socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. Tell me about Connected Travel?

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. How did you start company? READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter. Does minting those stories as NFTs affect the copyright of those stories?

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. I realized that I should build a platform to put content. platform, turned it into an art site, and it just took off from the get go. That's when the light bulb went on. I figured there.

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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. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. The history of tech will always tell you there was a defining moment for companies (like Twitter at SXSW in 2007) but the reality is often more nuanced. Same with Gaga. “It was a series of inflection points.

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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. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based ManiaTV (www.maniatv.com) is one of the companies, having moved here in 2007 from Denver to take advantage of the local talent. Peter Hoskins: Mania TV sells, produces, packages, and distributes original programming on the Internet and other new media platforms. Creators now have a platform to launch their business.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 We have a market-leading tag management platform that is the on-ramp to a marketing-led customer management platform,” Lunsford said. Lunsford oversaw WebSideStory’s IPO in 2004, and Limelight’s IPO in 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). iAd platform was formally launches in July 2010 as part of iOS 4. Total Raised: $366mm.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. We happen to be very profitable company, but as we look to grow, also need to explore different sources of capital. Really, it's just another source of capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Lesson learned (to me at least) – let people get stinking rich off your platform and tax ‘em later.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

At this stage, both candidates have given major economic addresses, and both parties have published their platforms. The word “innovation” appears 22 times in the Republican platform and 14 times in the draft Democratic platform. Democrats: Clinton said back in 2007 that the U.S. Here’s the rundown.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Community Sponsors.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. How did the company come about? As a result, Gil noticed what we were doing, and was compelled by it.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. But, we've seen so much interest in the flash sales space, we saw an opportunity to raise more capital, and use that to press on the accelerator. That's what has allowed us to grow so fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital. Other Deals.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform. Per the chart below, the technology underlying GoToMyPC became a platform upon which we eventually built a family of products, such as: GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToAssist. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM).

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. While we participate in a NYSE-like platforms, we utilize those real time auctions to better buy media, and buy media in a better way than what we've done in the past. funding round. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. Specific skills: Platform selection and technical design Seeing the big picture (in graphic detail) Provide options Find the 80/20 Grow technical leaders Own the development methodology Charlie O'Donnell, an EIR at First Round Capital - Looking for a CTO?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform. Per the chart below, the technology underlying GoToMyPC became a platform upon which we eventually built a family of products, such as: GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToAssist. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

startup, capitalized growth stage, large, established company, etc.). Such reciprocal references are worthless, especially when they are published on a social networking platform. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. For instance, is your reference for graduate school or a job at a startup? Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

« Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees. My professional background is in online ads, social media, and venture capital. December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). October 2007 (11). September 2007 (15). August 2007 (7). July 2007 (9). June 2007 (18). June 2007 (18).

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

When I joined Webtide from IBM in 2007, I also discovered that the basic costs of running a company is a lot lower than running a company was in 2003. There's on-demand platforms for accounting, customer relationships, and things like that, and the options in each of those categories have let us have low monthly costs. So far so good.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. Bill Gurley , a well known VC from Benchmark Capital, seemed to have a 2-year hiatus from blogging and has now picked up the pace. Thank you, Twitter.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now. And what happened in L.A. is--were not Sand Hill Road, right? Register Now!

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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. So the amount of money that went into this was pretty capital intensive. So we had to move actually from L.A

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased. They looked unstoppable.

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