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MAY 10, 2012

EMI sued MP3tunes in 2007, accusing the firm of violating its copyright. Despite that, MP3tunes did pave the way for similar online music locker services like Amazon.com and Google's own. According to Robertson, in an interview with CNET, the bankruptcy filing came due to overwhelming legal costs to fight a battle with EMI.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. But here’s the big “aha.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. De Beers produced industrial diamonds, but found a market as well in engagement rings.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s basically Google for icons. The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. Can you briefly describe IconFinder.com? What were you doing before IconFinder?

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2009

Business.com claims that the metrics in the tool are unavailable through other web analytics programs, and specifically addresses limitations in such products like Google's Urchin analytics tools. Donnelley back in 2007. Business.com is now owned by R.H. Donnelley; the firm was purchased by R.H. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2009

Calacanis said that Mahalo has a "rigorous" hiring process, but that the firm failed to do a "simple Google search" which would have revealed the fact that Schiefer had been convicted of hacking. Calacanis said that the firm hope to "offer him a job" when Schiefer finishes his sentence.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. It''s cheaper than both Dropbox and Google Drive.

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JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. Any big surprise that Chris is a very early investor in Twitter founded by Evan Williams who worked at Google after selling them Blogger.com? The Details: I recently finished reading “ The Big Short ” by Michael Lewis.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007. In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. - It''s all about staying on top of things, such as mobile trends, changes to Google algorithms, that''s something we do on a day-to-day basis. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. The Past (1985-2002).

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SoCal CTO

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 ).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. 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. Their only option is an IPO. There are just not buyers out there.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

We bought and sold domains, and it's now been over two million since 2007. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms. If you had a good keyword, that might give you a better place in Google's search engine, and that became the dominant reason for a domain. That's our bread and butter.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Competitors: Google. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). -Also offers premium ad campaigns to publishers by tracking reader intent, behavior, and demographics. Total raised: $18.3mm. Read more: TechCrunch.

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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. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. I've Googled, gone through my network, posted to Craigslist, and approached universities, and much like your friend I am having a heck of a time finding developers in LA. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? It makes you want to move north!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. But when Michael Arrington announces that he’s giving up his iPhone because he’s pissed off with the network and with your blocking Google Voice then you sure better know.

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SoCal CTO

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. Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups.

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SoCal CTO

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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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. What are your thoughts on that? Now, it's long, and complex.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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JULY 10, 2010

Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Acquired by Google for $700mm in cash. Google wants to use the data to create new flight search tools. -Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is ITA Software.

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SoCal CTO

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.

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SoCal CTO

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. This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky.

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SoCal CTO

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. Im sure that many of you have read Guys article Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 Ergo I suck.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds.

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SoCal CTO

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? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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MAY 19, 2010

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. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). 2007 was the watershed year. Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). We’re all socially connected (so great businesses spread faster). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition).

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. 5) Google does a great job with indexed search. Google can definitely work complimentary to what we are doing. Clark Benson is the Founder and CEO of Ranker.com. We get referring site traffic.

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SoCal CTO

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.

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