socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group. I was traveling and in San Francisco, and at the TechCrunch conference in 2007 I ran into a group of folks from LA. I know you've talked about this before, but how did you end up in Los Angeles? One person there was Nicole Jordan.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such revenue included membership fees, certification fees, non-recurring engineering charges (to integrate our technology with each member’s products) and User Conference fees. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons. Copyright © 2007-10 by J.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Angels have been prolific for years now and they, too, rely on downstream money to cover their bets. Web Summit.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

It costs anywhere from $200 to $300 a month per workstation, which is full service gross, Internet, and shared equipment and conference rooms. In 2007, we started to put some policy attached to the money, and created a jobs investment fund. What led the City of Ventura to start an incubator? The purpose was to deliver high value jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. We discussed: 1. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2016

Regulus was formed in September 2007 as a joint venture between Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ) and Carlsbad, CA-based Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS ). Regulus is hosting a conference call this afternoon to discuss the news. The company went public in 2012 at $4 per share, but closed as high as $22.08

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Signal and Miragen will host a conference call this morning to discuss the merger. Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later. That’ll leave the combined company with over $50 million in cash at the deal’s closing.

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JULY 23, 2014

2007 was the watershed year. Facebook went mainstream after the F8 conference and its big push beyond college campuses. I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics. If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. What''s the current environment for M&A and IPOs, in general? How about mergers and acquisitions?

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. That company was sold in 2007. The company was founded in March of 2007, so we'd been developing the software and putting together the infrastructure for delivering the service since that time.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

At the LeWeb conference, German startup Club Cooee showed off its desktop 3D instant messaging service as part of the Microsoft BizSpark program. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. According to Club Cooee Managing Director Stefan Lemper, the application, ".enriches

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 Everybody always thinks they can do your job because they’re doing the hard work while you get to fly off to conference, speak with the press, go to fancy board meetings & dinners. Ergo I suck.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. I wish I had learned to delegate sooner, and to let go a little more. 1) I know that one of lynda.com’s current initiatives is corporate-wide training.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. I wish I had learned to delegate sooner, and to let go a little more. 1) I know that one of lynda.com’s current initiatives is corporate-wide training.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

I know lots of people think they don't have time for that, but there are those moments when you're in a coffee shop with twenty minutes of free time, or when you're plane delayed, or even if you're at a networking event or conference, and you are curious who is around you. And who knows, they might be a really good fit.

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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. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason Nazar: Legal contracts, business forms and templates, conference presentations, financial models, research reports, any kind of professional content that you have which you use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Jason Nazar: We've worked on the company for three years, and the site went live in November of 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. I filled up with 20 people pretty quickly and realized this schedule was masochistic.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The most immediate and natural extension for us is conferences since our solution fits perfectly for that industry.”. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Staying focused took a lot of self-control… takes a lot of self control. Grass is always greener…. Focus and excellence are always rewarded in the marketplace. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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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. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences. Mark Suster – GRP Partners Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Highlights included Tyler Crowley (of Sqweal and the Launch conference), Myke Armstrong and William Barnes’ presentation of Votoboth and how it’s not about badges anymore, but county fair ribbons (keep this in mind as you gamify your product).

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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. It seemed to save all of the bloggers from coming home at the end of the day from whichever conference they were attending and have to turn in long-form content like a journalist. Now we could all sleep more. So what gives?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

That means a slew of companies will be preparing to launch their new products or announcing their companies at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. So this post is about how to best craft a strategy to launch at SXSW but you could substitute most major conferences like CES if you want. SXSW is where Twitter broke out in 2007.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

Last week I attended the ad:Tech conference in my hometown, Chicago. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. © Frank Addantes FounderBlog A sharing of experiences, tales and rants of the path leading up to and including my 6th startup company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I was also deeply paranoid that a bad recession was coming (this was early 2007). Corp Dev is rapping my knuckles because I had planned to speak at the Under the Radar Conference. I had foregone my VC term sheets to accept an offer yet I knew it wasn’t 100% probability to close – it never is. Yet focused. This sucks.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We saw a continuation of 2006 and 2007, where there were too many "me-too" players. Mark Suster: Often, the times you have a venture capitalist listening to you, or a potential business partner, is at a conference. Mark Suster: I would say we were hesitant in 2008. You're racing between sessions. You need to spark their interest.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Immediately following the closing of the round I flew out to a big real estate conference in France to meet with prospective customers. I plodded through the conference and went straight to a doctor in London. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. I somehow never really felt stressed during all of this.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Second, Congress has passed the related America COMPETES Act of 2007, where COMPETES is (believe it or not) an acronym for Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science. Sylvester Reyes (D-TX), which is the STEM Promotion Act of 2007. You can affect this process. 4151 introduced by Rep.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). Many term sheets ensued.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

We turned one into a conference room and another one into a "lounge" with sofas, ottomans and comfortable, funky chairs and a flat-screen TV. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Another thing we considered was how to use the actual offices.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. If you’re reading this you’ll now likely know that I became a VC in 2007 with what is now called Upfront Ventures. What Jason has achieved in no time flat in VC is astounding.

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JULY 19, 2011

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. This morning, 7/19/11 we will hold an open Twitter conference on job creation in America. My interest was piqued.

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