socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based The Search Agency joins a number of privately held, Southern California firms this week reporting strong growth in 2009. The firm said the growth came as a result of increasing demand for the firm's online marketing services. Tags: searchagency thesearchagency growth marketing online. READ MORE>>.

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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. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2010

San Juan Capistrano-based OptionEase , the stock options tracking and accounting software firm headed by Kimberly Kovacs, reports today that it had what it calls "significant growth" in 2009. According to OptionEase, the growth came because of "strong market demand" for its software for streamlining equity administration and compliance.

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Miramar SaaS Demand Equity 145

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. It is also a result of pent-up demand. When the market run started in March people were relieved that “the world wasn’t ending” so they started spending again. So why the ’09 bounce?

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market. 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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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. An entirely new industry is being formed.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology 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). Advertisers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Scott Morrow: 75 percent of our revenue comes from leads or the performance marketing we pass to brands and retailers who want to sell the products discovered on our site. At the end of the day, what we do is create demand and pass that in the form of a lead to someone. Demand has done a good job of that.

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Content Demand Sites Media 165

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology 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). Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. PowerMark www.thepowermarkgroup.com , Southern California's premier full-service marketing and. customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue. on April 24, 2009.

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

Both Sides of the Table

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. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. So VCs started writing some smaller A-rounds. If you want a great primer on how the VC and startup funding scene changed here’s a great primer. and there''s always a but]. So back to reality.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In order to bring our product to market, rather than to try go into direct selling ourselves, or trying to create a market by advertising--which we didn't have the money to do--we started cold calling Novell resellers. Microsoft didn't have a network OS, until Novell built a market for it, and ate Novell with NT Server.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. PowerMark www.thepowermarkgroup.com , Southern California's premier full-service marketing and. customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue. April 24, 2009.

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. Loves to follow financial market, huge Boston celtics fan. Growing our base of theaters as fast as possible to match our customer demand. 3rd Startup. Worked at Cisco, Microsoft, and Deloitte. Python programmer and iOS developer. Loves movies, snowboarding, and cooking.

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Help Netflix Research Screening 91

Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. If you as a founder don’t think that appealing to women should be a part of your marketing strategy, you are wrong, and will lose. Learn more about purchasing a.CO

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Tips Customer Custom Dollar Shave Club 71

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Ford Blakely, who was previously a business and financial consultant with LECG, founded Zingle in 2009 with a stand-alone device for restaurants, coffee shops, and other service businesses that enabled customers to use mobile text messaging for their take-out orders. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely !

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

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. They're focused on the hobbyist market, and we're very focused on a subset--musicians. They are great companies, but they have a different focus.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

It came about, because we saw a gap in the market around entertainment news written for the 18-34 consumer segment. collapsed and the stock market was crashing, when I chose to leave a steady, paying full time job to go to HitFix. We didn't see anyone else in the market doing what we wanted to do on the entertainment side.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

Not at all, a direct sales force is the most expensive channel to take a product to market. There are more than 600 potential channels in the market – DSPs, ad networks and agency trading desks. If we can solve that, this market will undoubtedly skyrocket quickly. &&&&&& Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

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Advertising Sales Software Platform 59

Both Sides of the Table

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

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. For us, that benefited Telesign as well, because the market was catching up to what we were offering.

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. We're now continuing to broaden the lead we have in our own industry, and we continue to see growth, and we think we'll see consolidation around the market leader. This year we think we'll return to the growth profile we had.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

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. In a down market IP can become a huge differentiator.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Until recently, three legacy providers (Sizmek, PointRoll and Google’s DoubleClick) have dominated the rich media market. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery. Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4

Advertising 40

Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

We really started operations towards the middle of 2009. it's every bit as demanding at DonateGames. It's even bigger than last time, where we created close to a billion dollars in market cap. How long has the organization been around? The first thing we found out, is that we were getting donations from all over the world.

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Pricing Help Startup Sites 183

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Batch 15 is a group of scrappy start-ups that explores unusual markets, including postpartum care (Mahmee), underwater robots, airplane maintenance, and even crocheting. Fun Fact: Beeketing is named from Bi (beloved dog of Alice) and Marketing (our interest). On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. AngelList: [link]. Moveha Inc.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. Can you talk about this, and why the radio market is different? Those expectations were probably too high, in terms of the CPA.

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Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. In short – no.

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Keep up the good work.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! . Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Why cater to a market that makes you eat ramen when you can slap on a suit and get budget for sushi? Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget.

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