socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. Kelly Tompkins: AdventureLink is a reservation network, which allows consumers and agents to book adventure travel around the world. Talk about your VoIP network?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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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. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell. Competitors: Knewton.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. We successfully built up that firm, and in late 2006 we sold it to Tandberg Television. How did you connect with Tony?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. Right now, we are running targeted ads using ad networks or whatnot. How long has the site been up and running? What have you learned so far in getting the site up and running? What's the story behind Ranker?

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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. It's unique, in that it encompasses the concept that the kids are empowered to run the community, instead of just hanging out and visiting it like most sites.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Recently, an interesting project popped up on the site--a a 2D to 3D conversion project , from the inventor of the original, LCD projector, Gene Dolgoff. What's the next step for your project?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin can be less efficient because both networks are validated using “proof of work,” an algorithm that verifies the legitimacy of a transaction by solving energy-intensive math puzzles. Federa added that the entire Solana network is designed to keep fees low in the long term.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

We get around 22 percent of those users from our marketing efforts, but the other 78 percent are from viral effect and word of mouthall those people hearing the greeting and going to the web site. Wireless networks are a bill-and-keep network, but you can''t just decide you want to send Verizon a couple of hundred minutes and not pay.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. What is IBN Sports? The other obvious piece for us is distribution with television.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

We then started Edgecast in 2006. We had noticed this challenge at Verizon, where you had to have multiple badges for multiple offices, until they could get an MPLS circuit, firewall, and network, and team to manage to synchronize credentials across those offices. We make that easy to do, to handle multiple sites with our solution.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

The reason passwords don't work, is because if you want a stronger password, when a system forces you to use a certain number of characters, or put numbers or special characters into a password, people can use keystroke logging to force themselves into your network or your PC. CAPTCHA usually are those warped letters, which are hard to read.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew Graczyk is founder of angel-backed Zubican (www.zubican.com)--saw a problem, which was the difficulty of finding suppliers for products for businesses--and decided to solve the problem, with a site specifically targeted at helping B2B buyers and sellers connect. It's a full-blown, B2B social network. companies on the Internet.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Digital LA is the startup world’s largest networking organization focused on digital professionals. Social Enterprise: Hub LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. We have a marketplace to share content, and one of our explicit goals is to foster entrepreneurship on the platform and network, allowing people to sell their creations via the marketplace. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After quietly lobbying for Rapid City to become a host city since 2006, she made it onto the agenda to give a formal presentation at ICPC 2013 in St. With the help of Visit Rapid City, Logar’s presentation convinced the ICPC Executive Committee to do a site visit. Logar played a major role in bringing the event to town.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

We started in the mobile area in 2003 and 2004, and in 2006 we formed a company, MyNumo LLC, which initially started as a portal for artists to publish their ringtones, mobile videos, and more. Many poker games only work on the network. It's almost as much running an e-commerce site, as you are running a game.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Our goal, from the outset, since 2006 when we put the company together, was to bring together the extraordinary content on the Internet, whether that is a website, games, or videos for kids. It sounds like you're trying to spur a little bit of crowdsourcing content for the site? Cliff Boro: Yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. And covered we did. Tempus Fugit.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

SXSW Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas the community has to offer.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

In rare cases when a non-bot tries to participate in Twitter, the uber-bot [type T] prevents the whole bot network from negative impacts by serving a 503 error to the homunculus’ browser. XXXL t-shirt that I really like to get a descriptive link from this site. And by the way, Twitter should finally end URI shortening.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. If you said 6 million (as of April 2012), you’d be close, because JustFab is growing by nearly to 500,000 members a month.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. Ben Huh, Cheezburger Network. Walter Knapp, Lijit Networks (www.lijit.com).

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Against the odds, within a few years, adMonitor had become one of the most dominant advertising networks on the Internet, serving billions of ads each month for over 3,000 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T and Visa.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Starting Point was best at searching the search engines and, as a result, we quickly became the 7th most popular site on the Internet. L90 (Startup 3.0) , my third company, was the "premium advertising network".

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). billion for the site in 2006. There are now more than 24 hours of video uploaded every minute to the site. One video blog (now called vlog) on YouTube has over two million subscribers.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. There is a lack of technology innovation available for website owners and publishers to most effectively monetize their sites through advertising. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. . Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. L90 was the premier advertising network on the Internet. One guy was the creator of Microsoft Excel and the other created the first network for IBM. (No, How can you run an ad-network without an ad-serving technology?

Advertising 40

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. With enterprise software, your product sits at the customer’s site. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3. Things seem to move a lot slower.

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