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DECEMBER 26, 2016

This contribution is from John Greathouse , a longtime venture capitalist and also a professor at UC Santa Barbara, who was instrumental in Computer Motion's initial public offering and the sale of GoToMeeting to Citrix. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Dennington was most recently Director, Open Source Sales at Progress Software and IONA Technologies, and was also a member of the founding team at Simula Labs, LogicBlaze, and Gluecode. Damarillo sold Gluecode in 2005 to IBM. Dennington has been heading MaestroDev since at least September, when the firm emerged from stealth mode.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2012

Gross said the funding will go towards sales and technology. Gross is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully founded online advertising firm Fastclick, which he took IPO in 2005, and later sold to ValueClick for over $200M. As part of the funding, John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners has joined the company's board.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Garn joined Quest in 1998 and has served as president since February 2005. Before that, the company noted, he was vice president of worldwide sales. -based company said, also joins the board as a director and will retain his preexisting role as president.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Irvine-based Broadcom is continuing its patent skirmish with San Diego-based Qualcomm, saying Tuesday that Qualcomm has been held in contempt of an injunction entered into last December, covering the use, sale, and import of certain EV-DO chips. in May 2005. Broadcom sued Qualcomm over U.S. 5,657,317 in the U.S.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2009

United Sample is the latest business effort of goZing.com founders Matthew Dusig and Gregg Lavin; Dusig and Lavin successfully started and sold goZing to Greenfield Online in 2005. Dusig believes that one of the main reasons the firm was able to get funded today was revenue. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2008

EI Solutions was acquired by Energy Innovations in February of 2005, and was formerly known as Prevalent Power. According to the firms, Broadpoint Capital advised Energy Innovations on the sale. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Prior to taking the LA Market Manager role, Rob served as SVB's first Chief of Staff where he facilitated the reorganization of SVB's sales organization, and headed up Business Development for SVB's Life Sciences Practice in the Western United States.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? 3) I’ve heard some great stories about your weekend sales “boot camps.” We hired people who did not have outside sales experience. Smaller businesses gravitate to the cost savings.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It has long been held as the ultimate annual shopping holiday, but Cyber Monday has quickly been picking up speed and pulling in equally large amounts of sales. Cyber Monday was officially termed in 2005 by the National Retail Federation after 77% of online retailers reported a surge in spending on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. Tech support is sales. they have purchasing intent ).*. But the rates are high for a reason.

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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. That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

Instead, what we really did, which was instrumental to achieve this type of exit, quickly, is within one month of investment we had opened up a third party sales organization for them in Europe. In Europe, over fifty percent of all the unicorns that have come out of Europe since 2005 have come from the Nordics.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

During its 2014 fiscal year, UGGS sales are estimated to have exceeded $500 million, while Deckers’ overall revenue was in excess of $1.5 His cheeky marketing (“The Best For Your Stick,” “Quick Humps,” and “Dream Cream”) fueled sales and caused High Schools to ban T-shirts sporting the Sex Wax logo. What's SUP? –

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! The world’s best brains are on sale.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. Quinn Curtis: We were not for sale, although to be fair, we had gotten more than a couple of offers to buy the firm. How much thought went into exit strategy and setting up the firm for a sale? Quinn, thanks for the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies. Once a sale price is communicated, the buyer is then incentivized to negotiate your initial proposal downward. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. Plus, holiday e-commerce sales are widely expected to continue rising in 2015.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Because we want to get into production, marketing, and sales, right now we're listing on Fundable.com. We have a business plan and private placement on that site, and recently started searching for investors to raise the funds we needed to go into production, and start marketing and sales.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

It's along sales cycle, but the beauty is that when you're done, you've got client software which a consumer can use, specialized for their device, and able to do cools things, things that you couldn't do if you didn't work directly with the carrier. We're really focused on enterprise sales and carrier grade products.

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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. That makes it the first in console sales. Last year, Xbox 360 held 43% of the overall current-generation console market.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. I had worked before at BEA Systems, the middleware company which was acquired by Oracle in 2004 or 2005, and we used to joke that the company had been built entirely by acquisitions.

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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 think that it's pretty uncommon to go through a sale process, unless it's out of desperation. So are you now looking at new projects and investments?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

More tellingly was the sale of Mint.com to Intuit for $170+ million because it showed VCs that a well-executed investment can still garner a quick, solid results (the company was sold around 3 years after its foundation). VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

He turned me down for a job in 2005. I called another about his fund raising (DUDE – you never called me back! ). I submitted a term sheet to a company yesterday. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. Actually, longer than anybody else in the US I’ve hoped to work with.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

I remember, telling my friends and family in 2005 that I was working on a 3D printer, and their eyes would glaze over. Steve Schell: I really believe it''s a product like the MOD-t, and I''m not just saying that in a sales-pitchy way. We were working on 3D printing before 3D printing was cool.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. Meebo - Founded in 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging and group chat at meebo.com and on partner sites across the Web. There is nothing to download and Stickam is 100% free. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. My blog was wiped out.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. However, in my dual role as the head of sales and business development, I devised mutually advantageous outcomes with customers and partners which culminated in a collective “Yes” from all the involved parties. 11) Brands Matter.

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