socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Organization 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Organization 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

provides online service to compile and compare plans and rates across multiple monthly services. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. PriceGrabber.com is an online comparison shopping service. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

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. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. What does that mean? Even more choices.

Screening 82

Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We feel that we can be an enabler of productive, secure, and intuitive use of the web for commercial purposes, whether that's for a social networking site, for communications, medical records, or financial services.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. How did the idea for Meebo version 3, the web-based IM service, come about? Seth constantly listened to user feedback and tweaked his service along the way to improve the user experience. We then captured this conversation again on camera.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

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. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. 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. Online radio music service.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Laura Brashier – Founder of 2date4love.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Criteo – Provider of online ad retargeting services and personalized recommendation service.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

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. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Everybody is now payment ready.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. If you’re raising money in Financial Services I’ve never met a more knowledgeable investor than my partner, Brian McLoughlin.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. And Social. tl;dr summary. VCs were very active in this period.

Marketing 305

Marketing Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. Let me explain. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343