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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. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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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). To learn more, we caught up with Steve. Every other hand goes down, and ours stays up.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Paul Kedrosky made the case for “naive optimism&# being an important part of startup success. I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. Not everybody agreed.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. TechZulu caught up with Martin LeBlanc Eigtved Founder and CEO of IconFinder. Steffen was working in another startup called 1Calendar and studying as well.

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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. Also, since most funds are 10-year funds there will be pressure in 2012 for this fund to start exiting its investments and return money to its shareholders.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. How about mergers and acquisitions?

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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. We talked with Jeff about his new startup, and where it fits into the Internet ad market. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Recently, we spoke with John Nahm, the CEO and co-founder of Phonevite (www.phonevite.com), a new startup in town which recently relocated from Silicon Valley. We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. Explain what Phonevite is?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? 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. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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JUNE 22, 2011

People get too worked up over the word. 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. Perhaps this will trend up massively but historical data doesn’t bode well. Why I believe we’re in a bubble.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A few weeks ago, Beverly Hills-based Meteor Games , the latest startup from the founders of NeoPets, announced that it had hired Zac Brandenberg as its CEO. How did the firm start? Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. What's the business model you have for social games?

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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. They were Flipagram LLC.

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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. They were Flipagram LLC.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. 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.

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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. Mark Suster: Let's start at the 50,000 foot level, then I'll segue into that question.

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MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. startup scene so hot. a great place for startups?

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APRIL 25, 2011

We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup. We loved the mobile space, and when we sold Jamdat we felt that market was just getting started. We felt there had to be an easier way to reach a broad audience in mobile, so we started looking at messaging.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. 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.

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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. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. It's just sign up here, so we can get them into the system.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

So do these show up as your brand or as an OEM deal with the carriers? 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 are used as a white label. With Sprint it's Social Zone.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Jose daVeiga: In a nugget, we started Klicksports to empower sports fans with the ability to interact with sports they like, and with each other, in an interactive way which also provides them with information, on the fly. We started in 2006, with an in-venue trial at the Alamo Bowl, where we gave out prizes and coupons.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. Let me start with a couple of stories. He’s been at it since 2005. But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner. I believe this is wrong.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. started blogging again outlined here. Here is some anecdotal evidence: 1. So what gives?

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

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 billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 How'd you decide to start FindTheBest? What's FindTheBest all about?

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JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Let's start, and why don't you tell us what you are looking for in a pitch? If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies. Although this option was not attractive to the management team, it was a viable alternative circa 2005 and it would have allowed our institutional investors to liquidate their investments. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Doing nothing became our BATNA.

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JULY 7, 2010

According to Guitarist Glenn Frey, “We never broke up, we just took a 14-year vacation.&#. Eventually one of the band mates swallows their pride, picks up the phone and proposes a reunion tour. A similar phenomenon occurs in the startup world, without the drugs or drama endemic in the music industry. CEO, CFO, etc.).

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MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in. Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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