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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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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 4, 2013

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M. Does this sound familiar? Well, could be.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Scripps said that Shopzilla's "mission and future trajectory diverge" from the firm's focus on lifestyle media brands. Scripps bought Shopzilla in 2005 for $525M. The firms said that Symphony Technology Group would continue and accelerate the growth of Shopzilla. READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

(Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. Yes, with a “B.” There is no more Latino-only market.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation way back in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. Helping others achieve their goals.

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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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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Prior to starting Crosscut, Brett was a serial entrepreneur who built, operated, and sold a number of internet media companies including Myspace.com. In 1998, Brett co-founded Intermix Media, launching several online businesses and eventually selling the company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in 2005 for $680M.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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JULY 27, 2015

I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. We've been interacting more with media teams, who are much more analytical, and have a math-based way of thinking, versus the creative side, where things are much more subjective. Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

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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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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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Satisfaction Entrepreneur Ideas Patents 108

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2015

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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Entrepreneur Satisfaction Ideas Patents 111

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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

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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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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. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. There is a much better technique.

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