Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. We did a successful trial in 2008. What's the experience of your management team?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

Upon reflection, I realized that I leveraged many of the tactics routinely used by advertisers, politicians and other professional communicators to engage their audiences, including: Question Within A Question – Numerous ads lead off with a question, as do professional speakers, in an attempt to connect with their audience at the outset.

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Writing Social Network Ideas Entrepreneur 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Founded in 2007.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

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. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

We have the usual suspects like Kitchenaid, Sara Lee, McCormick, Reynolds but we really focus on entertainment properties like Sony, ABC, Fox Searchlight. We have since raised a friends and family round in 2007, pretty modest--enough to get to our first milestone. We're making money from our advertising, and doing really well.

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Social Network Startup Sites Networking 174

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2011

million from advertising. billion in cumulative bookings since their inception in 2007. From these interactions and item creation, Zynga makes almost all of their money through virtual goods. In 2010, Zynga made $574.6 million from virtual goods/online games and just $22.8 Zynga has generated over $1.5

Statistics 69

Statistics News Invest Advertising 69

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

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. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In 2007 there was a huge surge of home video clips airing on TV along with docu-style shows, aka reality TV, eventually taking over the airways and knocking out professional actors one by one.

Networking 95

Networking Content Media Invest 95

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The reason for that is simple, when Stephan started the company in 2007, he couldn’t find the specialist who could deliver or develop highly sophisticated and complicated algorithms that we have developed. These companies have deep pockets and spend heavily on advertising. Got it, so I see the development team is based out of Austria?

Startup 101

Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

I’d personally heard of Startup Weekend back when it got started in 2007 out in Boulder but only attended my first Startup Weekend in late 2009. When LASW kicked off Friday evening at Coloft, we had over 100 on the wait list and countless requests from others to join the event — even folks sneaking in and pitching (without a ticket).

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

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.” Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com. Loren Bendele – CEO of Savings.com.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78