socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp. Among other major 2011 exits listed were Riot Games ($400 million) and HauteLook ($270 million).

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Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Report Riot Games 187

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. 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. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution. in 2005 for $680M.

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Southern California News Platform Class 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies. He earned a B.A.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Invest they have. The whole movement to seed funds / early investments happened for a reason. He was a mensch. And I know that Mike agreed.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

We spoke with Arjan Shutte about the investment firm and its interest in financial startups, and why it moved from New York. Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. Tell us about Core Capital and the types of investments you make?

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Capital Startup Los Angeles Invest 183

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. What do you invest in? We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California.

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. However, as we have seen in the last few years, traditional media has been failing. Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. You could just outspend. Here’s why.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

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. I learned a lot about the media business and transactions there. So I took a massive pay cut to take a job at Evolve Media to work on a combination of law and business stuff for them.

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Mobile Web Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 124

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. million of a new financing round intended to bring in $62.8

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Technology Venture Capital Beverly Hills Funding 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

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. I was introduced to the founders.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

He left to start his own firm, which only invests in data-based companies, who are all focused on accumulation and use of data. The two we're disclosing right now are Jerry Neumann, who ran mergers and acquisition for Omnicom, and Josh Styleman, CEO of Reprise Media, which was sold to IPG and became their search product.

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Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

socalTECH

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. That is the big day for Payoff.com, and we will be going to push out on every front to get media exposure and attention to what we're doing. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals. Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002.

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Sherman Oaks Riot Games Tips Redpoint 44

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Every region needs its local media & events. No Dave S. =

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

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. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

<Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media.

Startup 303

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Writing 303

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Meet in person.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. Short answer: no.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. If I've seen companies that are similar to them--or half a dozen companies--even if the area might be big and exciting, it will be hard to make an investment. We're really excited about 2009.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. And there is relationship between debating and blogging.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Both Sides of the Table

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. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210