Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. In fact, so many DID NOT that companies like Google & Yahoo! Palo Also is about 35 miles south of San Francisco. Palo Alto is home to Stanford.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. What was behind that decision?

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. How did this all come about? I ran it for almost a decade.

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. The old media companies were resistant to change. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive. Much bigger.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? You need a CDN to improve the performance of your content, especially as the web is getting heavier, more complicated, and there's more rich media.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. In the case of Demand Media, they looked at us to be a host for their data within the health vertical. How does that work?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. This was the first in her string of web properties. Danny became a small investor in Recycled Media (the parent company of Recycled Bride) and became one of Tracy’s lead advisors. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. What are you working on now?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. to 11:00 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD., The Startups.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

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 #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Buying GumGum is similar to the way traditional media is bought but with a different execution. Ophir considers GumGum as part technology and part media company. They’ve expanded their sales and operations from Santa Monica to include New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Atlanta. GumGum’s goals.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. -A Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools. It’s the only site aside from Google I go to every single day so that I don’t miss out on an incredible offer. NOT because the founder of the company has an established credibility working for both Facebook and MINT when those companies were in infancy.

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Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Stay tuned for the upcoming Ming.ly public beta launch and join our beta list at [link] Ming.ly is also hiring.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. The 1st place winner was SnazzyRoom, an online styling tool for mixing and matching items on the web ( SnazzyRoom.com ). Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. A substantial portion of Venices real-estate boom is attributable to Google. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44