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

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. Sean was the first guy to do it, and brough tit to market by publishing that information to paying users via phone systems.

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Web Content Mobile Sites 140

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. However, they had a lack of technology vendors in the cloud.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

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 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

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.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. Tesla is not.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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.

Southern California 100

Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

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.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 For example, I was looking for web hosting, and kept on running into affiliate shills--which is a disease on the internet--where there are people who purport to talk about the best products, but are really pushing whoever is paying them the most money.

Startup 210

Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux).

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Design Web Design Google Develop 65

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

And 450 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold since its launch in 2009, making it the fastest-growing operating system ever, and showing us that Windows is going to keep controlling the OS market share. Bing Powered search now controls 30% of the search engine market share. 3. It’s not just about Windows.

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Writing Training Email .Net 88

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Gregg Spiridellis: We've got four products in the market right now. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. What's the big vision for StoryBots?

Content 224

Content Startup Screening Education 224

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

To try to change that, two entrepreneurs, Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, are launching a new effort called Upstart LA (www.upstart.la), which aims to bring that venture accelerator model into this market. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc.,

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies. What is Aggregage?

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

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. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Gregg Spiradellis: We've got four products in the market right now. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Gregg Spiradellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. What's the big vision for StoryBots?

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. I met him a year ago, and we got chatting about the market, what's going on, and his own interest in getting back involved in investing. I don't think that is going to go away just because the market is down.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. ResumeBucket hits the market with the idea and premise that simpler is better. What's the idea behind the site?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. The underpinning of the technology is much more complex than that, of course, and we've been building this for awhile.

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Patents CarsDirect Sites Pomona 179

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. They looked nervous at having to speak with me impromptu and without the benefit of financial figures to scoff at, product pitches that they’ve seen 100 times and a market sizing to unpick. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I wasn’t feeling it. But these two certainly were.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. LowerMyBills, Inc.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

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). Well, that technology came from an L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." government. The ACI concentrates on two things: One, education, and two, doubling basic research in the physical sciences.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 No Dave S. =

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking?

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Screening Screencast Web Yammer 266

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Course Startup Framework Marketing 280