socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The firm has been squarely aimed at the content and blog world, with recent hires of editors from AOL's PopEater, and TMZ.com, to help build out its sites. It also powers the celebrity sites of such folks as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and Nicole Richie. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. ContentNext.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. MetaMarkets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

By 2008, the first construction began on integrated experiments to make a plasma core and infuse it with some energetic particles. The demonstration facility “Copernicus” which will be built using some of the new capital the company has announced raising, will start off on the D-T fuel cycle and eventually make the switch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee. Time will tell. Go Boulder!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. million loss in 2008. I think you’ll enjoy watching.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to founding MuckerLab, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital where he helped lead one of the most successful seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. 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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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. We started getting approached by venture capital and private equity, and we have eight figures in revenue. We also just launched a site for Lululemon which makes athletic apparel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it. We made a decision not to go for venture capital early. What does Anti-AgingGames do?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

We''ll do things like retouch photos for sites like HauteLook, which is now owned by Nordstrom, and Gilt Groupe. We''ll also fill in product descriptions, filling in the copy you see associated with products on those sites. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

” Harvard Law professor Rebecca Tushnet — who is a member of the legal team at the Organization for Transformative Works, which runs major fan fiction site Archive of Our Own — said that these questions would depend on what the actual contract is between Realms of Ruin and the writers. “If

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade.

Venture Capital 241

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I still get a lot of pushback from VCs (but) I think by now people understand that we don''t change or alter or in any way, um, vary content on the site. in 2008 and 2009, we had at that point righted many of the wrongs in the venture capital industry, but that didn''t mean that entrepreneurship was all of a sudden healthy.

Entrepreneur 232

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. If someone has a contest form in PDF on a web site, we can fill that out and track that submission.

Writing 209

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Sellers list their items on the site, using a simple 60-second listing process. Buyers can then contact the seller through Recycled Bride’s internal messaging system if they have questions, and they can purchase the item directly on-site. Tracy was married in 2008, and found the wedding planning process frustrating and expensive.

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Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. We closed our fund in August of 2008. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. We think of it as a Match.com for sports, and helping athletes to get out there and find the right school.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2015

After 2008, with the economic downturn, we also were able to recruited people from people like Sotheby''s and Christie''s, because they had let go of a lot of their expert staff. It was great timing for us to move into the market, to capitalize on the expertise here, in terms of development, online marketing, Google, etc. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We did a successful trial in 2008. Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Software 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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Networking CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. Frankly, most people don't have the capital and management depth to be able to scale up and take advantage of the economy of size. You were seeing great growth in last few years, how has economy affected you?

Oversee.net 207

Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? TechCrunch article.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

MyShape 150

MyShape CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

Southern California 150

Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

this is not the case, you wont be able to do anything mentioned here without bringing your site down. You need to be able to check your sites raw web logs. The "User Agent string" is just the name thatthe program accessing your site goes by. Go to the top web directory ofyour site, where your home page is located.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2010

I can’t really even say they were ventures, as I did not put in the financial capital needed, nor the effort to see any of them through to success. I hit rock bottom when I used my piggy bank to pay my electric bill in July, 2008. Brad: Probably my first 100 ideas were not successful. Because I did not do what it took to succeed.

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Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Sales 95

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo.

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