SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- 2009 Veterans Economic and Business Development Summit. This event is designed to encourage and support Veterans and Service Disable Veteran Owned Small Businesses interested in obtain federal contract, learn more about contracting opportunities, the procurement process and resources available.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two.

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Thursday, March 5, 2009 -- Getting Real About Revenue. Monetization strategies for web companies, from the startups to tycoons, has proven to be hard.really freakin' hard. Let's face it - it's put up or shut up time when it comes to turning eyeballs into dollars. See [link] (more).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. How come nobody ever told me?

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nobody cared about our valuations any more. If they didn’t care about him they certainly didn’t care about me or Jason Lemkin or Jason Calacanis or any of us. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. But this is still all about valuations and none of it is any fun anymore.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. We often knew about the teams before they actually set up the company or left their employer. It’s just math.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- What You Need To Know About Upcoming Legislation. Number of bills introduced.many can negatively impact your business.How current Legislation can impact Tech Companies. As part of our Dinner for Decision Makers Series.join your LA Council and other colleagues in your local AeA community.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 -- People are talking about your products. Do you know what theyre saying? How can sentiment analysis impact the direction of your product development? Innovative companies are using new tools and techniques to capture the voice-of-market to help drive their product roadmaps.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009 -- Exits in 2010: What No one Tells You About Cashing in Your Chips. Building great companies is more than just knowing when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em. The truth is, if you focus on your entrance more than your exit, you won't have to find an "out".it it will find you.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Both Poghosyan and Gudanis have long histories in identity and access management, back in 2009 Poghosyan founded Advancive Technology Solutions, which was acquired by Optiv in 2015 to bulk up its identity access management service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Think about how much more value was created for all these constituencies (and society) by Snap staying independent vs. Instagram selling to Facebook. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? It literally drove FOMO. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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JULY 26, 2022

If I look back to the beginning of the current tech boom which started around 2009, we often wrote a $3–5 million check and this was called an “A round” and 12 years later in an over-capitalized market this became known as a “Seed Round” but in truth what we do hasn’t changed much at all.

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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. But perhaps most audaciously, the CEO launched the Downtown Project in downtown Las Vegas, which has been written about and discussed thousands of times over the years, and in our view, is still an ever unfolding story.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2017

Like many people these days, I spent much of my 20’s and early 30’s thinking about work & fun and not too much about “the future.” I started thinking about “how many Thanksgivings, July 4ths or holidays we really had all together” and when you do the math it is daunting. It’s on you, Carson.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2013

Macadaan shared what he learned from his experience redesigning MySpace in 2009 , and how that's helping to shape what he's doing--along with the rest of the team at LA technology incubator/studio Science Inc.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Well, visitors to Hollywood's Sunset and Vine are about to see just that, with the expansion of The Melt , a Silicon Valley, venture-backed grilled cheese shop founded by Flip video CEO Jonathan Kaplan. How often do you run into a top tier, Silicon Valley-backed grilled cheese sandwich shop in LA? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Marc Andreessen kicked off another great debate on Twitter last night , one that I’ve been talking about incessantly in private circles for the past 2-3 years – what actually IS the definition of a seed vs. A-round. I think it would have been equally annoying if I had chosen to be dogmatic about it. So back to reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Chang Xu for her tireless effort in helping me prepare and analyze the data) If you met with LPs to raise a fund in 2009–2012 the most common refrain was, “We have too many managers and too many dollars in venture. link] So here are some details (please thank & follow! We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2016

billion in Q1 of 2016--the weakest first quarter of the year since 2009. The report noted concerns about a "global economic slowdown, falling oil prices and turbulent equity markets." The report, from Ernst & Young, said that companies are likely exploring other options or waiting for confidence to return for their IPOs.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In October of 2008, I was sitting in front of Quicken about to make my mortgage payment. On Sept 2nd 2009, 11 months later (the day before my birthday), I got a Fedex from BofA (who acquired Countrywide). Home Sweet Home. This never mattered up until then as the house continued to grow in value way ahead of the neg-am.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are many others, like the classic book about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car way back in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. You need a culture where restlessness is tolerated, curiosity is encouraged, passion is inspired, creativity is expected, and people are always talking about what’s next.

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socalTECH

APRIL 9, 2010

RealD is backed by Shamrock Capital, which owns about 14.8 Co-founders Michael Lewis and Joshua Greer also each own about 14.7 on revenues of $95.95M for the nine months ended December 25, 2009. Morgan Securities and Piper Jaffray & Co. percent of the firm. According to the filing, RealD had a net loss of $20.3M READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Dan Rather I sat down to interview Dan Rather at the 2018 Upfront Summit about his outlook for our country one year into the Trump presidency. It’s truly an inspirational listen and there are some insightful lessons about democracy itself. You can watch the interview here or in the embed below. Y ou can order it here.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

I tragically lost my mom to cancer, my girlfriend (who I was living with at the time) and I broke up, and then my team and I were laid-off when the market crashed in 2009. Until I was fortunate enough to secure a job with Ron Burkle at the end of 2009. That's the thing I love about venture. All day, every day.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Talk about the new firm and the new fund? Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. I'm primarily focused on energy, and a little bit on agriculture and a little bit on water, all things I know something about. Talk a bit about your background in this area?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. But don’t believe the myth that incubators are all about ‘cheap rent,’ and avoid business incubators in otherwise vacant buildings.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Many of the articles I’ve read about him over the last several years have a listing of his biggest successes – mostly Uber – and a tinge of cynicism about his close connections with celebrities or self promotion. story about big bets and equally grand huevos. story about big bets and equally grand huevos.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2017

founded in 2009 as a Qualcomm-incubated startup to develop software and computer systems that emulate the human brain, seems to have found a new path forward. Qualcomm Ventures, which previously invested about $11 million in Brain Corp., San Diego’s Brain Corp., was the only other investor in the Series C funding round.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JANUARY 7, 2009

A report just released by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation says that spending $30 billion in taxpayers' money in 2009 on broadband infrastructure, health IT, and electric grid technologies could create or save approximately 949,000 U.S. More than half of those jobs, the report claims, would be in small businesses. (

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. My grandmother was one of the first woman to earn a math degree from Columbia and never gave a damn about what women are “supposed to do.” 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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socalTECH

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. The utility says it hopes to reduce demand on the grid by about 1,000 megawatts through the installation of the meters.

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