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Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Dynamic entrepreneurs attract talent and outside capital, both vital resources to every startup. in 2005 for $680M. After leaving News Corp.,

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

The fund has been about two years of development with Peter Warnoe, who is a serial entrepreneur who is very famous in the Nordics. Lars Tvede has written fifteen books on entrepreneurship, is a serial entrepreneur himself, and has been uber-succcessful. What things are you looking at when you consider a company or entrepreneur?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients.

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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. Tags: morphlabs winston damarillo morph labs open source startup entrepreneur. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. Winston, nice speaking with you again.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. Alex Kazerani: We did our first company in the 90's, and sold it in 1999.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem. How do you recommend that entrepreneurs approach you?

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. 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.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. You mentioned you had been on the investment side of things -- what pushed you to become an entrepreneur? But, at the en dof the day, the value is created at the entrepreneur level.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. entrepreneur scopely interview publishing native advertising user mobile kixer bonnici keith startup' Keith Bonnici: Both myself and my two other cofounders have seven years in publishing. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2019

When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. One, called Ciplex, I started in 1999, when everyone was asking for a website. So are you now looking at new projects and investments?

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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). They started in January of 2005. Can you tell our readers the story behind how you found the company?

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JULY 18, 2013

Arjan Schutte: I''ve been investing in this space since 2005, and consistently, fifty percent of our dealflow is from California. Arjan Schutte: We invest in successful serial entrepreneurs, more often than not. Neither of those companies are in our portfolio, but those are definitely the kinds of businesses we''re interested in.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Tags: kevin oconnor findthebest doubleclick startup founder entrepreneur comparison shopping engine search advertising. We've got 400 comparison applications now, and are hoping to take that up to 800 to 1000 comparison apps. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com). Quinn, thanks for the time.

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JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005.

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JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005.

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The people who started with us in 2005 and 2006 are still with us, and there is a lot of longevity in the company, and familiarity and teamwork that comes from working together for so long that you don't find at other companies. But I think we attract people who are not motivated by getting rich quick on stock options.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. Tags: videogame games media social neopets hydra meteor entrepreneur interview brandenberg. Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2010

I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005. Tags: entrepreneur startup microsoft advertising internet adecn capital venture desk trade thetradedesk green jeff. How did you decide you wanted to start a new company? READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. What we are looking for, first and foremost, is the right entrepreneur. We often hear from entrepreneurs who say--I'll hire a great team, as soon as I get funded.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Whats your background, and how did you get into this? Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. I had built an audio company before. I have a Ph.D. in signal processing, and I became CEO of DivX.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Within that have own custom cabinet shop, our own metal shop, make our own furniture, and as an offshoot of that, started exploring developing modular, prefab homes in 2005. That's developed into new business in and of it self.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. Tags: interview advertising media networking social referral business small facebook startup entrepreneur favrav.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. I worked on several products, and launched many things.

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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. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent. Tags: sports fans jose startup entrepreneur interview game prediction fantasy daveiga klicksports. In 2006, I decided, after Kent bugged me a lot, that it was time to try and make it a business. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. For California investments in general, the funding has kicked up pretty remarkaably. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. We don''t worry about that anymore. Now we have it.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Entrepreneurs here really enjoy helping each other. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. Kalvin, my co-foudner, and I, started at Dialpad, an early Internet telephony company that was a precursor to Skype.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. Tags: entrepreneur startup kids children video videogame game content world virtual myminipeeps media masher gunther sherry. We allow them to participate, and help shape the community, as they play the games and quests.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In 2005, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and I took the ideas we had been working on and started--along with J.D. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. We successfully built up that firm, and in late 2006 we sold it to Tandberg Television.

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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. I built a piece of software to help find solutions and examples, categorized by textbook, and after I graduated in 2001, I figured it could help other students. Since then, it's grown into a big study community.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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