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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. David Siemer: More generally, the M&A market is solid.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California. However (More.).

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JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Here's the contribution by Matt Stodder of StartupBoost LA (our apologies to Matt for the late post, our fault, not his!). READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com),

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 -- Paid Search Engine Marketing Now. Year 2010 Tips of the Trade for Buying and Converting your traffic on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Whether you are a small business owner or a marketing manager for a large multinational corporation, taking advantage of paid search advertising is a must.

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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. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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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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JUNE 6, 2011

To try to change that, two entrepreneurs, Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, are launching a new effort called Upstart LA (www.upstart.la), which aims to bring that venture accelerator model into this market. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc.,

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JULY 22, 2019

Matt Kozlov: We created this program, because there has been lots of recent advances in the growth of the commercial, military, and civil space economy here in our backyard in Southern California. We also have companies where space is not the only commercial market for them. So how did you get into this? READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

Because of that, we figured out that we had a market, especially with the movement of ad dollars towards the Internet and Internet video. We're now in 23 states and sixteen of the top television markets, and are spread over 600 high schools over the country. This year, we'll do 2,000 high school football games and sports this year.

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MARCH 17, 2010

But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. So it’s always a trade-off.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time. We''re in four major U.S.

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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. Founded in 2010 by Eric M.

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APRIL 24, 2012

He saw the power of user generated content, and the power of building a passionate community online, which certainly led to a good thing with Yahoo. It's a really big, passionate market, and there's a need for connective tissue between families and the kids involved. Lane Soelberg: The team was pretty dispersed.

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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. It''s really a Southern California story. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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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. in Computer Science.

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APRIL 19, 2011

We'll discuss how content creators and brands work together to create, develop, and market digital branded entertainment, distributed via online, mobile, iPad, etc. Speakers include David Beebe, Director, ABC Digital Studio; Neal Weiss, Head of Creative Development, Yahoo!

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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. Mike tells us about the group: Mike, thanks for the time today.

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MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? We work with studios to understand those early audiences, and give them feedback on social marketing and making their marketing more effective.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Csathy was the former CEO of SightSpeed, which he sold to Logitech last year, and also served as COO of MusicMatch, which was sold to Yahoo in 2004. Peter Csathy: One reason we're expanding into San Diego, is we wanted to be more in the heart of digital media in Southern California. What is Sorenson Media about?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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

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APRIL 8, 2014

We feel that we can really help with manufacturing and bringing products to market. Our expertise is in manufacturing, in bringing products to market, and advising those companies. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. That said, we still need investors here.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Despite our business model reservations, we were sufficiently intrigued by Jeff and the opportunity to seek technical and market feedback from a VoIP expert. thinks his product is probably much easier to (use than) VoiceXML, but he is not sure that the ease of use will offset the market confusion. > -jeff.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Ultimately, we're build tools for marketers on top of that. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games.

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JUNE 17, 2011

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. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. wonder what that might be?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email. What is Sendgrid?

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JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. What that means, is we have a software tool, used primarily by companies who are putting on events for marketing reasons. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. It's a marketing experience.

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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. Imagine having been pitched Facebook in a world where MySpace seemed to be running away with market share or more recently having been pitched Twitter when Facebook seemed unstoppable.

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MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. They had agreed!

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. They had agreed!

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media (..)

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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. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The service is for sites targeting foreign markets, who are determining how to better optimize and tune how they are engaging around the globe. So do you handle both the management and translation? There's lots of media and blogs in Southern California, who could use it as well. The last place I worked was at Yahoo.

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