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MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. First of all, tell us what Fine Art America is all about? print, in about a month metal prints, and greeting cards. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I figured there.

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APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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MAY 25, 2018

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. Having the pitches and showcase as part of the conference is a nice feature for the startups, so the whole thing isn’t just about the pitch. iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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JULY 1, 2010

Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Actually, I’ve done this!

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JUNE 1, 2011

I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

We caught up with Uygur--who has had his own show on Sirius Satellite Radio, hosted MSNBC Live, and currently has his own show on Current TV--to learn more about The Young Turks, his online efforts, and his views on how media is shifting to the Internet. We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25 billion views.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Unfortunately, the market was as excited by the new devices as they were about the company''s revised name. percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4 I promise I will never Tweet about companies that do desperation rebranding or that killer burrito I just ate. Image: ilamont.com. Share and Enjoy.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. Talk about your other titles? In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it. It's very broad, and casual.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We spoke with CEO Bryan Cheung to learn more about LifeRay, and how it grew from a church basement and open source to $100M+ in revenues, without ever taking outside capital. Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. What is LifeRay? 2017 will be a great year for us.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

We spoke with Jose daVeiga , the firm's CEO and co-founder, to learn more about the company. We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. We don't ask questions about every play, but we ask questions about plays that matter. What's the idea behind Klicksports? Explain what you mean by in-venue?

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APRIL 23, 2011

Tell us more about Highland Capital (14:30 – 16:30). Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30). About half of StubHub inventory is ticket broker inventory and some of the largest brokers are investors in FanSnap. 37:00-40:30).

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform.

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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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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? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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JUNE 25, 2012

How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

The company now has about 130 employees, and counts Petco, Advance Auto Parts, Pier 1 Imports, and Charlotte Russe among its 500-plus retailer customers in over 70 countries. It wasn’t about raising multiple rounds and burning jet fuel. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

The base of the site is instead of a recipe swap, it's more about integrating recipes and figuring out the conversations that happen around recipes. The idea is that food transcends just making it in the kitchen, every time you start preparing food, you start having a conversation about something. We're thinking about phone apps.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. Raph Koster: Metaplace is creating an end user platform, which allows people to build their own virtual worlds, and put it on any website on the Internet. Basically, it's an open platform, really aimed at end users.

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APRIL 16, 2010

What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about? Let's talk about your background, and also how this related to CheapCheapCheat? Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

Around the 2006 timeframe, they hit $3M, and we saw the unique position that they could occupy in the industry. They kept building really great functionality into the platform, and they were always ahead of the market, and always able to anticipate what customers wanted next. Talk more about your philosophy of investments?

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APRIL 25, 2011

Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup. It's all about fun.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In the beginning YouTuber Olga Kay was extremely proactive about trying to figure out the YouTube game leveraging credit cards to attend as many meetups, conferences and events related to YouTube around the country. This is true for all social platforms like Twitter and Facebook. You want an audience who engages. They were right.

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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. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. 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. Silicon Valley? That’s so yesterday. Social Enterprise: Hub LA.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL (www.eqal.com) launched into the online world in 2006 with the creation of the YouTube sensation "lonelygirl15," the fictional video blog of a teenage girl. First, why don't you tell us a little bit about what your model is with companies like CBS? Thanks for the interview. Frequency is very important.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

We caught up with Kelly Tompkins, the firm's founder and CEO, to hear more about the firm. What's the new company all about? I backburnered the concept until 2006, and in May of 2006 put the business together. Talk about your VoIP network? The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

What's special about your virtual world? Sherry Gunther: I spent about 20 years in the entertainment and television animation area. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. Can you talk about how parental control works with the site? Have you thought about the issues there?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. For those of you who may not know about StartupDemo, it is an event that TechZulu and Schmoozd have partnered up to bring you some of the hottest startups around.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

We spoke with Dr. Sadr about the firm. Tell us a little bit about your products? You put our system into a warehouse or reatil, and you can receive information about all of the tags in that area -- wall-to-wall, floor-to-floor. Our platform has teraflops of computation power, which enables the performance to track the sensors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD., Producer of Mixergy & AsAble.com. The Startups.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. Siggi is passionate about changing the pipeline for female and minority founders, and co-leads an ever-expanding network of Women in Enterprise. Read more about our Startup Nights and SXSW on TechCo.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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