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JANUARY 17, 2013

The company said the new funds will go towards growth, financing acquisitions, and international expansion. That growth was driven by its real-time-bidding exchange, plus the acquisitions of two companies, LiftDNA and Jumptime. Global Investment, Inc., and Presidio Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

El Segundo-based Internet Brands , the Internet media firm headed by Bob Brisco, has been acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners, in a deal worth approximately $640M. Internet Brands owns a wide network of online web sites in a number of verticals. The price is a premium of approximately 46.5

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MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Intead, the firm is using FAN's acquisition to add around 100 employees from FAN as part of its engineering and product team. Rubicon Project operates a service which helps web publishers optimize the advertising on the site, by selecting the best ad networks to run on a particular publisher page. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2010

A little known Southern California venture capital investor is benefiting from the IPO of Silicon Valley-based Fabrinet today, after Fabrinet said it has priced its IPO and will list on the New York Stock Exchange. Shea web site. Tags: venture capital fabrinet merger acquisition.

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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MARCH 23, 2009

Santa Monica-based Total Beauty Media , which operates a user-generated beauty product reviews web site, said today that it has acquired competitor BeautyRiot , and scored a Series C funding round. The financial details behind the acquisition and funding were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. MindJolt offers up a broad catalog of casual and social games from its site. www.cocodot.com).

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MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Quigo set up a system on specific web pages.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. venture capital exits in. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. As part of our.

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MAY 23, 2011

San Diego-based Active Network , the operator of online sports and event registration web sites, is expected to IPO this week on Wednesday, according to the NASDAQ's IPO calendar. Active Network has indicated it will sell 11,000,000 shares of its common stock in its IPO, at between $16.00 and $18.00

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APRIL 13, 2009

Rubicon said that the Series B follow-on funding will go twards strategic acquisitions, research and development, international expansion, and infrastructure. Rubicon Project operates a service which helps online publishers optimize which advertising networks to use on their web sites, to improve their CPMs. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value.

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MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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MAY 4, 2010

Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Foursquare. -A a fbFund winner.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We caught up with CEO and co-founder Brett Rossman to learn more about the company and how it''s been able to grow, profitably, all without raising a dime of outside capital. We generate thousands of new customers everyday for clients such as Ally Bank, GE Capital, Transunion, and a few other big brands. We do that methodically.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences.

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JULY 11, 2012

In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. Unlike anywhere else on the web, you can then respond directly when you see that comment. What's your background and how did you start the site? We wanted to tackle that problem, by using a social network. Vinny Jindal: I was originally a scientist.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

The startup was co-founded by Keith Bonnici, Omar Nicola, and Jake Moilanen, and was venture backed by TenOne Ten Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and local angels. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Most people really hadn't tapped into the mobile web.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People looking for an African safari, philanthropic opportunities, Doctors Without Borders, learning a second language, or going to a music festival for the first time, can connect with AdventureLink via any channel--whether that is a local travel agency, through a major online travel site, or through AdventureLink.com.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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MARCH 20, 2007

In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Everyone is now pretty much selling direct on apparel sites now.

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. I think you’ll enjoy watching.

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MARCH 13, 2007

March 14, 2007 10:47 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. Our whole model from beginning was to run ourselves, and run the fund in a capital efficient manner.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's.

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MARCH 1, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 12:50 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 2:57 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies.

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MARCH 5, 2007

[link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The other key business we are in is the aftermarket and registrar business, through SnapNames and Moniker, two acquisition we made. So, we've started to do that organically, and through some acquisitions. Frankly, most people don't have the capital and management depth to be able to scale up and take advantage of the economy of size.

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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. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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