socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. There's been a dramatic shift in recent years from the traditional videogame model, to social, mobile, and casual games. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games.

Activision 217

Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

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.

Media 150

Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. How we differentiate from other social networks that are more general, is that we offer lots of features specific to travelers. Berkeley in 2005, and right after that I started working on the site. He graduated from U.C.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Social Network Web 100

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well. That was between 2010 and 2012.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well. That was between 2010 and 2012.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. Those are almost like little social networks built around a topic. That was in 2000 and 2001, which was not all that long ago. You can find those topics via a search engine within the app.

Gogii 200

Gogii Mobile Activision Electronic Arts 200

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. Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. That's different from most games on Facebook, and on social networks as a whole, which are relatively simple games, with the same gaming mechanics over and over again.

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Beverly Hills Advertising Design Activity 182

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 new model includes viewing content — but adds interactivity, multiple screens, personalization, social networking, cloud streaming and mobility. What does that mean?

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

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. We then captured this conversation again on camera. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties. We then spoke about startups.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

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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. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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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. Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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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.

Blogging 219

Blogging Venture Capital Startup Social Media 219

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

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MAY 15, 2010

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. . $5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

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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!

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

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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 Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. I have talked in the past about other layers that are emerging particularly in social networking and mobile applications. By then the open-source movement had really developed. Other Layers.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210