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MAY 9, 2011

Google's online video sharing site YouTube , said today that it has inked a deal to add around 3,000 movie titles for rent through the site, as it looks to broaden its offerings from the amateur, web-based videos its is known for towards more traditional, professional content. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2010

Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. We're trying to make monitoring of web sites and applications sexy and simple. When Google slows down by 500ms, they lose 0.59 I'll give you some numbers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Though based on our Web searches, those ads don’t necessarily represent what we would like to buy. Houston —Knowledge is power, but too much of a good thing can render data meaningless.

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Commerce Social Media Google Web 72

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!” He was seeking $500k.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This was the first in her string of web properties. She’s now the leading marketplace for women’s used wedding dresses and accessories and ranks 2nd in Google for the term “Used Wedding Dress.” She floundered a bit working with contractors before finally settling on an agency to build her first site for $20,000.

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JUNE 19, 2015

What if searching for people to recruit to your company was as easy as running a search in Google? That's the idea behind Connectifier (www.connectifier.com), an Orange County-based startup led by John Jersin --whose founders and many of its employees have come from Google, Amazon, and other companies where search is a part of their DNA.

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JANUARY 27, 2013

The start of this series was, Should Your Startup Announce Funding ? ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) It’s also important for recruiting, fund raising, business development and even company morale. It’s the same thing for me as a writer. Kind of obvious.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0 READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? What's your status--you're still self funded? Dave Newmark: We're still self funded. Broadcast isn't like that.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The new program--similar to Google's AdSense program--links ReachLocal's ads into publisher web sites directly, rather than through Google or Yahoo's online ad networks. ReachLocal is venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures and Galleon Special Opportunities Partners Fund LP. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You should also use these forums to test and hone your solution idea for general acceptance, before your risk your own money and investor funds to build a shippable version. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

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Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. LivingSocial.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

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JULY 27, 2009

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. We didn't talk to Google Maps team to get Maps running--it works straight out of the box.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

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. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). So did the media.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Administer users?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

It is the most viable way to not only get project funding but more importantly to get customer validation. Statistics show that 60% of projects on crowdfunding sites fail to reach their funding goals. Web Series. Cause related campaigns (only for certain crowd-funding platforms). Music Project. Art Project.

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Statistics Entertainment Google Web 90

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5 What is all that funding going towards? Adam, thanks for the time.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Administer users?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2013

It means you’ve anticipated what your customers will need as they move up the power curve, For example, Google is a one-stop source for your online needs, ranging from simple search to managing your e-mail, to analyzing your Web site. A deep product or service has a robust set of features. The selection is incredibly deep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The firm said its new offering, ReachDisplay, will help local advertisers place online visual display ads on multiple web sites. ReachLocal helps local businesses--who otherwise would not have the knowledge or time--to place ads on online ad programs such as Google's AdWords and Yahoo. The firm is backed by $67.9M READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM Overture never built the destination site to monetize from.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? This last season, we did over 600 high school football games all over the country, and signed a partnership with Google/YouTube and others. Can you talk about how the YouTube/Google relationship works, as much as you can?

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Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. Plus, we have mobile optimized sites, and those are just scratching the surface now, there''s a huge amount of growth potential with mobile traffic available today.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds? Competitors: Google. Venture Financings we Discussed.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Instead of 20 comedies on one site, now you have 5000 on one site. Finally, how is the firm funded?

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UCSD Social Network Content Sites 145

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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Incubator Startup Help Resource 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. He then joined their venture fund, TheMailRoom Fund, which is where I met him.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. What's the story behind Savings.com?

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Sites Content Sales Demand 217

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. How's the company funded?

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Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! As you traveled the web and found stuff you liked you could “bookmark&# it (sound familiar) so that you could find it again. It’s at the core of what Delicious was.

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RSS News Blogging Yahoo 349

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. So hot that even Google is getting in on the act. Others I have not.

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