socalTECH
MARCH 6, 2014
Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who got his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, then went to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, and built Intel from an initial $2.5
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).
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MARCH 17, 2010
We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 23, 2010
Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. He blogs here and tweets here. 1B+ Revenue.
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 17, 2011
He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Event Details. When: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Price: $15 (Early Bird).
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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. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. In our regions?
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MARCH 11, 2011
All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo!
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