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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. Here’s an example of a recent Snapstorm on negotiations: https://medium.com/media/ecca992139dedfef9ac6dc1a6afe432e/href So for the people who still don’t get why I’d use Snapchat — in no particular order let me say: I enjoy doing it.

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JULY 27, 2015

Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. I think it's a shining example of Silicon Beach's technology helping out Hollywod. Matt Cooper: What is really unique about Hollywood-style banner ads, is they've been video-based since 2007.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

The slowdown in online spending in is huge contrast the the year-to-year changes being seen in 2007, when comScore was reporting back-to-back, double digit growth in ecommerce sales. For example, last year, comScore reported a 28% year-to-year increase in sales in August, 19% increases in September and a 19% increase in October.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Some practical examples. When I joined GRP Partners in 2007 I was offered a role as a General Partner. It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Example here: [link]. For example you say: Vince: Ignited Managers thrive because of their unique ability to connect and leverage their informal networks for the good of the company. The client has to win.I have to be excited.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The way our business model works, is, for example, if you're a. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. For example, we have a. For example, we give them a. print, in about a month metal prints, and greeting cards. profiles.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. An example was that while we were in the seed round at Ring and followed in the A, B, C and D … we were also able to lean into the E round when Jamie really wanted to scale up his funding and the final check was still > 420% IRR! Why does that matter?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

People couldn’t help but expect a roll-out like that of smartphones, where the launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to adoption by every tech-savvy person by 2010, and the vast majority of the developed world by 2013. We’re mostly talking about software, after all. OK, and LIDAR, and cameras, but the software is the key.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Examples of that are if you're looking for a credit card, looking for antivirus software, or summer camp for the kids, or colleges. For example, when you go to make a decision on what ski resort to visit, you've got to determine what are the most important factors.

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SoCal CTO

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. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

For example, at an event, say at the Staples Center, of the 20,000 seats they might have four or five price groups. For example, at a concert, they sell the front row -- which is clearly worth more -- the same as the cost of the 50th row. That's not an efficient way to sell tickets. It ends up, our margins went way up.

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socalTECH

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. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service? Rob Reed: Starbucks seems to be a good example, though they are not a client. How did the company come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. What is total assets under management? -

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

As I reflect upon the journey’s I’ve taken as a VC since 2007 I realize that the ones I was best at – and that I enjoyed the most – are ones that began by falling in love. Whenever somebody has a car startup I send it straight his way. I haven’t met any VC better connected and more thoughtful in this space.

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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). For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Erick Laubach: Originally, I started a travel startup in 2007 called Driftr. So, we're buildling lists of things to help you find what you're looking for--examples might be the Los Angeles Death Tour, or Street Art in LA, or LA's Ten Hidden Waterfalls. How did the company start?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. A good example is the shoemaker Puma. I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

On Island Paradise, for example, you get a plot of land, you can raise animals and farm crops on them, grow trees, etcetera. Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. They launched this business in 2007, with the concept of building another virtual world and large scale game.

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MARCH 6, 2015

By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. Never was that more clear than in this short, but tear-inducing post from 2007 by Aaron Swartz , who you probably know took his life last week at the full-life-in-front-of-him-but-didn’t-feel-that-way age of 26. “I’ve wanted to write a year end post for days.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. A little background: 409A valuations are named for the section of Internal Revenue Code Section that created them in 2007. Comparables based on recent financings/exits.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Inogen – Real World Example. An example of a compelling adVenture opportunity is Inogen. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Nearly twenty years later, the industry has grown to nearly $20 billion in total capitalization value and has advanced the quality of surgical care globally. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). Another example. I’m not sure why you’d do that unless you had to.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based ManiaTV (www.maniatv.com) is one of the companies, having moved here in 2007 from Denver to take advantage of the local talent. Peter Hoskins: In 2007, we took a fantastic soundstage at Pico and Fairfax. We sell advertising and have been very fortunate to have the best brands advertise on our network.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

A few examples of reverse mergers over the past few years include Tobira Therapeutics (NASDAQ: TBRA ) ( recently acquired by Allergan ), Pulmatrix (NASDAQ: PULM ), Retrophin (NASDAQ: RTRX ), and Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ). Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later.

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JUNE 5, 2011

For example: If you were to invest $41 million into a company (and one could assume that you owned between 33-50%) then the company is worth $82-123 million at funding. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I raised my A round at a $31.5

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

An example of that is Craig's, which now has Craigs.la. We bought and sold domains, and it's now been over two million since 2007. It's a shorter domain, with an LA look, style, and feel. About 95 percent of the names in the dot com world now, you can get in dot LA, which lets you get a one word restaurant domain.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

For example, only qualified institutional or accredited, sophisticated buyers are allowed on the bulletin boards. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

So I went online and saw that the forums were outdated--for example, you'd see the last post was in 2001, who would be coming back to that? For example, Desperate Housewives, Gray's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Pushing Daisies--we do a lot of films. I thought, "this is where I need to be." I'd just come from Hell, and this was great.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Although Mr. Jackson and Mr. Ripkin represent extreme examples of high and low maintenance sports superstars, the analogy is valid in the business world. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Numerous executives have the ability to deliver value to your adVenture. Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —. Meredith Publishing.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. The only way to compete is by being innovative, and that private key encryption is one example of being innovative in this space. As far as we know, we''re the largest cloud storage provider which is based here in Southern California.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. -Also offers premium ad campaigns to publishers by tracking reader intent, behavior, and demographics. Has 12,000 publishers, 700mm monthly page views and 53mm daily unique visitors. Competitors: Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. In late 2007, Chi.mp FriendFeed is a great example of a successful aggregator. For example, if you go to farrow.mp , you can find me on LinkedIn, Twitter, Dopplr, Yelp, and Flickr. Why did you start Chi.mp, and what does it provide?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. The example is Twitter--Twitter is nothing without the link.

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