socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2010

Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the mobile application development firm run by Rahul Sonnad, has signed up Clear Channel's airport division, Clear Channel Airports , the companies said today. The companies said the new application is available for free download on the iPhone now, with Android and BlackBerry versions slated for later release.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 18, 2014

Back in 2006, my company was awarded Services Company of the Year by the Technology Council of Southern California. After, we got our photo taken by that 15 year old paparazzi that everyone was talking about. We wanted to celebrate. So I called OnStar Cadillac Concierge services from my Escalade (yes, it had big rims).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If there are burnout or communication problems on a founding team those problems can hijack a company's progress. Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the big money was focused on user count growth. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” So let’s take a look.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

FedEx Small Business Grant For: Small businesses Amount: Up to $50,000 Grantor: FedEx FedEx's Small Business Grant is a grant contest run by delivery company FedEx. Since 2006, NASE has handed out almost $1,000,000 through the program. Get a huge 86% off Surfshark with this special tech.co

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. How did the company start?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Companies typically rebrand themselves for two distinct reasons. Such attempts are seldom successful, as rebranding typically does not address the systemic issues causing the company to fail. RIM''s management made the brilliant decision to change the company''s name to BlackBerry, Ltd. Jimmy To James.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Dave’s note: Here comes my favorite “tell-it-like-it-is” CEO, Kim Shepherd, with another of her pieces from her experience managing a completely virtual company with over one hundred employees located through the United States and beyond. . By Kim Shepherd. Isn’t that someone you want on your team?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 20, 2011

This upcoming Splash will showcase 10 up-and-coming startups, prominent VCs and founders of the leading LA-based companies - Demand Media and ReachLocal. Hear Shawn Colo, co-founder and EVP of MandA at Demand Media, share his lessons and advice on building Demand from scratch in 2006 to one of this year's hottest IPOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, portfolios. Here’s why.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. With any startup, that's always something you think about. But, we build the company for the long term.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 9, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. Shawn created the original concept for Demand Media and executed the simultaneous acquisitions of eNom, eHow and several domain-name portfolios which launched the company. About Startups Uncensored. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. he's taken an built a company, literally single handedly, to multiple millions in revenue, by enabling artists and.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

We spoke with Jose daVeiga , the firm's CEO and co-founder, to learn more about the company. We don't ask questions about every play, but we ask questions about plays that matter. We started in 2006, with an in-venue trial at the Alamo Bowl, where we gave out prizes and coupons. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

If you have a venture you believe in and you are showing good growth traction, it's all about growth not profitability. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? Go Big or Go Home is a lesson I leaner again :-). Raise as much as you can so long as you can keep the growth up.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Now, a new breed of companies is finally making it out, which has had a huge impact on valuations. There''s a huge backlog of companies trying to make it out. What''s interesting about ad-tech, is that with the exception of AdaptTV and AOL, there''s not a lot of large buyers out there for ad-tech companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We caught up with James Segil , the firm's President, to hear the story behind that big growth at the company. We've grown really fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. What IS relevant about the size of a VC’s fund?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A startup leader's primary responsibility is to maximize the return to its stakeholders, which include the company's global and local neighbors, employees, suppliers, customers and investors. Angry people are usually inspired to act against your company's interests. Be boring in public. million units.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

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. I realized that with Facebook I could just publish them into the stream and my family would see them.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thin Line--formed in partnership with LA's Wavemaker Partners--is hoping to take advantage of the growth in the clean technology market to find startups able to tapping into those now established markets, without the huge investment requirements of those first wave of clean technology companies. Talk about the new firm and the new fund?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

Alex is CEO and Segil is President of the new company, which is focused on access control and management. They sat down and told us a bit about whyafter a string of successful companieswhy they've gotten back into the startup game, and why they've decided to tackle the whole area of getting you into your office.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach?” Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” It was not a planted question by me. Outline your key attributes.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

My presentation began with a “moon&# themed, song-filled slideshow of the history of the company. The first slide was entitled, “Once Upon a Time in Jorts&# as I found an old picture of myself and Jeremy Anticouni (we’ve worked together for 14 years, 3 companies) and sadly, I was wearing a pair of jorts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. billion in returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. So many companies suck at managing their booths. So many companies suck at managing their booths. We closed a $16.5

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We thought we'd take a look at the trend, so we recently talked with Adorian Deck (https://www.youtube.com/user/AdorianDeck), an up and coming 22-year old Youtuber, who told us his story about how he's made Youtube his full time gig, and gives us some insight into the world of influencers and branded videos. It's a nice escape from reality.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I’ve had a post in my head for months – maybe longer – about the role of a CEO. I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Selling the company. Both are basically people businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Thank you. (if

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