socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We spoke with Derrick Oien, president and co-founder of the firm, about the company's mobile social networking applications, as well as about his view on penetrating the mobile carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? The second customer is the social networking sites.

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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?

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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. So, that didn't scale well.

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Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 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. So, that didn't scale well.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

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.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. I have started blogging again having taken a hiatus since 2007 (actually, I was initially embargoed by Salesforce.com who didn’t want me blogging after they acquired my company). So what gives? Thank you, Twitter.

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