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JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? The two things that are mostly lacking from people's investment experience are the lack of a wide network of people to refine investment ideas with, and the best available content about companies they are considering investing in. What is Stockr all about?

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking web site MySpace said Tuesday afternoon that it has named three executives for the firm's music community, MySpace Music. Kantrowitz was most recently SVP International Marketing and Content for MySpace; Maghen was CTO at Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. 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.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2009

According to ReachLocal, the new technology platform is targeted at both major and "long tail" Internet publishers, who want to tap into local online ads. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Google would be in peril.

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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. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. This technology allows us to see what is hot.

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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 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Now, a new, Los Angeles team--led by Josh Meyers --is tapping a team of experience LA technology vets to take what is a diamond in the rough, and polish it up, to bring the deal site to the next level. Josh Meyers: Slickdeals is the web''s largest deal sharing community. Talk about Slickdeals and what it is all about?

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socalTECH

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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. In my view almost all ideas are derivative.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. Early evidence is good.

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SoCal CTO

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. How do you use LinkedIn?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. Our focus was to utilize new technology for streaming over the internet, broadcasting underserved sports which normally don't end up on TV, in HD quality, for viewers across the country and world. What is IBN Sports?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. Yahoo made the decision that they could not, or would not be able to make the level of investment required to keep up with Google.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

We caught up with the firm's CEO, Jason Spievak, to learn more about the firm's technology, as well as to hear about the company's experienced team, which came out of Callwave. Explain your technology? Jason Spievak: At a high level, what we do, is enable affiliate networks to track calls like they do clicks. How does this work?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I know I didn’t.

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socalTECH

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. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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socalTECH

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. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 And so it goes with social networking.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

So step by step, she began the works on what is now Grokker.com , the expert video network, to address this need. The network produces its own videos in-house, featuring a notable network of expert yogis, chefs, trainers and fitness instructors, and also curates a selection of the best videos from around the Web.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

(sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Their focus is green technology. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. wonder what that might be?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. We also have direct relationsihps with Yahoo's Precision Match team, and they provide a very optimized feed on our resume and job search resumes.

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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. billion to Yahoo! I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. uh, hello!

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JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. The third thing, is it has given us an access to a great network of investors, not just in Boulder, but in California too.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Similar to VoiceXML, the standard for the past 5-yrs.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

David founded Geocities back in 1994, took it public in 1998, and in 1999 Yahoo bought the firm as a public company. The first couple of weeks, we were almost like a startup--getting things set up, infrastructure, email, and also doing lots of networking to get back in touch with the guys I've worked with in Southern California.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Social networking. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Not only does Southern California have leaders in technology, we have innovators.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. 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. He is a frequent public speaker. Alex Quilici. gigaom.com. .

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? 1B+ Revenue.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

FatTail is really interesting, in that for the last three years or so it's been stealthy and underground, and has perfected some great technology solutions in the area, and is now working with about 500 different publishers. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0, Our investments is their first institutional round.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. The result is a 2Mbyte royalty free plug-in that is remarkably easy to integrate with other web-based applications. What inspired you to come up with the idea? Future plans?

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