socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Both years were well above 2009, which had a low of only $475M in exits. The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp.

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Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Report Riot Games 187

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. in Q2 of 2009. decrease in automotive e-commerce revenues, related to continued weakness in demand from automotive dealerships. According to Internet Brands, it had net income of $4.6M in revenues, up from $2.5M

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Internet Brands .Net Acquisition Web 160

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

The firm recently opened up a new office in Playa Del Rey, looking to tap into the market of Los Angeles area technical talent, and is also hiring in Irvine, on the heels of a venture funding round. Mangers said that it appears that for companies that have survived the storm of 2009 and the economy, things are looking up.

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Southern California Technical Review Playa Del Rey Technology 246

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 399

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. Pay attention to what Los Angeles entrepreneurs are doing, it's going to be an interesting 2011.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Southern California 234

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Need office or Tech Space?

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. on April 24, 2009. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

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JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

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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.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. Brandon Hance: Two in particular do on-demand, Cafepress and Zazzle.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. April 24, 2009. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

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APRIL 5, 2010

January 2009 where he said in a column on Tax Cuts for Teachers : “One of the smartest stimulus moves we could make would be to eliminate federal income taxes on all public schoolteachers so more talented people would choose these careers. He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

It's been awhile since we caught up with the folks at Los Angeles-based Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), which has a very big businesses in the domain name area, so we thought we'd sit down and hear how things are going for the firm. Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Took some time to crunch the numbers and evaluate our findings before re-circling back in 2009 and beginning what started as a blog. We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. We spent the time researching and gathering all the data we could.

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Startup Technical Review Blogging Demand 75

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. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. They are getting more an dmore challenging to reach.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. They asked me why I was interested in a nonprofit?

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

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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. One big challenge is how to grow the company.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

From: Los Angeles, CA. On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. From: Los Angeles, CA. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. Attorney On Demand – Via Video Chat – New App. Kitterly, Inc. AngelList: [link].

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Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

“10 angel investors walk into a bar …” Do you remember AngelGate at Bin38 ? As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller.

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

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JUNE 12, 2010

-Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. My long time friend and co-angel investor Will Herman wrote a post titled Angel Investing that summarized some of his advice.

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Angels in the Infield. Unger, John T. Unger, LLC.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. It turned out that this drove even more demand for StrongMail.

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Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Some thoughts on raising angel money. In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. Investors call Bull Cap.

Startup 354

Startup Pricing Equity Venture Capital 354

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AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The government had a tax incentive for first-time buyers that expired April 30 th , which many people believe “pulled forward” demand rather than improved the market.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298