Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I stayed close.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Bobby’s strong sales acumen, genuine charisma and leadership abilities make him an invaluable asset to the founding team.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Newport Beach-based Conexant Systems , a developer of semiconductors for the video, networking, and other markets, has named two new co-Presidents for the firm today. Scherp has been President of Conexant since April of 2008; Chittipeddi was most recently EVP of Global Operations and Chief Technical Officer.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. Jeremy Gocke: The first incarnation of the idea for Fliptu started to gel between 2008 and 2010. Jeremy Gocke: Fliptu is a separate site and community.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

We had great growth, fueled a little by the downturn in the economy in 2008. We definitely benefited from consumers hungry for a deal and merchants hungry for sales. There has been lots of interest in coupons, deals, sales sites, and such--not to mention lots of new companies. That changed dramatically at the end of 2008.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Westlake Village.

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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. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions. He said, “QuipaLoop offers a defense-grade alternative to securing data-in-transit across public networks that does not involve a third party and is not dependent on the browser type.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. Tech support is sales. they have purchasing intent ).*. But the rates are high for a reason. Yep, that sounds lowly.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

Sales of head-mounted displays began to climb out of their doldrums late last year, and are expected to surpass 1.5 alone in 2017 (not to mention the roughly 32 million consoles sold at the market’s peak in 2008), according data on the Statista website. . million head mounted displays sold in 2018, according to data from Canalys.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. What is Burstly? Our space is pretty young.

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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. We've talked about Indiagames, where we've deployed our smart menu system with their game portal, to increase the sale of games in India.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin. The whole concept behind PromoJam, is that it's a one stop shop to come and build promotions, which you can launch across multiple networks to reach different targets.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

Page Howe: I've been a fan of the domain since 2008 and 2009, having grown up in LA, lived here, and seen the story here through the good and the bad. The biggest sale I think was over $10 million fro a domain, and we have thousands of customers. An example of that is Craig's, which now has Craigs.la. How did you get involved with.LA?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. 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.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin can be less efficient because both networks are validated using “proof of work,” an algorithm that verifies the legitimacy of a transaction by solving energy-intensive math puzzles. Federa added that the entire Solana network is designed to keep fees low in the long term.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Then funds are released to the seller, and Recycled Bride takes a 9% commission on each sale. What is Recycled Bride?

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. We're now doing revenue share on affiliate revenue, doing revenue share on DVD sales, or ads we run against that content. We've averaged 55 percent, quarter over quarter growth sine we launched.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

We sold it in July of 2008, to Expedia. The third, and the most powerful motivator, is the idea of a similarity network. your profile, your interest, your preferences--we're able to create a network of people with similar ideas and thoughts on topics and issues. So what is Lunch.com about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Courting them with ongoing updates and special offers through their social networks is a natural way to keep their loyalty. Proactive customer service.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. When iTunes started selling games in 2008, it coincided with one of the biggest market corrections, one of the biggest global economic corrections in our history and in my lifetime. Can you talk about how you managed that?

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The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Re-Evaluate Your Sales Team Is your VP of Sales up to the task? Too many CEOs delay making a change in the sales role until it is too late. Bring on a Top Notch Independent Board Member This is a great way to expand your network of potential customers and capital providers.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. We have our own ad network, where we work with partners like AOL, and Local.com to augment our traffic, through structured deals with third parties. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. We have our own ad network, where we work with partners like AOL, and Local.com to augment our traffic, through structured deals with third parties. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

Los Angeles 49

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Courting them with ongoing updates and special offers through their social networks is a natural way to keep their loyalty. Proactive customer service.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Siggi is passionate about changing the pipeline for female and minority founders, and co-leads an ever-expanding network of Women in Enterprise. As CRO at iFundWomen, Concetta oversees sales, marketing, analytics, and revenue management. Andrew Hong, Senior Manager at Daimler US’ M&A Technology and Venture Unit.

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The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Riverbed, Aruba Networks, Acme Packet, F5 and Isilon and were all trading at multiples of 5 to 15 times sales. With fears of recession and certain high IT spending verticals, like financial services and retail being hard hit, growth in enterprise IT spending in 2008 is now in doubt. VCs took note.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. ShoeDazzle was already profitable and growing and had already taken capital from Polaris Ventures and Crosscut Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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The Quigley Report

MARCH 4, 2008

Just six months ago, many companies in traditional venture backed industries (enterprise networking, wireless and storage to name a few) were trading at attractive PE and revenue multiples. For instance, in the enterprise networking space, companies like Riverbed, Aruba and Isilon were trading at better than 10 times sales.

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