socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. I've been in the ad network business, helping Adconian, and know the web site publishing world. Our space is pretty young.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

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MAY 23, 2012

The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. Today we’re online 3.1

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. The mobile web would finally be open!

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

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APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. This also would give the client the upper hand in discussions with advertisers, image providers, URL shorteners, etc.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287