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. In practice, however, he understated, it seems likely that America, or at least American media, will not rejoice.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

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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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. A hint on the rendering engine used, for example “Mozilla/5.0

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. Our media clients were telling us that they were losing revenues to Groupon. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. The two we're disclosing right now are Jerry Neumann, who ran mergers and acquisition for Omnicom, and Josh Styleman, CEO of Reprise Media, which was sold to IPG and became their search product.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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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 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: Mania TV sells, produces, packages, and distributes original programming on the Internet and other new media platforms. It's primarily Internet and mobile devices.

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JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Clients include Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile, Fox Internactive Media. TechCrunch.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Founded in 2007.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I have a good friend who spent years building relationships with senior executives at media companies. 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).

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Rather than bounce from team-to-team, as is common in major league sports, Cal repeatedly turned down more money and greater media exposure to play his entire 21-year career with the same team, the Baltimore Orioles. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Numerous executives have the ability to deliver value to your adVenture. Meredith Publishing.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. We've embraced that complexity, and I think we've benefited from that.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. Where are things in terms of social media and advertisers?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. Where are things in terms of social media and advertisers?

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

The share feature is the real differentiator because, again, what it allows me to do, for example, Sarah Savage, our marketing manager, wants to be able to understand what the questions were for my interview this morning, and she'll be interested not only in what questions you asked, but what my answers were. That company was sold in 2007.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

A prime example is rookie cards, which were priced like Initial Public Offering shares of stock. However, as the Internet advertising industry matured, it became populated with traditional media veterans who infused old-world jargon (e.g., Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Eventually, card buying speculation drove prices ever higher.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Take for example Accel. I use social media. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 The problem is the illiquidity because investors are often locked in for 7-10 years. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. But picking today’s top 10 does not pick the next year’s 10.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

The military-industrial complex of which I am a part is a great example of this. Second, Congress has passed the related America COMPETES Act of 2007, where COMPETES is (believe it or not) an acronym for Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science. One example I found was H.R.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: user_id, event_name, value, datetime. For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. My professional background is in online ads, social media, and venture capital. December 2007 (7).

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Likely if you look at places like New York one would also be able to find examples of starts ups also doing well. www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now. Recent Comments | 3 Total February 26, 2010 at 6:37pm by bill right L.A. has an excellent talent pool and it costs less to live in L.A. Register Now!

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

Examples: B2C Example (for an eBay user): 1. B2B Example (for a StrongMail user): 1. For me, this test also serves as a strategic guideline for almost everything I do: - business plans - investor pitches - sales pitches - marketing messaging - product management - press/media calls - etc. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible. We saw a continuation of 2006 and 2007, where there were too many "me-too" players.

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MARCH 1, 2011

For example, one time Mike went to David Liu, CEO of The Knot, and said ‘I know your wedding pages are very valuable. Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ). They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. We can do better. How is that unique?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced.

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