socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Connexity said that it is integrating social networking and recommendation engine technology into its advertising technology. Gross started and headed up FastClick, taking it to an IPO in 2005, and eventually selling the firm to ValueClick. The funding round came from Persistence Partners, which is also headed by Gross.

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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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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Irvine-based Tech Coast Venture Network has named Ciaran Foley Chairman of the Board, replacing Bart Greenberg, who has been Chairman since August. McDonald is Executive Vice President for Alvaka Networks, Inc. He is the founding Chairman of the Sheriff/Coroner’s Community Technology Advisory Council.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Nickelodeon under Herb was the top-rated network in cable for 10 straight years. He was also Vice Chairman of MTV Networks and oversaw adult brands Spike and TV Land. Beatriz has been a tireless public advocate of the role of Latinx leaders in startups, technology y media. Latino purchasing power will reach $1.7

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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. How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers.

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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. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. Here’s a sample of what you might hear on the show: TECH NEWS – Top technology headlines.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” The iPhone success is more profound than just iPhone apps. Seems an obvious fit.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

Access control, as a whole, hasn't evolved over forty years, and we're bringing technology like the mobile cloud and software in the cloud, to create really disruptive innovation to how businesses respond to customers. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We then started Edgecast in 2006.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

All we have to do is look at the data, though: Since its launch in 2005, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has sold 66 million copies worldwide. Xbox LIVE has nearly 40 million members, making it the biggest social entertainment network in the living room. That makes it the first in console sales.

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socalTECH

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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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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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. First off, tell us about your network of sites? So there's a significant amount of science and technology involved now in the operation? Jonno Wells: It's always being modified and tweaked, from a technology standpoint.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We've built some social curation tools, which use social signaling--tweets, clickthroughs, or comments on Facebook--and take what the network is deciding are important stories, and highlighting those and moving them further up on our site, so that the important stories on any given day are being highlighted. at that time.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Instead, what we're doing is creating a network of artists, all over the world, creating content. It's a way for us to take advantage of technology and the Internet, not just for distributing our content to our audience, but also for workflow and production systems, to enable us to engage the best talent all over the world.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. The region has produced 95 exits over $100 million (13%), 50 over $250 million (7%) and 23 over $500 million (3%) during the period analyzed. IPO in 1996).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. CEO Network – CEO’s from the portfolio companies are introduced to each other. and Half.com. and Half.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If a VC fund you’re talking to raised a fund in 2005 or early and hasn’t yet raised a new fund they certainly will be thinking about it and trying to figure out how and when to raise a fund. We also took one of our large portfolio companies, Ulta, public.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Search is just another web application.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. When you achieve economies-of-scale advantages it doesn’t benefit you to help newer companies draft off of your infrastructure to rise and compete against you.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Instead, what we're doing is creating a network of artists, all over the world, creating content. It's a way for us to take advantage of technology and the Internet, not just for distributing our content to our audience, but also for workflow and production systems, to enable us to engage the best talent all over the world.

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Content Startup Screening Education 138

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. I believe it’s truly morning in the technology sector. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 It takes both to build a community.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

We work with multiple ad networks, and take over the ad unit when people are browsing on their phone, working with mobile apps. We were able to meet the who's who of Internet technology. Those folks are constantly looking for deals, which might not be the customers you want to attract. So, I left, and started my own company.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Cash will continue to become less relevant in 10 years as electronic & mobile commerce continue to proliferate and new technologies like NFC drive change. I’m long on payment technologies. tl;dr summary. VCs were very active in this period. And Social.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. You can post TechZulu content directly to Facebook, Twitter, email or IM.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005. We spent a few years creating that, figuring out that because there were 350 ad networks, we'd either need to compete with all of them with cutting edge technology, or we could create an online advertising exchange, because no one else had.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 1, 2008

“California is the birthplace of the information technology revolution and the home of the companies that are creating the future course of our information rich society. Not true so much anymore, but from a standpoint of innovation in the technology sector, California continues to flourish. While the growth of Web 2.0

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