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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The startup, which is led by Robert Flynn, said it will use the funding to launch new sites and grow its advertising sales. aggregage venture capital newsletter software automated content analysis aggregation publishing news blog angel tech coast angels' READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels El Segundo Newsletter Blogging 113

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Internet portal Yahoo confirmed Wednesday afternoon that it has hired Ross Levinsohn , former head of Fox Interactive Media, and current venture capitalist at Fuse Capital, as its new Executive Vice President of Americas. Tags: yahoo ross levinsohn executive media content. News of the hiring was first reported by AllThingsD.

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Yahoo Media News Report 178

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Los Angeles-based Trigon Digital , the provider of digital advertising anf other services to both the traditional and online radio market, is powering a number of features of the new, free music streaming service from Microsoft, Xbox Music , the company said this week. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Services Ticketmaster Advertising Los Angeles 159

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. Advertisers, wake the f**k up. How about your largest increases in car sales? His son then went on to raise more than $1.1

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Media Content Course Technical Review 269

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JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content. So, we start with that.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. I joined about a year ago--a bunch of us did--and looked at where Sidebar was as it was gearing up for a full consumer launch of its personalized content portal. How is the company funded?

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Content Screening Mobile Custom 189

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

That's the story behind Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com), which saw a great exit last week as it was acquired by content management software developer Lakana. 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.

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Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Channel M will handle technology, content production, network installation, and advertising sales for Money Mart. Channel M is venture backed by Ascend Venture Group, Benedek Investment Group, Integral Capital Partners, and Vintage Capital Partners. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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JULY 1, 2010

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. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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JANUARY 11, 2019

The content that we serve is all new music and releases. Anne Kavanaugh: I came through the ranks of sales and marketing. I worked with the Irish Independent, the national broadsheet in Ireland, in print ad sales. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising.

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Startup Advertising Marketing Platform 113

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Agility Studios said that the new company is backed by Mantucket Capital, a private investment firm with over $1B under management. Exact terms and amount of the funding was not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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JANUARY 11, 2019

The content that we serve is all new music and releases. Anne Kavanagh: I came through the ranks of sales and marketing. I worked with the Irish Independent, the national broadsheet in Ireland, in print ad sales. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising. Finally, how are you funding the company?

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Startup Advertising Marketing Platform 100

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MAY 24, 2011

I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital. That's now what we're advertising.

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. How does this work? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials.

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Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

We have exclusive content, including videos that people can download in the app itself to watch, and if you're at an away game, you can even listen to your own announcer and turn down the audio when you are watching TV. Depending on who you are, and where you are, we can deliver different advertising. How did you get into this?

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Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. John Wanamaker.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

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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. Overture became intrigued by Quigo’s AdSonar technology and wanted help targeting ads for their content business.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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MAY 7, 2012

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. all of that for more than a 100,000 members.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

One aspect of this past summer’s Silicon Beach Fest (SBF) I personally enjoyed, among everything else presented that weekend, was learning all about the new multi-channel networks available to showcase online content. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

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MARCH 4, 2010

We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content. Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. As long as the content fits in the bucket, we approve it to go into the marketplace.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Also, because of the internal dynamics of the talent pool, it effectively lead to more companies in the preponderant areas, which at the time were e-commerce, ad-tech, and disruptive media or media-related companies�such as game companies, companies that were in music, or companies related to the distribution of content.

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Startup Entrepreneur Funding Incubator 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On the legal side, my practice in North California and we have an advertising and media group in New York City. When you had an explosion of content developers that wanted to be in LA with all the resource that the entertainment industry has available here, all the creative people want to be here. That’s what happened.

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Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

When you think about the great achievement of the Internet in aiding content, commerce & communication they include: Large scales of connected people & information never seem before in humanity. But if you are growing uber fast, building for scale and have access to capital to fund your growth then it’s always the smart play.

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Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

The first market is in brand advertising, where we're working with ad companies and clients to create solutions for shows and exhibitions where guests can interact with a brand. We have some clients like Six Flags in the US, Infiniti for brand advertising, plus Air France, Boeing, and Airbus. How is the company funded and backed?

Startup 100

Startup Advertising Los Angeles Sales 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

Google chose Playa Vista to establish YouTube Space LA , its flagship center for content creation. Executives from Sony Pictures, Disney and Interscope Records are among those who recently purchased homes, joining residents who are executives from Google and 72andSunny , the advertising agency also housed here in Playa Vista.

Entertainment 108

Entertainment Santa Monica Journal Belkin 108

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Scott will share data and results from both ChaCha and other industry sources that will highlight the compelling opportunity that brand advertisers now have in the mobile arena. 9:00am: Keynote Presentation: Mobile Advertising: The Hype, The Hope, and The Financial Reality. Presenter: Scott A. But does every brand need an app?

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40

InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

Capital Cards. We pooled our resources and each invested $50 into the adVenture, which we named Capital Cards, due to our proximity to Washington, DC. We quickly built upon our meager initial capital by buying and selling cards that otherwise would likely have ended up in landfills. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Pricing 138

Pricing Advertising Marketing Startup 138

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

One would imagine with so much influence and potential capital flying in the packed room, the atmosphere must have felt thicker than a frenzied shark tank. About $37B worth of lost sales a year, worldwide. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators.

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Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. Pose is no different. companies versus the Web 1.0

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