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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a firm which provides e-commerce services and payment processing for online software sellers, claims that the firm had 500% growth in its revenues in 2009. Engel did not disclose actual financials related to the firm. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2012

is far and above the top applicant for those new, generic TLDs -- with 307 applications for TLDs, dwarfing even Google, which had a mere 101 applications. The company is headed by former Demand Media President and Chief Strategy Officer Paul Stahura, who headed up Demand Media's domain registration business, eNom, until 2009.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Friday, November 20, 2009 -- PPC 2.0  How the latest unique-to-Google tools will turbo charge your paid search results. Whats new in Google PPC can save you time and money  and boost your paid search results. Google has recently added many new tools and functionality not available in other PPC search engines.

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MARCH 2, 2011

The news comes on the same day it was reported that Mahalo made a 10 percent cut to its staff, due to Google's recent search ranking changes. Photo: Calacanis and Arrington in happier times, courtesy Techcrunch50-2009 ). READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. De Beers produced industrial diamonds, but found a market as well in engagement rings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). 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. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Although dollars were up, the number of deals (736 nationally in Q1 vs. 827 deals last year) was the lowest in a single quarter since Q3 of 2009. Nationally, venture capital investment up slightly, at $5.9 billion in 736 deals in the first quarter vs. $5.6 billion a year ago. in San Diego.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s basically Google for icons. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. In 2009 I launched version 2 and asked the talented designers at TurboMilk to do a logo. Can you briefly describe IconFinder.com? What were you doing before IconFinder? So it really got a good start.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Carlsbad-based Aptera, the electric car startup backed by Google and Idealab, is delaying delivery of the firm's vehicles to customers, according to a letter to customers. According to Aptera, it missed its goal to deliver its first production 2e vehicles by the end of 2008, and is moving its volume production launch to October 1 of 2009.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 -- Paid Search Engine Marketing Now. Year 2010 Tips of the Trade for Buying and Converting your traffic on Google, Yahoo and Bing. TechBiz Connection. Whether you are a small business owner or a marketing manager for a large multinational corporation, taking advantage of paid search advertising is a must.

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Aptera recently raised $24M from Idealab, Google, and a number of other backers for its composite, lightweight hybrid electric vehicles; Kinetix Motors is currently raising financing, according to its web site. The X PRIZE competition will begin in 2009, with winners awarded in 2010.

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JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media (..)

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

No parameters behind the competition have yet been announced; the foundation said it expects rules and guidelines to be finalized in early 2009. READ MORE>>

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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. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms. Almost any name of a product or service, and many generic domain names are available in.LA.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year. 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.

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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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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange. There are none of those resellers for Amazon Web Services or Google. We believe that the operating system of business is going to be Google or Microsoft, so we're working with them both. Explain that?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

They are Starbucks, Dell, eBay, Google and Microsoft. Each of the top 25 newspapers in the United States declined in circulation in the first quarter of 2009, except for The Wall Street Journal, which had a gain of.06 Brands lagging in new media shrank by 6 percent. The change is wrenching and exhilarating. 06 percent.

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Social Media Media Newsletter Press 133

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MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

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JUNE 1, 2011

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea.

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Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

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MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. You don’t. Get over it.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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JUNE 28, 2011

It sure would put pressure on Google if they had Facebook competing on one side of them for share of users’ time and Amazon flanking them on the other side by providing search to every website out there that might threaten AdSense and even Google’s core search business. Not Google. Amazon changed our industry.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Easily share it all with the people that matter most so everyone is in the loop! . It's the hot item on the Internet for that moment in time.

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

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APRIL 5, 2012

The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. Then, Guy O'Seary, Madonna's manager, and Ashton Kutcher invested in late 2009, which added Madonna and Ashton's connections, getting us into the right circles in the celebrity arena to get on their radar.

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

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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. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it.

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Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I know that some of the best businesses have seen this rapid acceleration quickly: Google, Facebook, Instagram, AirBnB and the like. It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. Not Google. Reach it quickly or investors will look elsewhere.

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Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review 390

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results. (I went to bed at 2am at the hotel and several people were texted me to try and summon me back to the bar).

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture. That’s normal.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011. 2011 Rank.

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Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

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MARCH 20, 2009

on April 24, 2009. startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Vmware and more. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. Do you have what it takes? Apply to be one of 32 cloud computing.

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100