Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Now TakeLessons has completed another acquisition, buying Chromatik, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of digital sheet music.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital Santa Monica San Diego Coach 59

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. This is a pretty big round and is a lot of funding--what are you using it for? Gil, thanks for the time today. In the case of the U.S.,

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. My views are pretty well known. I hate Silicon Whatever. LA should be LA.”

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). What is CHNL?

Social Network 104

Social Network Networking Content Web 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Then came blogs. That was a kerfuffle too.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. We also have some really interesting opportunities in the social web that the business has not previously pursued, which will actually let people in the social web know who we are.

Newsletter 165

Newsletter Sites Content Advertising 165

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. Back to the company, what's your status now in terms of funding?

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. He blogs here and tweets here. a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44