socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Geni runs a Web 2.0-style style site to help people create family trees and connect with relatives through social networking features. The firm was started by former PayPal founder David Sacks, and is venture backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. READ MORE>>

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

For as long as I can remember, computer users have been complaining about the array of names and passwords required to get work done – a different unique user identification name and password are required to start the computer, email, social networks, banking, read online news, connect to the office, or check your phone bill.

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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. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. You did find some angel funding, didn't you?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 they released a new 2.0 I Be specific.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to fund in the video creation world. Participation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. They were envious.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The existing space on Wilshire is heavily used by meetups, business networking groups, as well as local startups, and we thought we'd talk with Jerome to better understand what the whole idea is behind the space and coworking. We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0, What's the idea behind coworking?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. Dave McClure. . Alex Quilici.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

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. The MRF was a committed fund of Accel, Venrock, AT&T and William Morris (one of LA’s largest talent agencies). Within 48 hours of meeting him we had a term sheet agreeing to fund $1.6

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2018

Humans have had a drastic physical evolution recently—one that has notably taken only a few years. While the evolution from hunched primates to homo sapiens took tens of millions of years, we needed only about a decade to develop an arched neck that is perennially looking down at a smartphone—presumably one with a social media app open.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

billion under management, in a number of funds, and we have been investing for the last year or two out of our existing $300 million fund. Obviously, we were looking at all kinds of solutions to make the process of buying and selling easier, especially in the network which we had built. We've had a pretty busy year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. They were envious.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 The firm is in the midst of raising a round of funding. Around that operating system, we developed a line of network attached storage, at a company called Procom Technology. Tell us a little bit about your background?

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

The National Science Foundation mainly funds professors to do research. Government-owned venture capital funds, like the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel ( [link] ) or the USDA's former AARC may be a great hybrid strategy (government-owned, private appearance). One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0"

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Venture Capital Funding 7. Prior to raising $16M+ in funding from top-tier venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital and Evercore Ventures, StrongMail was self-funded and cash-flow positive.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. L90 was the premier advertising network on the Internet. In fact, we probably had hundreds of competitors including seven that were either very well funded with significant venture capital or publicly held (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s help get their funding get finalized or the company sold if it’s already in play. And VCs scrambled to raise their own funds. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. Fundings boomed. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. Depressing.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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