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JANUARY 31, 2013

The Los Angeles-based company said that it "did everything we could to keep this dream alive", but was "sad to have to say goodbye." Stickam had been founded in 2005. Last August, the company had announced a VIP membership program, which charged users $39.99 Reason for the shutdown was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2017

The company had counted Microsoft, University of Mississippi, Liverpool Football Club and Paul Hastings Law Firm as major customers. The acquisition comes just over 12 years after Xirrus was founded by Dirk Gates in 2005.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Tekelec had started in Southern California back in 1978, and had been a onetime technology darling when it had its IPO back in 1986. The firm, which was then based in Calabasas, moved out of the area in 2005, taking with it hundreds of jobs. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sonos started shipping its systems in 2005. The company develops wireless music systems which can stream audio from a PC or the Internet to multiple rooms, and can easily be controlled using a controller, iPhone, iPad, or Android.

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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JULY 30, 2012

As part of those moves, Yahoo is also reportedly looking to start back into the acquisitions game, which once upon a time helped power the rise and success of Southern California's startup scene. In the article, AllThingsD said that Ross Levinsohn, who had been serving as interim CEO at Yahoo, is apparently planning to leave the company.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

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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. And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. Lets start with the basics.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Most of the venture capital firms covered in TechCrunch and other tech publications compete for a spot on the cap table of the hottest Bay Area, New York or Los Angeles companies of the moment. Few seek out companies in Indianapolis, Milwaukee or Tampa. Revolution Ventures managing partner Tige Savage.

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APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. 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. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

The company said it is in the midst of selecting a headquarters locations in Ventura County and hiring. Gross started and headed up FastClick, taking it to an IPO in 2005, and eventually selling the firm to ValueClick. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

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JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. That little online book company. Enter Amazon.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

In his most memorable book, “ The Art of The Start 2.0 ,” Guy Kawasaki exhorts entrepreneurs to focus on making meaning, not money. He has said many times that if your vision for your company is to grow it just to flip it to a large company or to take it public and cash out, "you're doomed.” Do it for meaning.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. in 2005 for $680M. We'll be featuring contributions all through the holiday season.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. Howard Marks: We started our business in April. When did you decide to start Gamzee? What is Gamzee all about?

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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.

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JUNE 13, 2019

We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. I had always kind of been a computer nerd, and had been starting companies in high school. We then launched Pluto TV.

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JANUARY 12, 2019

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. Minutes later, offers started arriving in my inbox. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general.

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JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. It’s no surprise that I got a bit fawked on my first company. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. Drag along rights?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. Theyre like companies in the US like and ATT or Verizon, or an Orange in France, or others in Poland and Russia and other countries. Whats the relationship of this company to Gary Winnick?

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JANUARY 24, 2016

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. I had started keeping a personal blog (on Blogger) about family life just for my friends and family and I realized how hard it was to get even my closest family members to remember to visit there to see updated photos of the kids.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Dolgoff has a fascinating background--he invented the first LCD projector, he helped inspire Star Trek's Holodeck, and he also is a serial entrepreneur who took his company public on the NASDAQ in the 90's. In 1964, I started working on holography, and was one of the first in the world to work on that. I was doing that until 1995.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about? What's your background?

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

What's wonderful about this new fund, is we literally started in April of 2017. There's a lot of money out there, but if you have a good company, finding money shouldn't be the hardest thing. Instead, we have a turnkey company we work with for our portfolio companies, which we have brought in and have known for about 20 years.

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APRIL 13, 2011

How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 was starting. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The company started here in 2002, and we were basically an agency. As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. Minutes later, offers started arriving in my inbox. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. Minutes later, offers started arriving in my inbox. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

United Sample is the latest business effort of goZing.com founders Matthew Dusig and Gregg Lavin; Dusig and Lavin successfully started and sold goZing to Greenfield Online in 2005.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Winston Damarillo: We actually started Morphlabs in Asia, because we decided to try something new and initiate things in Japan and the Phillippines. Winston, nice speaking with you again.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. But in the past few years I’ve entered what is called the “sandwich years&# in which you start helping to take care of your parents as well as young kids. This company is sending what looks like an $8.25 Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. Tell us the story behind how the firm started? We raised $2.1M It's to build a better product.

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led. So I got started in the tech and internet world very early stage.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And over the past 5 years I have done more deals with and worked with more companies counseled by Dave than any other firm. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He knows every startup & VC in town.”

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APRIL 23, 2013

I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. How did online figure into your plans when you started The Young Turks? Back in 2005, we even had Sirius Satellite Radio tell us they''d pay us a quarter million to not do online video.

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