socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Pharmaceutical companies spent $20 billion a year marketing their products to medical offices. However, the whole business of those companies working with medical offices is one sorely in need of technology. How did you start the company? The company was born out of the inefficiency in the system. What is RxVantage?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

That has changed dramatically in the past five years. Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

William spent about half the time showing amusing new commercials and going through the evolution of his life leading up to the inception of Vizio as well as how a $600,000 investment turned into a $3 billion company seven years later. All this success in less than five years. in 2009 and #1 in LED quality in 2010.

Orange County 104

Orange County OCTANE Technical Review Outsource Development 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

You have an offer to sell your company. Five million? How do you process your company’s biggest decisions? They told me that we had a chance to build the next great Internet company. I was also deeply paranoid that a bad recession was coming (this was early 2007). If you raise money the game continues.

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News Venture Capital Yahoo .Net 405

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We spoke with Erick Laubach , the founder of Crash--which is backed by famed startup incubator Idealab--to hear about how the company is hoping to tap the power of the crowd to help others find interesting, local attractions. How did the company start? Erick Laubach: Originally, I started a travel startup in 2007 called Driftr.

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Idealab Startup Incubator Mobile 245

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

October” because of his consistent ability to hit home runs during clutch situations in playoff and World Series games, which contributed to his teams winning five Championships. As such, he played for five different teams during his career. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Reggie earned the nickname “Mr. Cal Ripkin, Jr.

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Statistics Press Product Startup 212

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. For those not familiar with ManiaTV, what does your company do? Those times are gone.

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Entertainment Advertising Hollywood Startup 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Now, a new breed of companies is finally making it out, which has had a huge impact on valuations. There''s a huge backlog of companies trying to make it out. What''s interesting about ad-tech, is that with the exception of AdaptTV and AOL, there''s not a lot of large buyers out there for ad-tech companies.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles. It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. But great companies are often founded by people who cut their teeth working at a successful venture and then taking their insights and going it alone.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Slides 306

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You have authored two bestselling books explaining why certain companies will “Last” and how others have gone from “Good to Great” and subsequently a majority of the companies falter and some completely fail. Thus, over one-half of the companies identified by Mr. Collins as exemplary proved to be anything but. What do you do?

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Entrepreneur Research Writing Course 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week El Segundo-based Wpromote acquired fellow marketing agency Standing Dog, in a deal which brings the company to 260 employees, and continues to grow the company. If it's a digital channel, and there are customers to connect with, we are looking to help those companies grow. That's where we're the most impactful.

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Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You have authored two bestselling books explaining why certain companies will “Last” and how others have gone from “Good to Great” and subsequently a majority of the companies falter and some completely fail. Thus, over one-half of the companies identified by Mr. Collins as exemplary proved to be anything but. What do you do?

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Entrepreneur Research Writing Course 150

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

It was interesting to see the acquisition of Accordent - it seems unusual to have only put in $4M in to a company in so many years, and yet you had a good exit? We're also looking for more of the bootstrapped approach from our companies. Accordent had been bootstrapped for five years before we met them.

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Capital Hermosa Beach El Segundo Invest 168

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. They've built successful companies, but looking at the IPO market they're essentially stuck.

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Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. For example, at an event, say at the Staples Center, of the 20,000 seats they might have four or five price groups.

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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.Net Satisfaction Entrepreneur Custom 182

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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.Net Satisfaction Custom Customer 168

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund. It's the quality of the team.

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Gogii Mobile Activision Electronic Arts 200

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

In fact, there are several types of valuations and they come into play at different times in a company’s lifecycle. For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. Business valuations = the price of the company.

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IP Equity Examples Guide 40

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, CareerPress, LegalAcreements.com, and others, and now we are opening up the marketplace so that virtually anyone can sell high quality, professional content. We're now at the end of year 3 of the company.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Those organizations have larger calling needs--maybe calling five hundred, or a thousand people--so they end up buying our premium service. We have a conversion rate of between five and ten percent of users on a given month, who convert to premium usage. How is the company funded? It's 5 cents per call.

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Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

For some perspective on the industry, as well as to learn more about the company, we spoke with Loren Bendele , CEO of Los Angeles-based Savings.com (www.savings.com). Loren Bendele: We started in March of 2007. There has been lots of interest in coupons, deals, sales sites, and such--not to mention lots of new companies.

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Sites Content Sales Demand 217

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

To get the story behind KTSi, we spoke with Dick Newark , CEO of the company, Chandler Williamson , CMO; and Rudy Lautz , CFO. The origins of the design that we have goes back to a company from the United Kingdom in the late 90's, and actually came out of high speed, centrifuge technology which is used for uranium enrichment.

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Design Training Southern California Outsource Development 138

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

I was founder and CEO of one of the world's fastest growing software companies, PacketVideo, which created the software which is on billions of cell phones now. Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. Tell us the story of how you started the organization?

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Pricing Help Startup Sites 183

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. Josh was formerly the President of Pandemic Studios, and helped co-found the company, merge it with Bioware, and eventually sell the combined firm to Electronic Arts for $860M. What's the idea behind the ntro?

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Electronic Arts Startup Mobile West Los Angeles 236

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2009

Eric Golden, the firm's President and CEO, told us more about the company and its technology, and its fascinating beginnings from Hollywood's Steadicam. For example, we're working with the top five car companies in the world, the top aerospace company in the world, as well as heavy equipment manufacturers.

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Technical Review Hollywood Tool Technology 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

We had the chance to speak with William Volk , Chief Creative Officer of Playscreen (www.playscreen.com), who talked how his company is looking to crack the code with Crickler 2: Daily Word Puzzle , which is among the most popular puzzle games on iTunes, and recently number one in free educational games. stars, mostly five star reviews.

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Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009. IPO in 1996).

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Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. For example, when Tumblr announced it would roll out Post+, a paid subscription product, the company used fan fiction writers as an example of a content creator who could profit from the product.

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Writing Outsource Development Technical Review Examples 196