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JUNE 28, 2011

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. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the provider of phone-based authentication and verification services which is headed by former FrontBridge and Vantage Media CEO Steve Jillings, said today that it has scored a U.S. The patent was originally filed in October of 2005. According to the firm, it was awarded U.S. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Patrick Quigley: People often have the wrong perception of Vantage Media. However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. patrick quigley vantage media leads growth marketplace advertising' more) READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Split Rock was an investor in LowerMyBills, which Coffin sold to Experian in 2005 for $380M. Coffin also has invested as an angel in Billshrink, Buscape, CyberRain, Demand Media, Docstoc, Hautelook, Impact Radius, Inadco, Machinima, Mahalo, Rubicon Project, and 2tor.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Cheers actually has a pair of iPhone apps -- one, Cheers, is aimed at sharing "good in your life", the other, "Gripe" calls itself the "Better Business Bureau for the age of social media". Scripps for $525M in 2005. Bizrate eventually became Shopzilla, and was acquired by E.W. Cheers launched last February. READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Wisk has been at United Online since 2005, and was EVP and Chief Marketing Officer. Taragan has previously served at Nielsen Media Research, and Wisk at Tivo, Herbalife, and Nokia. 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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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. Read more: MediaWeek.

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JULY 30, 2012

Levinsohn was responsible for one of Southern California's biggest exit successes -- the acquisition of MySpace by News Corporation in 2005 for $480M, when he headed up News Corporation's interactive media division. Levinsohn has not said what he'll do next after his stint as Yahoo CEO. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

And I’m enjoying being part of the two-way conversation again as I was from 2005-2007. Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. I’m enjoying the creative process of getting my own personal thoughts down in writing. Thank you, Twitter.

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JULY 26, 2016

El Segundo-based digital marketing company Wpromote said on Tuesday that it has acquired online marketing agency Standing Dog , which provides search engine marketing, SEO, social media and paid media services. Standing Dog was founded in 2005, and was based in Texas. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Shah was previously CEO of Ziff Davis, LLC, the digital media arm of j2 Global, and had been there for five years. Zucker became President at j2 in 2005, and has been CEO for the last eight years. Zucker will join a new venture cpaital firm, OCV, which is being organized by j2's Chairman of the Board, Richard Ressler. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. When I first arrived in LA my good friend Matt Pillar (a long-term veteran of tech, media & VC) who had been in LA for some time told me, “in LA there’s none better than David.” He knows every startup & VC in town.”

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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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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.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. as well as what drove the success of the campaigns. How did the Introduction of YouTube affect your business?

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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.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

1) Give Your Customers (And The Media) What They Want. Richard often utilizes humor when speaking with the media, as he knows that a humorous sound bite is more likely to be published and more readily remembered. He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice.

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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.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. My cofounder Atish ran Black Sheep College Media, which was like The Onion for college. We also rank and rate students after they've completed a mission, which helps them build a reputation, as well. Where'd you get the idea for the company?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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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. We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. What do you mean by infrastructure?

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MARCH 29, 2010

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. Jeff Green: I started my career in online advertising, as a media buyer. We've also got a huge list of strategic investors also participating.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. Utah’s Salt Lake City and Provo have garnered a reputation for churning out great tech businesses, earning it the nickname Silicon Slopes.

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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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MAY 15, 2010

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. OTHER DEALS. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos.

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JULY 18, 2013

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. Arjan Schutte: I''ve been investing in this space since 2005, and consistently, fifty percent of our dealflow is from California.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Created in 2005, Stickam is the pioneer of the live interactive video streaming space. In the final installment of the never before seen HQ.0 0 episodes we present local Southern California company Stickam.com. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. The second ones are media brand and companies and we have several of those brands on our platform. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. What is uCast?

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. There have also been many high profile financings of infrastructure players to support these gaming platforms including Offerpal Media, SuperRewards (bought by AdKnowledge), Gambit and more recently LA-based Sometrics. The iPhone success is more profound than just iPhone apps.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. These are mostly people who joined in college or their early 20s and FB sort of became like LinkedIn – the place where you were connected to too many people you didn’t really know. I was always more the latter.

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