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APRIL 23, 2013

I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. Back in 2005, we even had Sirius Satellite Radio tell us they''d pay us a quarter million to not do online video. The audience is your best friend in production, and helps you figure out which way to go.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. The folks over at Blip.tv

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. Winston Damarillo: When we launched the product, it was just about when Amazon started.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher Scherzay: FavRav is basically a platform that allows small businesses to get a footprint with customers, using the referral network of social media. I've actually gone to four startup, so far, taking them from prototype to production, when they are able to sell the company or have it run on its own. How far is the product?

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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. I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. How did the shift come from consulting services to a product? We just launched our new product last year, and we're competing with product like Adobe's Marketing Cloud and SiteCore.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. There's a similar installer for Linux, and going beyond the workstations and into the data center, we use Ansible to push the products out to those endpoints. What's your background?

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. I worked on several products, and launched many things. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Twitter is a great product and a great company. Some companies have to go first. Others will follow. But many of us have been there. It’s not fun. But it’s necessary.

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JULY 18, 2013

Within that, we''re looking at things like consumer financial products, payment products, better ways to cash checks, ways to pay a bill. Arjan Schutte: I''ve been investing in this space since 2005, and consistently, fifty percent of our dealflow is from California. When did you realize there were companies like this here?

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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. In addition, we use this platform during our other shows to provide our audience a way to view what Jeremy is displaying on his monitor while during a typical radio broadcast. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. While iPhone is really still the only true game in town for mobile applications investors can see in the near future a world in which multiple mobile applications platforms will likely exist – perhaps with Blackberry, Palm Pre and Google’s Android operating system gather more momentum.

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JULY 27, 2015

Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. We started working in stealth mode on the product, and built the product and got it working. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer?

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JANUARY 3, 2011

Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005. What lots of people do instead, is they use the spam button or delete button in their email platform. We're as much as a police officer as much as a productivity service. It's to build a better product.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. Value Prop Twitter Style : Central Desktop is: “a cloud-based social collaboration platform for businesses.&#. Article first published as Isaac Garcia – Taking Down Microsoft on Technorati.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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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. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. I think it is essential to give the user a more personalized experience.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. It looks like you've got a number of carriers distributing your product, how are your applications distributed? We're really focused on enterprise sales and carrier grade products. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead.

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APRIL 25, 2011

We literally had 5,000 to 10,000 SKUs to get our products out worldwide. So, we really built some innovation into our platform, to make it ubiquitous in the mobile space. We're really competing with the product that came with your phone. We knew messaging was early in the hockey stick here in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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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. We are focused on well developed, new mechanics in gaming, and providing users the ability to play on numerous platforms, not just Facebook itself, and provide an innovative experience. Why the interest in that area?

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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. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. We're doing more than just managing your cash flow, we've also got social elements to our product, some game mechanics involved, things I think will make it something people will actually want to do.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005.

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JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. One, is you need to simplify the product. official acquired Flipagram LLC in October 15, and from then on we were chasing the product I had described, turning into the product you see today. They were Flipagram LLC. Cheerful Inc.

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JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. One, is you need to simplify the product. official acquired Flipagram LLC in October 15, and from then on we were chasing the product I had described, turning into the product you see today. They were Flipagram LLC. Cheerful Inc.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

With our product, what they see on our site is seen across many different places. That was back in 2005, and the premise was that there were lots of sites to help job seekers and employers connect, but they didn't work for a segment of the population, such as dishwashers, busboys, and others who did not have access to the Internet.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients. We hope that the platform will allow entrepreneurs a streamlined transition to an accelerator program, financing or to otherwise launch their businesses.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Free product. I wasn’t feeling it. Folksonomy.

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JULY 6, 2009

Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. in 2004, we purchased Buoyweather.com, moved it into our setup, weather department, and marketing department, and in 2005, we added much more multimedia news and entertainment to Surfline. It sounds like mobile is a growth area for you?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. When we got funded, we worked harder to put together a product which was longer lasting, and not just a beta attempt like what we had done before. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent.

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Patents CarsDirect Sites Ideas 179

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 previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits.

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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. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. But, the platforms themselves exist, which makes the job quite a bit less risk in terms of the development process on the technology side. We allow them to participate, and help shape the community, as they play the games and quests.

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