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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The announcement is one of the first major product announcements from the firm after years of patent battles; the company had been embroiled in lawsuits and patent licensing battles with such companies as Hewlett Packard, Wayport, iBAHN, Lodgenet, and a slew of other companies since 2009.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2011

According to the company, Jacobs will retire at the firm's 2012 annual stockholder meeting. Jacobs had already stepped away from day to day management of Qualcomm back in 2005, and had stepped down as Chairman in March of 2009. Jacobs will be named Founding Chairman and CEO Emeritus with his retirement. Jacobs, who is Chairman and CEO.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2012

Challenge Gray, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm, said that there were a total of 51,529 job cuts by technology firms in the first half of 2012, a 260 percent increase from 14,308 cuts announced in the same period a year ago. The number of cuts is apparently the largest, midyear total since 2009.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Southwest and Row 44 began testing WiFi on four of its aircraft in 2009, and has now installed the systems on 32 planes. Southwest Airlines is looking to install Wi-Fi in 60 of its aircraft by the end of the year, and says it will have its entire fleet Wi-Fi enabled by the end of 2012. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 12, 2010

The electric utility said that it started installing smart meters starting in September 2009, with a plan to install five million smart meters for both residential and small business customers by the end of 2012.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Under his leadership the company grew into a billion dollar company acquired by Amazon in 2009. 2012: Tony Hsieh interviewed about the Downtown Project. And removing time constraints on customer service team members so they could give customers the time they need, and delight them with special, unexpected offers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The deal is worth $6M in upfront payments, plus payments linked to revenue in 2010/2011, and 2011/2012. MindTree said it expects an increase of approximately $9M in revenues between October 2009 to March 2010 related to the deal. to IT firm MindTree Ltd., MindTree said Tuesday. According to MindTree, Kyocera Wireless (India) Pvt.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. 2012 And Beyond. All the best in 2012 and beyond…. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011. For instance, What Are My Options Worth? Naval Ravikant Interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

And with the crash of Sept 2009 – March 2009 the market cleared out created an open field in which to invest, go slowly, learn and let companies mature before they felt the need to be “hyped.”

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. The idea immediately resonated.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

I took a little bit of time off, then started working on Frequency in the middle of 2009. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. You helped define video on the web with iFilm.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Brendon McQueen: I graduated from Columbia in 2009, and was a first generation college graduate. I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. I came out of school with twelve loans. Plus, I graduated at the height of the recession, when job prospects weren't that great.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

a Qualcomm-backed startup founded in 2009 to develop computer systems and software based on algorithms that emulate the “spiking neuron” processes of the human brain. in 2012, Hylton led a team that developed BrainOS, software technology designed to enable robotic systems to adapt to their environments and learn from humans.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

According to Eichner, Google Mini has been an important part of Google’s Enterprise Search offering since its introduction in 2005 and was helpful however it will be discontinued on July 31, 2012. Some may not remember Google Video, the service stopped taking uploads in May 2009 but still has hosted content and a number of users.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. In 2009, we immediately approached the law firm market because we knew it so well, and because we had lots of relationships from over the years.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. There are 2.9 billion by 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 31, 2012

The team says it has had a great year this 2012. Foursquare has been growing and now has nearly 30,000,000 active users since its launch in 2009. .” A user can now alter his or her ‘full name’ on Foursquare here. Over 15,000,000 New Users. That is not the only good news from them. However, it is not without competition.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— Swift Navigation , founded in 2012 and now based in San Francisco, is using real-time kinematic (RTK) technology to enhance the precision of satellite-based GPS positioning data.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. Most funds get annual extensions.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 29, 2011

My business partner and I launched CitySourced Sept 2009, so we’ve been at it for just over two years now. We’re planning another trip July 2012 for a week this time. 2012 will be more speaking, music, and business exploits. In December we announced we closed $1.33

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

While Journey has launched now in mid-2012, it is the result of technology that we have been building and deploying in production since 2009, when Embark Mobile was founded. Embark Mobile has been building and delivering mobile implementations to businesses since 2009. When was it launched? What inspired you to come up with it?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Fresh off their GDC Online 2012 public unveiling, I had a chance to sit down with Mike and discuss his journey to being a social gaming trendsetter with their new social game Race 4 My Place. So in 2009, he created a skill game similar to the board game “Memory” aimed at helping people sell their homes.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Venture Partners and was recently recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Most Promising Companies and by Billboard as one of the 10 Best Start-ups of 2012. ScoreBig.com , headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., is backed by Bain Capital and U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

Years before Hello Flo’s “The Camp Gyno” video existed, in 2009, Orabrush, a tongue cleaner company, was setting the precedent for what would be how to make a million dollars in ecommerce sales utilizing YouTube marketing. 12,000 people signed up in the first 48 hours after the Dollar Shave Club video went live in 2012.

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Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Kian Saneii: We formally launched in 2009, but I started looking at the market in 2008, to see what applications were out there. Kian Saneii: 2012 is a big year for us. If you're familiar with the design firm Ideo, they actually deferred their costs to help us launch our company. What's the story behind the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. He joined WebVisible, a leading provider of local online marketing software and services, as chief operating officer in 2009 and was elevated to CEO in 2010.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. What are your thoughts on the direction from a design perspective of application development for 2012? He and his company, Rocksauce, make sure to add high quality design back into each of the apps they create.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

From the start he saw the power of technology to augment social interaction and began forming an interactive collective which led to it’s spin off and incorporation as Syyn Labs, LLC in 2009, and gained quick notoriety for their RGM music video collaboration with OK Go. He is featured in this months LA Weekly for the “Best of LA People 2012?

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Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Idea Mensch.

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