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MARCH 25, 2013

Tekelec had started in Southern California back in 1978, and had been a onetime technology darling when it had its IPO back in 1986. The firm, which was then based in Calabasas, moved out of the area in 2005, taking with it hundreds of jobs. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

Oracle 147

Oracle Southern California Calabasas High Tech 147

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sonos started shipping its systems in 2005. Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the maker of user-friendly, wireless music systems, reports this morning that it has now deployed its systems into more than one million rooms.

Santa Barbara 140

Santa Barbara Report Develop Development 140

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Internet giant Google said Friday that it will be shutting down web analytics service Urchin , the onetime San Diego startup which had been acquired by Google in April of 2005.

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Google Services San Diego Web 176

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Generation X (Generation Me) – 64.9 That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand.

Demand 103

Demand Startup Course Summary 103

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Mamaloot was started by two mothers, Bo Johnson and Lindsay Cohen, who met while working at Orbitz. FamilyFinds said the acquisition gives it a head start in Chicago. The firm faces formidable competition in Chicago, which is the home of daily deals phenomenon Groupon.

Sites 174

Sites Competition Acquisition Los Angeles 174

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JULY 30, 2012

As part of those moves, Yahoo is also reportedly looking to start back into the acquisitions game, which once upon a time helped power the rise and success of Southern California's startup scene.

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Santa Monica Yahoo Southern California Acquisition 153

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 If you're starting something new, expect a long and challenging journey. Amazon.com and Yahoo! Then you’ll give up way too soon.

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Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 127

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Dusig and Lavin started United Sample in 2008, a few years after selling goZing to Greenfield Online in 2005. Encino-based United Sample , the online polling and sampling firm headed by former goZing founders Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin , has renamed itself uSamp , the firm said Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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Sample Encino 140

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Bestcovery was started in 2008, and has 8 employees. Pourzanjani was CEO of Pricegrabber.com until its $485M purchase by Experian in 2005. The new widget ties its expert reviews alongside content from Pricegrabber, which recommends those products based on the expert's pick. Bestcovery launched in November of last year. READ MORE>>.

Web 140

Web Software Review Santa Monica Content 140

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Gross started and headed up FastClick, taking it to an IPO in 2005, and eventually selling the firm to ValueClick. Connexity said that it is integrating social networking and recommendation engine technology into its advertising technology. READ MORE>>.

Seed Funding 113

Seed Funding Ventura Funding Advertising 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Morph said its service will start at $800 per month for a minimum of three months, with a free, trial version with limited virtual machine support also available to trail the service. Damarillo founded GlueCode Software, which he sold to IBM in 2005. READ MORE>>.

Cloud Computing 140

Cloud Computing IBM IBM Los Angeles 140

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When we started doing this, it was heretical,” Revolution co-founder Tige Savage tells TechCrunch. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. Revolution Ventures managing partner Tige Savage. People who were investors thought, ‘Why would you do this?

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Venture Capital Funding Seed Funding Activity 211

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. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company. So he decided to start his company in Canada. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

There is a universal truth: fewer than one in a thousand start-ups meet or exceed their projected revenues in the periods planned. I thought then that the best way to value a start-up is to give value to those elements of progress by the entrepreneur or team that reduce risk of success.

Startup 120

Startup Examples Metrics Marketing 120

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2010

Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. Morphlabs is developing a cloud-based computing appliance which is used to manage and deploy elastic computing clouds.

El Segundo 124

El Segundo EC2 Cloud Computing Venture Capital 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In his most memorable book, “ The Art of The Start 2.0 ,” Guy Kawasaki exhorts entrepreneurs to focus on making meaning, not money. Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation way back in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Find personal meaning from building a business. Do it for meaning.

Startup 144

Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Ideas 144

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2009

Online video service Hulu has started carrying Bollywood movies, and has signed digital distributor Saavn to show a number of Bollywood films from India. According to Saavn, it will offer five titles from India, including "Sarkar", a 2005 version of "The Godfather." Financial terms of the distribution deal were not disclosed.

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Hulu Hollywood Content Sites 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand.

Demand 83

Demand Startup Course Summary 83

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Invest Cloud Computing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 If you're starting something new, expect a long and challenging journey. Amazon.com and Yahoo! Then you’ll give up way too soon.

Startup 111

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. I had started keeping a personal blog (on Blogger) about family life just for my friends and family and I realized how hard it was to get even my closest family members to remember to visit there to see updated photos of the kids.

Startup 150

Startup Blogging Newsletter Social Network 150

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. Minutes later, offers started arriving in my inbox. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general.

Westlake Village 188

Westlake Village Report Course Entrepreneur 188

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Drag along rights? I read every post several times.

Venture Capital 304

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Guide Blogging 304

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

When I started my first company in 1997 during the middle of the dot com Gold Rush, there were 8-10 meaningful companies in the LA ecosystem. Prior to starting Crosscut, Brett was a serial entrepreneur who built, operated, and sold a number of internet media companies including Myspace.com. in 2005 for $680M.

Southern California 100

Southern California News Platform Class 100

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. Lets start with the basics. What makes L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

The firm, which offers both free and premium mass notification systems, was started in San Jose in 2007 by Nahm and co-founder Kalvin Kim. Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.

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IP Yahoo Web Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. I had built an audio company before.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

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. United Sample said that Dana Settle of Greycroft will join the firm's board along with the funding.

Sample 113

Sample Venture Capital Sales Research 113

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. Minutes later, offers started arriving in my inbox. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general.

Westlake Village 100

Westlake Village Report Course Product 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

When I bought house, this was a non-issue as the value had increased a tremendous percentage from when I bought back it in 2005. Minutes later, offers started arriving in my inbox. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general.

Westlake Village 100

Westlake Village Report Course Product 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 was starting. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. on an H1 a student visa or something else, to get a visa that is valid to start your own company.”.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand.

Startup 57

Startup Demand Course Summary 57

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. For me it’s a sign that people outside the region are starting to grok what we who have been on the ground for some time have been saying. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He was a mensch.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. Tell us the story behind how the firm started? What is the value proposition behind the service?

Newsletter 216

Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. But in the past few years I’ve entered what is called the “sandwich years&# in which you start helping to take care of your parents as well as young kids. Tags: Start-up Advice. Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento. … $$$?

Marketing 263

Marketing Startup Education Class 263

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Winston Damarillo: We actually started Morphlabs in Asia, because we decided to try something new and initiate things in Japan and the Phillippines. Winston, nice speaking with you again.

Southern California 242

Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242