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JANUARY 4, 2013

We hope to be on every single platform, over time. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. Our goal and promise to consumers is to let them stay connected to all of the video they care about online, regardless of where it comes from, on any device.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. 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. What is Kixer? What''s your background?

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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. How did the network come about? We''re now the longest daily web show, ever.

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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. Starting with that vision, we acquired a company that had built the base platform, based in Guatemala. It was a question of build versus buy.

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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. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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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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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. I started a company back in 2005, a very traditional kind of startup, where we had found angel money and had gone through traditional funding. Tim O'Neal: This is my second experience in a startup.

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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. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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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. Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs.

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JULY 18, 2013

Those might be credit products, better alternatives to payday loans, risk management tools, processing platforms for new kinds of payments, and currency that might decrease friction and interchange fees. 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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APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. The people who started with us in 2005 and 2006 are still with us, and there is a lot of longevity in the company, and familiarity and teamwork that comes from working together for so long that you don't find at other companies.

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JULY 27, 2015

I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer? You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch 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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. So it's been a year.

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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. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data.

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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. As spam started to evolve in the late 90's and in the 2000's, it was just a very light problem.

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APRIL 25, 2011

So, we really built some innovation into our platform, to make it ubiquitous in the mobile space. Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. We knew messaging was early in the hockey stick here in the U.S., That was our basis for doing something in text messaging.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

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. That ended up becoming a deal matching platform, which would work for local businesses.

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MARCH 29, 2010

While we participate in a NYSE-like platforms, we utilize those real time auctions to better buy media, and buy media in a better way than what we've done in the past. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005.

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JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. We also had to secure the music rights and get musicians on the platform, so that they could benefit from the use of their music. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram?

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JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. We also had to secure the music rights and get musicians on the platform, so that they could benefit from the use of their music. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram?

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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. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus. What do you mean by infrastructure?

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MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence. OTHER DEALS. Primarily targets SMBs.

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JULY 6, 2009

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. Mobile apps are really cool, but it makes sense with our real time media and information to drive most of the heavy usage to our mobile platform.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent. It's a Twitter-like experience, and harnesses the couch effect--as if you're sitting around the couch with your friends, having a few beers, and calling plays and trading smack talk.

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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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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. There's on-demand platforms for accounting, customer relationships, and things like that, and the options in each of those categories have let us have low monthly costs.

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MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Are you going to do all of this?

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