socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

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JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Last month, Santa Monica-based PointHub (www.pointhub.com) announced a new, online service aimed at helping travelers better use their mileage and loyalty points. What ShopZilla needed to do, was write a search engine which could crawl and build a structure around the web. What is PointHub? That's what we've built at PointHub.

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Startup Pricing Ideas Writing 166

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. Also East of the 405?

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Santa Monica 304

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

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APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney.

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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? Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. In the bay area you have Facebook stealing employees from Google, Zynga stealing from Facebook, and some new hotshot startup ready next in line to pounce.

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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio.

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Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

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JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. If I write $2 million and we hit a bump in the road, I can write another $2 million. Am I allowed to say this?

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

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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