socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I responded to his tweet, we chatted on the phone and he asked me to co-host the event on Dec 14th, 2010. As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (now an official sponsor of the event), I first reached out to my fellow board members. The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I responded to his tweet, we chatted on the phone and he asked me to co-host the event on Dec 14th, 2010. As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California, I first reached out to my fellow board members. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, YouTube and many others.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 1, 2012

Tech Cofounder Dating LA presents: The Top 5 UX (user experience)Designers in LA all in one room for an interactive event: Yahoo!, Thursday, June 7, 2012 -- UX Design: The GOOD, BAD and UGLY > 5 Guests. Chill,docstoc, BetterWorks and eHarmony. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). The closing event was the filming of a live version of Jason Calacanis’ “This Week in Start-Ups” (appropriately named TWiST – episode is here ).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

In addition, all of that content, those two thousand games, all feed back to our studios in Southern California, where we continue to slice and dice and enhance that content for further distribution. We work hand in hand with schools and school districts around the country, so that we can get access to sporting events and cover it.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

To solve that issue, Mike, as well as a number of other entrepreneurs here in Southern California, is in the midst of organizing Students4Startups (www.students4startups.com), a group which hopes to connect graduating students in the area to local startup companies. So where is the effort now, and what are your next steps?

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The seven minute piece went on to showcase many of our accomplishments as a company, including the awarding of Services Company of the Year in 2006 by the Tech Council of Southern California and our back to back wins of “Best of Computer Repair&# in Santa Barbara, voted on by readers of the Independent. Must sleep well tonight!

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. We had met about a year ago at an Irvine Chamber of Commerce event.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. event I did last fall.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer event is turning to be the best one yet! So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! 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.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, He helped develop an airline tracking system for Homeland Security and is an organizer of the Agile Open SoCal conference. and Schlumberger.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Join the Digital LA group if you haven't already to get our event updates! Attendees work at Sony Pictures, FOX Interactive, MySpace, Google, Yahoo!, Digital LA organizes mixers for professionals in online entertainment, marketing, and advertising. Stop on by for informal casual networking. See [link] (more).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Babak founded Third Wave Ventures in 1996 to help guide the growth of emerging high technology companies in Southern California, Among his endeavors, Babak was an early founder of Innovent Systems, which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation for $759M and now forms the core of Broadcom’s wireless group.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

John Nahm: Phonevite is a community-based, voice broadcasting service, which allows the "average joe" -- or any small organization -- to send event reminders, emergency alerts, or any kind of group communications out over the phone. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services.

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Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

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. What are the best startup events in LA? Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. 1B+ Revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. When you spend time with analysts, associates, principals and even EIR’s realize that many of them have “influence” (e.g.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). is equally convenient as in Silicon Valley.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo ! In his first season he went 10-6 and made it to the playoffs so fans celebrated. But we all know the type at is at every event.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. One of the firm's co-founders, Adam Lieber , is now the founder and CEO of Webtide (www.webtide.com), which is also based here. It's extremely widely used.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. Capsule is an event planning and group sharing platform built to help anyone who is planning, attending, or organizing a trip, party, or event.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Replay the event. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. NAME Google. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT.

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