Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk. Oh, and the cocktail party afterward also rocked! (I

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In a way it seems the model has been bring in professional management to help a company through a growth spurt while technical founders focus on becoming an industry leader in terms of innovation and then when the less experienced technical founder is ready they step back in the role. But we have to acknowledge that the industry has changed.

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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. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009 -- New Manufacturing Technology for Clean Energy. Over 40 years of thin film process innovations have helped enable the IC industry today to produce well over 1018 transistors per year at costs of nanodollars per transistor thereby empowering the information age. See [link] (more).

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Our dream went beyond monthly cocktail events, and together we created a new vision for how we could help innovators everywhere. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We hope to be on every single platform, over time. 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.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In a statement last week, Tealium said it created the briefing center to help its customers understand how its services can be combined to deliver compelling experiences. We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said. For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. What is Burstly?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

However, most enterprises are overlooking an existing, in-house bank of computing resources--desktops and otherwise idle computers--which could help reduce the costs and give them more control over their cloud computing. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Technology is transforming every aspect of business, and our technology is one piece of the puzzle that helps them get there. Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. Bryan Cheung: In 2009, we switch to a subscription model. How did the company start?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Why are they doing it on textPlus? People like free.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The team at Recycled Bride knows weddings are expensive, time-consuming to plan, and that’s the reason they want to make it easy to source great deals on pricey wedding items, and help you recover some of the money spent. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. Who are the founders and what are their backgrounds?

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. So, how long has the company been around? We've been live for around thirteen months.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Kian Saneii: What we have is a platform that helps all sorts of channel partners, including family members, assisted living facilities, home care and home health providers, and even insurance companies, help the elderly to stay home longer and more comfortably. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. How did the company come about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. Facebook now accounts for a staggering 25% of all display impressions (up from 9% last year), and Facebook and its advertisers are finally beginning to understand how to leverage the platform's unique capabilities.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Sean Broihier: We are an online art marketplace, and help living artists and photographers sell prints of their artwork. 2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. I realized that I should build a platform to put content. First of all, tell us what Fine Art America is all about?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. In late fall and winter of 2009, it had reached 8-10 million players already. Why the interest in that area?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences , founded in 2009 to advance a fluorescing biologic agent intended to help surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, has completed a $20 million Series C round of venture funding.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange. That's why Microsoft picked us for this platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Like all good players, they figured out they needed more tools to help them out, so they started out a business, and built out a very robust platform for tournaments for Counterstrike and other games. John Maffei: Titan Gaming was originally started by two McGill students, who were hard-core, Counterstrike players.

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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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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Our dream went beyond monthly cocktail events, and together we created a new vision for how we could help innovators everywhere. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

I saw an opportunity to bring enterprise software-like selling methodologies to digital advertising and support that with a platform to make the selling and buying process more efficient. and there is an independent trading platform supporting it (SABRE Systems) that enforces pricing rules, and that an entire ecosystem has grown up around.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Those deals require that a certain minimum people participate, and many also have a maximum number to take advantage of those limited time specials, which helps them to get more exposure and business, plus helps out the community. How did DealPerk.com come about? Albert Ko: I've always liked the local edge.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Recycling Waste Platform. 28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders, the CEO and co-founder, of the company is hoping to change that, by providing tools to consumers to help pay off their debt and achieve their life goals. The company already had momentum, and $350,000 in revenue, providing a special process to help banks communicated with defaulted borrowers. 500 company.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. PathMotion - provides relevant career and job search by helping consumers identify their career goals and learn from the experience of others. Teacheo - an online tutoring platform with a live virtual classroom.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. Early on, there were some challenges with people who were hesitant to try a plugin and download something new, but what has really helped us is the press that we have received, and the confirmation that other people are using it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Essentially, we're still oriented around social shopping, where our fundamental value proposition is helping consumers figure out what to buy. That's why we exist, and why we are a company, to help consumers figure out that fundamental question. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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