socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based Panache , a provider of online advertising software and services, has been acquired by 24/7 Real Media , 24/7 Real Media said this morning. Panache offers up a variety of video ad formats to marketers and advertisers, and counts Fox News, CBS, and MTV Networks as customers. The firm was founded in 2006.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Is the world ready for another event management software provider? Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology. You point out that there''s a lot of folks in this market, why jump in with a new service?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2012

Location-based analytics software firm MomentFeed , which is based in Santa Monica, has turned to a former Facebook executive for advice, the firm said today. According to the startup, it has added former Facebook sales director Rob Lissner as Special Advisor to the CEO, to help shape the firm's product and sales strategy. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The firm said the new funding will go to expands its go-to-market efforts. IVT was formerly known as Interactive Video Technologies, and last raised funding back in 2006. Tags: software webcast capital venture video interactive. This new funding brings its total raised to around $10.5M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of IP communications software for the embedded market, said this morning that it has promoted two of its executives and created two new business units. Tags: technologies voip embedded software executive. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our big news as a company was deciding to "transform" Transform Group itself - moving from the top PR firm in the blockchain world to a blockchain company that has a division that now has represented 31 percent of the entire market cap of the nearly $600 billion crypto landscape (excluding bitcoin). Aside from $50,000 bitcoin? CryptoKitties!

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. The market was probably $100 million or less when we first looked at Accordent. We believed that in the pure venture market, it's hard to compete.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Amazon has razor thin profits compared to their revenue but Bezos doesn't care he just wants growth and world domination and has a market cap of $763B. The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. Mobile-XL develops mobile browser software and information services. Mobile-XL noted that the two companies plan to unveil the collaboration in a few select markets later this year.

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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. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. Bryan Cheung: Our two software architects had worked on this for four years, before starting the company. We would provide maintenance updates for the software, and we had integrators do the implementation. What is LifeRay? How did the company start?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Grants can be used at the discretion of the business owner – from marketing to onboarding and beyond, but winners need to use the funds as they pledged to in their application. Since 2006, NASE has handed out almost $1,000,000 through the program. Fortunately, the program doesn't require a lengthy application.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made. Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; a number of hires and a promotion.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Despite the widespread impact of software today on our lives, there are a number of areas of computer science research which have had a difficult time in being translated into practical, every day usage. Tell us what ArmorWay''s software is all about, and what it''s used for? Zare'' Baghdasarian: We are growing many vertical markets.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft in a statement said ; “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution”. The PPI screens too have a huge market potential. There are government agencies to learning institutions and events.

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JULY 16, 2010

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. Quinn Curtis: We had recently signed Webroot as a licensee of our software, as an OEM partner. Our reputation produt and content classification technology is the best on the market. How long was BrightCloud around for before being acquired?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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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 The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. That died with waterfall software development. Do so at your peril.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This past Spring, David Friend, CEO of the backup software company Carbonite, made a hasty decision on a Saturday to pull the company’s ads from a national radio talk show after being pressured by reactionary political groups. Their follow-up album, released in 2006, won five Grammy Awards and eventual sold a respectable 2.3

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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 have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We've grown really fast. There's complexity in being a CDN.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool!

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. It wasn’t about raising multiple rounds and burning jet fuel. It has allowed us to scale in a very measured way.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. More red tape.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We are focused on the investment in and acquisition of software firms that are generating $2.5M These companies have built a leadership position in the market they serve, and they meet a mission critical need of their customer base. We know at a very granular level, by software sector, what a likely acquirer is going to pay.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

Sites 59

Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30).

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

I was founder and CEO of one of the world's fastest growing software companies, PacketVideo, which created the software which is on billions of cell phones now. However, in 2006, my own son got cancer, and I was thrown into the sad state of affairs that goes into that. it's every bit as demanding at DonateGames.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2008

We are working on two different markets, which is why we have our office here in LA. The first market is in brand advertising, where we're working with ad companies and clients to create solutions for shows and exhibitions where guests can interact with a brand. The second one is in the entertainment market.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. We started dating, and actually got married.

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. Is that when it became big?

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