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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Not Google.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Ethan in 2005. For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it.

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

Tech Zulu Event

You can post TechZulu content directly to Facebook, Twitter, email or IM. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. (

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

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. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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Interview with Cramster.com

socalTECH

After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business. We received an unexpected email from him that said -- "Please come talk with me." So, he called our office, then called me and sent us an email. Since then, it's grown into a big study community.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Google acquired that and incorporated it.

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

socalTECH

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. The first couple of weeks, we were almost like a startup--getting things set up, infrastructure, email, and also doing lots of networking to get back in touch with the guys I've worked with in Southern California.