TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Interestingly, that demand has grown a lot during the pandemic, with demand for new homes as much as four times higher than demand for buying “existing” homes. ” That subsequently has put more of an emphasis on the sale of older homes to meet demand.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

Netflix is the most innovative content creation and distribution company of the last decade, leading the way in streaming since 2007 and changing the original content game with House of Cards in 2013,” said Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell, co-founders of Impact, in a joint statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. The firm's stock had held its own, having recovered so far from last year's market downturn. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2009

According to WD, the sale is part of an effort by the firm to "realign its cost structure" to match softer demand for its products. WD's Sarawak, Malaysia facility manufactured aluminum substrates for magnetic media, and was originally part of Komag, which was acquired by WD in September of 2007.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

in the similar quarter in 2007. The firm said that the global financial crisis has results in "sharply reduced demand" for semiconductors, which has affected the firm's customers. Cohu, which detailed the cost cutting moves as part of its quarterly results, said its sales dropped to $41.4M

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2019

Some people call this the emergence and development of a new type of leader, called the algorithmic leader, who can steer the course through the world of big data, machine learning, and the constantly changing demands of new customers and social trends. Only your human element can imagine what life might be like in ten years.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

There is no real room for negotiation, or to let demand drive the pricing on the buyer side. I ended up switching to selling on Stubhub in 2007, after eBay made it much more difficult to search for tickets. If you imagine, a promoter might manage Britney Spears in 50 cities, and all those cities have different demand and price points.

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Startup 253

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Mr. Alinsky incited his followers to demand something for nothing. Mr. Alinsky would demand that I cut slices from my pie and give them to people who did not make an effort to create a pie of their own. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Such thievery is the antithesis of the entrepreneurial approach of creating something from nothing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. As I like to tell people who ask about Bird, “consumers have literally voted with their feet.” Is Bird really defensible?

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

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 can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Mr. Alinsky incited his followers to demand something for nothing. Mr. Alinsky would demand that I cut slices from my pie and give them to people who did not make an effort to create a pie of their own. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Such thievery is the antithesis of the entrepreneurial approach of creating something from nothing.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. Although it can be challenging to meet the demands of an open source business model, the benefits are also tremendous, especially in the area of partnerships.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We have a checklist of about forty things we go through, to make sure the market is big enough, and figure out how much demand consumers have for a product, and how much organic and paid traffic we can actually drive to a website to acquire a consumer. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Contextual Robotics Institute will be looking to spin out startups, license its technology advances, and educate students who can meet the tech industry’s enormous demand for robotics experts. Henrik’s expertise is more in academics,” Hylton said. Mine are in business and government.”. Before joining Brain Corp.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

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Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

Loren Bendele: We started in March of 2007. We were able to sit in the middle of that, and benefit from both demand and the supply of deals. There is so much demand from consumers, merchants are hungry for sales, and we're all trying to understand how to manage deal and promotion strategy. What's the story behind Savings.com?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

It's pretty typical in the life of a startup, where we've proven we have a product people like, and use and demand, and can scale, and we did a pretty effective job of learning about advertising and making revenues off high yielding, CPC advertising. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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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. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

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. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. How about mergers and acquisitions?

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus , Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it. The thing is, it's a very demanding audience, even when you're talking about apps that are free with in-app purchases. Even then, users are very demanding. We paid attention to user behavior, and Poker 2 went live.

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Mobile Software Review Startup 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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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2012

In 2007, I then took some time in France and spend some time in grad school in Europe, then rallied the band with my co-founder and first hires at BetterPPC to start another company, which we sold last year. Matt Munson: We tested demand for this concept, and had about 400 people sign up in 72 hours. It hasn't been an issue at all.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. We're also focused on expanding beyond deals, and recently re-launched our white label, contest engine under the brand ArtistHub.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On Demand). 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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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

Many collectors, whose primary goal was to complete their collections, were content to have an Excellent or even a Very Good card, which ensured broader demand for lesser grade cards. The advent of investors and grading services drove up the demand for near-perfect cards while suppressing the value of all other cards.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. it's every bit as demanding at DonateGames. How long has the organization been around? We really started operations towards the middle of 2009.

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Pricing Help Sites Startup 183

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra).

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. Unfortunately it seems that it was back-ordered due to strong demand with rumors of it selling for astronomical prices on eBay. So for Hanukkah I asked for the FitBit.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

UnVCs do not demand that entrepreneurs pursue such winner-take-all strategies. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. When entrepreneurs feel they serve at the whim of their investors, trouble (especially for the entrepreneurs), usually ensues. Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneur Invest Funding Capital 157

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Mark Tapling: Since you last did an in depth interview with us in 2007, the company has doubled in size. As the effective nature of our output become more widely known, the demand grows, and there are now customers across Europe and new agencies in the U.S. What's new with Language Weaver? who have recognized this.

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USC Software Review Content Customer 145

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Although some of the new workers are likely needed to fulfill the one-hour delivery demands of its new Prime Now service, Amazon obviously anticipates yet another strong holiday performance. The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.”

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