharmaceutical and other medical companies who are calling on their practice. That was back in 2007, when we started. What is RxVantage?

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YouTube Introduces its Own App for iPhone and iPod touch | Google Adds Editing to the iOS Drive App

Tech Zulu Event

This added features might be why Google couldn’t renew their contract with Apple, after five years as Apple used to develop and preload the YouTube App since the debut of the iPhone in 2007 but there could be more. billion, or 90% of consolidated revenues, a 21% increase over second quarter 2011 revenues of $9.03 No Bad Blood.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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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. William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. Talk about your other titles?

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