socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Swagbucks (www.swagbucks.com), an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency in exchange for searching the Internet, as well as other activities. Scott Dudelson: Swagbucks.com has been around since February of 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Since the recent recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. According to the Kaufman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (KIEA), the entrepreneurial rate in the U.S. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. million loss in 2008.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. Vic Caretti: When I started this in 2008, I didn't even look at the business model. What's your background and how did you get into this? Vic Caretti: It's rather diverse. Where is the site now, in terms of launch?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

And in a market with too much capacity (too many startups) the leverage was completely in the hand of buyers at M&A activity finally picked up. While the number of startups has increased exponentially, the number of active venture capitalists has shrunk by more than 2/3rds in the past decade to less than 750 today and still shrinking.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We felt we'd have more impact over time, if we instead focused on people who are one generation younger, still working, and are active. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). Same with VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. VCs were very active in this period. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. Volume has no doubt picked up at active firms. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.). Because you have multiple forces at work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. 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.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Since 2008, Harrison Metal has invested in over 40 companies, including Aardvark (GOOG), DocVerse (GOOG), Heroku (CRM), Manymoon (CRM), MixerLab (Twitter) and ZipZapPlay (ERTS). Before Harrison Metal, Erik was most recently vice president of product management and strategy at TripAdvisor, the largest travel community site on the Web.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 Do fewer structured activities. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. Get funded now, if you can.&#.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We did a successful trial in 2008. Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. So how does this fit into the mobile world and B2B? Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. First - let me say what I consider to be a good audience - interesting people.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Where I use the Discussion Group: * Ive not been very active in the discussion group on particular topics. There has certainly been a storm of activity over this question. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We closed our fund in August of 2008. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. That said, we're doing our best, and we've done six deals in the last 12 months, arguably one of the more active firms in this market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In 2008, Mitch was named Canada’s Most Influential Male in Social Media, one of the top 100 online marketers in the world, and was awarded the highly prestigious Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. Red Bull gives wings to people who want to be mentally and physically active and have a zest for life. NewTek Inc. The NewTek Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 1, 2008

They are creating a vibrant future for California.” (excerpt from a Teri Takai speech, 2008) California -- if it broke off from the United States and became its own country, would be the "sixth-largest economy" in the world, according to an oft-repeated phrase. While the growth of Web 2.0 While the growth of Web 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In 2008, Mitch was named Canada’s Most Influential Male in Social Media, one of the top 100 online marketers in the world, and was awarded the highly prestigious Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. Red Bull gives wings to people who want to be mentally and physically active and have a zest for life. NewTek Inc. The NewTek Inc.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. You don’t need all the balls and whistles (like stats) overloading most scripts available on the Web.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There must have been some reasons the stations did not embrace the platform, because--from what I gathered--there were not a lot of stations actively participating in the system. Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. Sellers also have to have a win.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

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Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , Los Angeles is a hotbed of creative activity, and not always in the traditional sense. He blogs here and tweets here.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am. Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links » Add New Comment. Make sense? Written by Andrew Chen.

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Startup IP Email Report 29

Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time.

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