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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, and angels. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2011

Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. in its new round of funding, which was led by Emergence Capital Partners. Other investors, aside form Anthem and DFJ Frontier, were RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and Square 1 Bank.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of software-as-a-service tools for managing investors communications and exchanges between startups and their investors, told its users today that it has added a number of new features to the site. Tags: caplinked saas software investor venture capital financial. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Product Manager at Yahoo! Source of the funding was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2012

A new, Altadena-based startup, Rexter , has scored some funding to help it build its software algorithms and tools to help manage a user's professional relationships. The company--co-founded by Andy Wilson (Momentum Venture Partners, Yahoo) and John Slade (Yahoo)--apparently recently raised a round which included Siemer Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, That died with waterfall software development. Why do VC’s care about these years? portfolios.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? I continue to be intensely interested in the growing integration of AI across multiple products and industries, from simple applications on up to highly sophisticated software and services. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

Rogers was also formerly GM of Yahoo! Topspin Media said that Beats will integrate its direct-to-fan marketing and retail software in "Daisy". Beats said that Rogers will head up Daisy as it sets to launch in late 2013, as a stand alone company. Size of that investment was not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

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

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Rockwell Automation is investing $1 billion in PTC, as the two companies team up to advance their vision of software-driven factories and industrial operations. The news sent PTC’s stock (NASDAQ: PTC ) to a record high for the company, according to Yahoo Finance data. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Clinton Foy , General Partner and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc). Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. We've always known how important it is as VCs to invest in founders. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! I hope to offer experiences from being an entrepreneur and being a VC.&#. I started blogging 2 years ago.

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socalTECH

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. tech software instant google search enterprise srch2 bhatia'

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! Under Rob’s leadership we built out an amazing organization of seasoned enterprise software veterans in the US market. and Microsoft had become.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. David founded Geocities back in 1994, took it public in 1998, and in 1999 Yahoo bought the firm as a public company. He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. That said, we still need investors here. Why not Los Angeles? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. We don't have any outside investors, venture capital, or private equity. What is Scour?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

On Losing in VC. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! I’m talking about the hard fought battle. The one that you thought you had.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

On Losing in VC. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! I’m talking about the hard fought battle. The one that you thought you had.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

I have worked as an entrepreneur in mobile gaming and an executive in the entertainment industry, and worked at Yahoo and also as a management consulting. What I love about Los Angeles, is the breadth of industries here, and you can really see how technology and software are eating the world, here in our backyard.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. If you’re an entrepreneur or software ninjette who wants to make a full-time income from your web. Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. But even this is changing. Yes, Google won.

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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.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

Even with prominent breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn, and others, how many consumers actually take the time to enable that second factor? The main institutional money in the company is a firm called Toba Ventures. You might remember Quest Software and Vinny Smith. That's where things are today. We are lazy.

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JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. I've also been involved in ValueLogic software. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc., Then I started working for these companies as well.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)? I hear Silicon Valley firms bragging all the time about how often they release software.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Csathy was President and Chief Operating Officer of MusicMatch, Inc.,

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

I have been involved with a number of companies that had raised a large amount of money, and one of the things I really wanted to do, was do something that didn't require a large amount of venture capital--something that we could do with a small, lean team. Tags: software messaging startup interview bccthis waldman dave.

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SoCal Delicious

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. Previously, Ian co-founded personal music sharing software provider Mediacode with Rob Lord.

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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. Venture capital. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software. Monitoring Software. Project Management Software. More Software. Remote Desktop Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. So Small Talk was a big object-oriented programming language, and a bunch of people from our company went to work at Small Talk, and they all went into the software industry.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace.

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APRIL 24, 2015

And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals. We had to invent a lot of software to deal with fraud and tracking, and we are doing the same thing here. Why aren't venture capitalists interested in sports?

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