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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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

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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Funding Santa Barbara Commerce Acquisition 153

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

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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Web Westlake Village Advertising Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Generation X (Generation Me) – 64.9 Technology won’t solve this one.

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Demand Startup Course Summary 103

Xconomy

MARCH 16, 2017

Startups that develop advanced military technologies often never come to light. But San Diego’s Daylight Solutions has managed to openly thrive in two very different markets. The company has advanced its specialized solid-state laser technology for customers in both the defense industry and commercial sector.

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High Tech Startup Customer Custom 55

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. What is your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year?

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Santa Barbara Cloud Computing San Diego Southern California 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year?

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The company also said that it is planning to double its investment in its technology platform. Lavin and Dusig's last firm, goZing, was successfully sold to Greenfield Online in 2005. uSamp is venture backed by DFJ Frontier, Greycroft Partners, OpenView Venture Partners, and Webtigo.

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Report Sample Encino Research 140

socalTECH

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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Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What does Confident Technologies do? The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology.

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Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

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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Company Companies Course IP 193

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

The EELV program is an effort to replace the USAF's legacy rockets with newer technology. 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 lawsuit was eventually dismissed. READ MORE>>.

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SpaceX Hawthorne Report Customer 100

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001. Well, it had to happen.

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Startup Examples Metrics Marketing 120

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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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. At the time, when we were an agency, it was quite a crowded market. Who we are today, is an ad technology company. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 Technology won’t solve this one.

Demand 83

Demand Startup Course Summary 83

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Technology is transforming every aspect of business, and our technology is one piece of the puzzle that helps them get there. There are something like 110 different ways for someone to make money, whether that might be investing in the stock market or real estate, building a Silicon Valley company and flipping it.

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Diamond Bar Customer Custom Organization 169

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based United Sample, which operates online survey and sampling services for the market research industry, announced today that it has raised $3M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included prior investor DFJ Frontier. READ MORE>>.

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Sample Venture Capital Sales Research 113

Tech.Co

JUNE 7, 2017

Moving to a physical venue signals exciting times for a technology startup. With this expectation, you must imagine how hard a marketer or programmer should concentrate to combat distractions. In a 2005 study , researchers examined the effects of things like flexible use of workspace on job productivity and team cohesion.

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Startup Study Research Design 119

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Felipe grew up in Brazil. But I have some.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. You can get feedback almost instantaneously and the cost of iteration is as close to zero as technology will allow us to get.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree.

Invest 152

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. In 1991, Marks and a partner transformed ailing video game giant Activision into a $14B market cap video game industry leader.

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Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. What's unique about us, is that there haven't been modern, commercial technology which companies could subscribe to an implement in their corporate environment.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available. Inside that solution, we have technologies like artificial intelligence, data analytics ,and security for streaming machines, and so forth. By doing that, we are a turnkey business-in-a box. I have a Ph.D.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Todd is now Chief Operating Officer of Marmol Radziner (www.marmol-radziner.com), an architecture and construction company, which recently installed a eco-friendly mobile home park project in Santa Monica which was focused on applying clean and eco-friendly technologies to the pre-fab building market. It's a truly interesting product.

Santa Monica 190

Santa Monica Venture Capital Anthem Design 190

socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We talked with Richard about NordicEye's $30M fund, its interests in Los Angeles, and why a Nordic venture capital firm has its eyes on Southern California's technology startups. You need smart money which helps you poen up markets, so you can achieve exponential growth in real time. We also want to see some market penetration.

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Southern California Startup Venture Capital Invest 133

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology. WE're providing a really affordable replacement for the standard banner, and which is counter to what the market is doing right now. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. So, we're focused on applying technology more efficiently and creating more value for investors. He went into law, then into real estate law, and then into technology.

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Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. Lots of people think of Los Angeles as a media center, for obvious reasons--but, we knew before we came, there is also a lot of exciting, financial technology going on here. How did you end up in Los Angeles?

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Capital Startup Los Angeles Invest 183

socalTECH

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. That gave me the general landscape view and understanding of online technology businesses. Instead, we were going linear, and free, so we just took the market.

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Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 Technology won’t solve this one.

Startup 57

Startup Demand Course Summary 57

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. ECO-TECH – Earth-friendly technology.

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Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220