SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 15, 2009

Thursday, May 21, 2009 -- GetHired 2.0. Panelists scheduled to attend the event include hiring representatives from Disney ABC Television Group, Warner Brothers, MySpace, Demand Media, CyberCoders, NeoHire and more.

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Demand Media Company Companies 100

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MAY 13, 2009

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 -- Social Networking as a Business Strategy. Learn from an all star panel including Facebook, MySpace and YouTube on how to monetize the power of social networks. We will be exploring how to make money from social networking from many angles. Seating is limited. Book early as this event will sell out.

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Social Network Networking Technology Council TCOSC 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Managing Online Communities. Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, will broadcast "This Week in Start-Ups" live from the event and his guests will be community experts Peter Hirshberg, chairman of The Conversation Group and Michael Jones, COO of MySpace. Digital Family Summit.

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Mahalo USC Startup 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Carter was a co-founder/partner at Amplify.LA, and also was founder of Vertical Technologies, Thoughtstar, and S5 Wireless'' Hurff was formerly the EVP of Engineering at MySpace, and also was an EIR at Science Inc. Back in 2009, everyone had an opinion on how I should pitch people. Explain exactly how Zuma Ventures works?

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 20, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009 -- Raising Money From Angel Investors. with Jason Nazar (CEO Docstoc.com), Brett Brewer (co-founder of Intermix/MySpace), Matt Coffin (founder and CEO LowerMyBills), and Rick Smith (Managing Director Crosscut Ventures). Join us for "Uncensored" Town Hall "Raising Money" ?

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Angel 100

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

By December of 2009, with our little portfolio of simple games such as Snowball Fight, we were at 27 million monthly user son Facebook, and we were one of the top 10 developers on Facebook in terms of pure reach. Michael Witz: I originally wanted to do a game on MySpace, so we started developing a game for MySpace.

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IP PHP Design Startup 217

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009 -- "Bootstrapping an Agile Team" Scrum Club. Please join LA Scrum Club and Rally Software for a special evening on Monday, February 9th with local Agile luminaries: Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation, Scott Downey, ScrumMaster at MySpace, and George Schlitz, Principal Coach at Big Visible Solutions.At

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Gorilla Nation CTO Coach Downey Coach 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 15, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 -- Expanding Business with Social Media. Companies that dont are finding out the hard way that their customers are using services like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and FriendFeed to share their experiences  both good and bad  with specific brands.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Case Study Satisfaction 100

Both Sides of the Table

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. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

Together these social signals indicate content that is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest). This technology allows us to see what is hot. This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 28, 2009

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 -- Online and Mobile Video. The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA), invite you to an exciting panel discussion with top digital media executives and venture capitalists followed by a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center.

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Mobile Break.com UCLA GRP Partners 100

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. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

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

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Why did YouTube win? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Both Sides of the Table

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. A great team from MySpace has created Gravity. I have one message for you, ‘get over it!

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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APRIL 17, 2010

Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. MOVIECLIPS : Launched December 2009 in Santa Monica, MOVIECLIPS is a premium online video destination offering audiences the largest and most diverse collection of movie scenes. We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Pincus said FrontierVille is most successful launch (1mm+ daily users in < 1 week).

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

There are also lots of tools to customize their store front, to match the look and feel of any destination they might have on the web--whether that's a MySpace page, their own site, etc. Brandon Hance: We launched our beta in February of 2009, and quickly put together powerful partnerships.

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Tech Coast Angels Van Nuys Startup Web 191

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009. IPO in 1996).

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Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

It's a place where 20-somethings can brand professionally with a profile, similar to Facebook or MySpace, but in a professional manner. Gregg Champion: OneCubicle.com is a social business network for people on their first, second, and third jobs. You can also use the service to network to your next job.

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Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

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. Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Paperless billing for consumers.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Ive personally seen big companies such as Ticketmaster and MySpace do a great job building an extremely talented team of highly motivated, Scrappy engineers.

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Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

But before it was popular en masse to do so they quit the cozy confines of a big VC firm and set out on their own along with the third co-founder who is one of LA’s more experienced Internet operators – Brett Brewer (co-founder of team that launched MySpace, president at AdKnowledge). They had only one problem.

News 150

News Funding Venture Capital Dollar Shave Club 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

The code for each site is very simple: Twitter: Plurk: Delicious: Digg: Facebook: MySpace (I think this is right but I don’t have a login to test it): Ping.fm: StumbleUpon: LinkedIn: Place these anywhere you’d like on a static page or in the Wordpress theme file that controls single posts (typically single.php).

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JavaScript RSS HTML Doc 29

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! All of these approaches made major headway in 2009 and are poised for mainstream use in 2010. The top 10 posts of 2009 Enterprise 2.0: The 2009 year in review What will power next-generation businesses?

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Here it is: March 28, 2009. Nominees: Circle of Eight I Married on MySpace Valemont Wreck and Salvage: Suppendapo. Hard work went into this awards' show and these people are doing something risky by putting on the Streamys. Still, this year was so far from perfect, so far from last year's in production quality, it begs discussion.

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Web News Technical Review Writing 40