Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. You have said outloud anyone can send you an email, is that fair?
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. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005.
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socalTECH
OCTOBER 8, 2008
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." He told us that he felt like homework help is the next big opportunity, and went to Yahoo Answers.
socalTECH
MAY 27, 2009
David founded Geocities back in 1994, took it public in 1998, and in 1999 Yahoo bought the firm as a public company. He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.
socalTECH
MARCH 29, 2010
I bought both search and display, email, and frankly every other kind of online media--and I felt that there must be a better way to make that work, more along the model of a financial market. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005.
socalTECH
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. I'm always amazed in search engine alerts in my email, about who is talking about or using Jetty. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.
SoCal Delicious
MARCH 1, 2010
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). LinkedIn Sign in or register to comment.
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