socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. Vultures will start circling looking for deals.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network.

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APRIL 2, 2010

If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011. I wouldn’t say the have NO firepower but it’s not likely a lot left. GRP’s last fund was in 2000.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer. It’s not publicly known exactly when Google began developing Chrome and Chromium, but it must have been late 2006 or early 2007 since Chrome launched in September 2008.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. Prior to that, the big title at MyNUMO was Match 3D, which was a very ambitious title in 2008, and was a freebie game. In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Our 2011 exits of Accordent Technologies and Del Mar Datatrac (DMD) put us in the top decile of performance for 2007 vintage year, private equity funds. Many 2006-2008 vintage year funds are behind schedule in achieving exits due to the macro-economic environment we have all faced over the last five years.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. Laura Trice , M.D.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. August 2011. The market had tanked.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. and has recently come back down to 122% (said David Brooks on The PBS News Hour).

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JULY 19, 2011

By now most people acknowledge that social media helped play a role in candidate Obama’s 2008 election campaign. In 2011 it is too early to say what the story of the 2012 election will be, but I’m certain that social media will play a large role in it and that it won’t look like the social media campaigns of 2007-08.

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