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JANUARY 14, 2016

MindTouch, which was founded by Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson back in 2005, said the funding will go to increase its integration with software such as Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, and grow its marketing, business development, sales, and engineering teams. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. It reminded me of the way that the ringtone companies marketed themselves 10 years ago and the articles about lower-income mothers having to foot the bill for hundreds of dollars for their kids. Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento. It absolutely disgusts me.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Modesat was founded in 2005 in Estonia, and develops backhaul modem solutions for microwave, E-band and NLOS (non-line of sight) markets. Modesat , a developer of wireless backhaul communications chips and products, which has its North American operations headquartered in San Diego, has been acquired by Xilinx , the two said today.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M. Those numbers--and the story--seems to be almost an exact repeat of the story behind MySpace , which--also in 2005, in July--was acquired by News Corp. That deals loooks to be worth around $100M, based on reports from the WSJ. in a $580M deal. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2010

According to Conatus Pharmaceuticals, it is focused on developing drugs for the liver disease and oncology market, and is led by the former management of Idun Pharmaceuticals. Idun has been acquired by Pfizer in 2005. who also was CEO of Idun Pharmaceuticals when it was acquired by Pfizer in 2005. Mento, Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Revolution, the parent company of Revolution Ventures , the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Revolution Growth , has evangelized its approach to backing companies in emerging markets, helping promote entrepreneurialism in geographies often overlooked by Silicon Valley’s Patagonia vest-wearing venture capitalists.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The company said the funds will go to bring its first products to market and to accelerate commercialization of its technology. The new funding round comes over twelve years since its initial Series A funding, back in 2005, when the company spun out its technology from UC Irvine.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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APRIL 22, 2013

The investment is the first, outside investment in the company since it was founded in 2005. According to the company, all four of its founders will remain with the company, with CEO Dan Engel transitioning to Senior Vice President of Marketing and member of the company''s board. Size of the funding round was not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

ValueClick said the move is part of a strategy to grow its core online marketing services and technology. ValueClick acquired its Web Clients business in 2005 for approximately $141M. According to the firm, the deal was worth $45M, in the form of a five year note with an interest rate of five percent. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2011

The new Google service is the second, major service to enter MP3Tunes market in recent months; just a couple of months ago, Amazon.com launched its own, competing music locker service, Amazon Cloud Drive, offering similar functionality. com--has been around since 2005. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Irvine-based WebVisible announced today that it has acquired Pasadena-based Adapt Technologies, a developer of search engine marketing tools. WebVisible is a provider of local online advertising services, which helps small and midsize businesses place search engine marketing. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Lavin and Dusig's last firm, goZing, was successfully sold to Greenfield Online in 2005. uSamp said it has now completed 10,000 projects for global market research companies, and has 145 employees across Los Angeles, Dallas, Trumbull, CT, London, and New Delhi. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 16, 2017

But San Diego’s Daylight Solutions has managed to openly thrive in two very different markets. Paul Larson, who co-founded Daylight Solutions with CEO Tim Day in 2005, said they followed a path that was very different from a classic defense contractor, but not too different from a typical high-tech startup.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year? John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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AUGUST 13, 2009

500 listing was that Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a venture backed provider of local online marketing services, hit $147M in revenues in 2008, up significantly from $4.4M in revenues of 2005. One of the revelations in yesterday's Inc. The revelation is the first public disclosure how much the firm's business has grown recently.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

SpaceX had been cut out of the EELV program in 2005, when the United Launch Alliance--a joint effort of Boeing and Lockheed Martin--won the EELV program. That win resulted in an anti-trust lawsuit from SpaceX in 2005, alleging Boeing and Lockheed Martin had prevented the firm from entering the government launch market.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. Rob Freelen is Silicon Valley Bank's Los Angeles Market Manager, where he leads a team of bankers working with a thriving team of early-stage technology companies. What's the biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? He earned a B.A.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Wisk has been at United Online since 2005, and was EVP and Chief Marketing Officer. Wisk as President of the firm's online loyalty business, MyPoints.com. Taragan has been at United Online since 2000, and was EVP Operations. The firm said the moves were part of a streamlining of its management structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. In this short 90-second clip Jeff discusses “Investor / Market Fit” How VCs Think About Funding.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Now in its 12th year, the ACG Los Angeles Business Conference is the premier West Coast event focusing on corporate finance and MandA activity for middle-market companies. More than 1,500 corporate executives and professionals from across the country and abroad are expected to attend.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Now in its 12th year, the ACG Los Angeles Business Conference is the premier West Coast event focusing on corporate finance and MandA activity for middle-market companies. More than 1,500 corporate executives and professionals from across the country and abroad are expected to attend.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Generation X (Generation Me) – 64.9 Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 82.9 Technology won’t solve this one.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives. Cool stuff for circa 2005, unless you were an idiot working for a cellular carrier. The recent purchase of Skype by Microsoft for $8.5 Their utter stupidity is a bit disheartening, but highly instructional.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net , the operator of Internet marketing and domain monetization services, said today with subsidiary SnapNames that they have resolved two lawsuits filed as a result of a former employee's improper bidding activity. Brady--until the scandal--was VP of Engineering at SnapNames. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And we wanted a head of global marketing. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets. With a benefit to both consumers and merchants.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

The company also said that the firm's new local cable TV advertising marketplace--launched in June--also added to the results, with that market accounting for 20 percent of its business. Bid4Spots is headed by Dave Newmark, who launched the firm in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In 2005, Alan McCann created a graphic representation of the Method: Note that Allan changed the title of the risks from technology-execution-market-production to investment-marketing-execution-development. As for listed elements, a medical device startup might replace “marketing risk” with “FDA approvals risk.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. He was a mensch. Invest they have.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. The folks over at Blip.tv

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. But I digress.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games. There is a tremendous opportunity to be early in this market, to be first in the mobile social games market.

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