socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

According to SnapNames, it discovered the shill bidding by that employee in October, finding that the bids had gone on since March of 2005--well before Oversee.net bought SnapNames, in June of 2007.

Oversee.net 133

Oversee.net Report Customer Custom 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar.

Internet Brands 190

Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

The firm, which offers both free and premium mass notification systems, was started in San Jose in 2007 by Nahm and co-founder Kalvin Kim. Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.

IP 100

IP Yahoo Web Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

According to the USPTO, Smith Micro filed for the patent in February of 2007, using Craig M. Smith Micro purchased Allume, the maker of StuffIt, in 2005; the software was originally developed by then-high school student Raymond Lau in 1987 for the Mac. Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP.

Patents 100

Patents Software Technology Help 100

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MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Invest Cloud Computing 150

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. Matt Cooper: What is really unique about Hollywood-style banner ads, is they've been video-based since 2007.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

In 2003, Vizio launched in Costco and then in Sams Club in 2005. The company brought on retailers Circuit City, Sears and Kmart in 2006 followed by mega retailer Walmart in 2007. Due to the addition of Walmart as a retailer, 2007 was the first year Vizio became the #1 HDTV manufacturer in the world.

Orange County 104

Orange County OCTANE Technical Review Outsource Development 104

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APRIL 2, 2010

If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

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APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2009

billion in 554 deals, invested -- the lowest quarter since 2005. billion, down 8 percent from 2007, when $31.4 According to the report, investments in Southern California total $421.80M across 51 deals, down from $902.16M and 58 deals in Q3. Nationally, venture capital investments slipped 30%, to only $5.5 billion in deals.

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCal Orange County Venture Capital 100

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 or 2005-2007 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

Invest 152

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

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APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. It’s a bit like if you bought a $1 million home in 2007 and want to sell it for $1 million today. One is slightly better and priced at $1 million, which you know from Zillow is what they paid for it in 2007.

Venture Capital 289

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 289

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. They launched this business in 2007, with the concept of building another virtual world and large scale game. How did the firm start?

Beverly Hills 182

Beverly Hills Advertising Design Activity 182

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Web 238

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. Cody Simms: Obviously, I live here in LA, and I have been since 2005. We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

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JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2

Startup 210

Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007.

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

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JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Organization 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Organization 100

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

Among the highest acquisition values were MySpace ($580M in 2005), Shopzilla ($560M in 2005), Rent.com ($430M in 2004), Lowermybills ($330M in 2005) and Sandpiper Networks ($630M in 1999). IPO in 1996).

Southern California 29

Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

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Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund.

Gogii 200

Gogii Mobile Activision Electronic Arts 200

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. We both studied at Copenhagen business school.

Design 65

Design Web Design Develop Development 65

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Archived Pamphlets Select Month January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 January 2009 October 2008 June 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 (..)

SEO 37

SEO IP Blogging PHP 37

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Even with the free users on the coattails, we're able to get some very healthy margins. How is the company funded?

Startup 100

Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. LowerMyBills, Inc.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007. So it's a white label offering.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Rincon’s Fund I portfolio is comprised of a number of such Serial Teams, some of which include: Alma mater, Rent.com: sold to eBay for $430 million. At its peak, CallWave generated $55 million of recurring subscription revenue in the Internet telephony space.

Startup 150

Startup IP Entrepreneur Software Review 150

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005. Last week, Ventura-based The Trade Desk (www.thetradedesk.com) announced a $2.5M funding round.

Advertising 157

Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.” These positive feelings extended fairly broadly, too; lower-income shoppers were more optimistic than they’d been at any time since 2005-6. In late October , however, the Confidence Index fell to 97.6,

Commerce 40

Commerce Sales Pricing Study 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer. It’s not publicly known exactly when Google began developing Chrome and Chromium, but it must have been late 2006 or early 2007 since Chrome launched in September 2008.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent. We made one announcement that year, in the first quarter, and had a huge adoption. The game consisted of a string of questions during the game that people could make predictions about.

Patents 179

Patents CarsDirect Sites Ideas 179

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JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309