TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That’s presented an opportunity for developers (or as they are more commonly called in the US, property investors) who buy up those properties and put in the work themselves to make them more sales-friendly. They operate on the principle of five F’s: “find, finance, fix, fill or flip” as Stech puts it.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. I wrote about him here. More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. Or what TechCrunch thinks.

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APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. Yet I’m always thinking about it. I keynoted.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm run by technology mogul Elon Musk, disclosed today in an email to supporters that the firm has racked up over $3 billion in revenues in its launch manifest, and has been profitable since 2007. SpaceX is selling prices of a standard flight of the Falcon 9 at $54M.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Talk about the new firm and the new fund? I'm primarily focused on energy, and a little bit on agriculture and a little bit on water, all things I know something about. Talk a bit about your background in this area? In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. Aaron Fyke: My background is mechanical engineering.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. IconFinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. What’s So Cool About Coull? In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I often talk about what I’m looking for when I meet with an entrepreneur. But without a passion for what you do I am dubious about your chances for success. If I had to put a number on it I’d say 1 in 20 pitches – maybe 1 in 30 – are by an entrepreneur who comes across as truly passionate about her project.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer? It certainly has challenges.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Organovo unveiled its plans to develop “therapeutic” tissue after showing in preclinical animal studies that bio-printed liver patches successfully grafted, formed blood vessels, and functioned normally, according to a statement today. In a statement today, Organovo said there are currently about 17,000 patients on the U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2010

According to Green, the firm is developing a system which determines, for a particular advertising impression and particular user, on a particular site and particular instance, how much that impression is worth--using a wealth of proprietary data sources drawing in information about the user, site, demographics, and other factors.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? 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. How did you start company?

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Of course everything could be replicated if a massive juggernaut like Amazon or Google wanted to pour all of their resources into it but I’m talking about technology that is hard to replicate, takes years of know-how and once adopted is significantly valuable.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We’re mostly talking about software, after all. People couldn’t help but expect a roll-out like that of smartphones, where the launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to adoption by every tech-savvy person by 2010, and the vast majority of the developed world by 2013. OK, and LIDAR, and cameras, but the software is the key.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. Thanks for the time today, to start off, tell us a little bit about what you do? Donnelly in 2007. What's the new book about?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. The Twitter pest that costs you hard earned money WTF I’m ranting about?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

<JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. What’s So Cool About Coull? Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

I think we all know by now that a conversation is happening on Twitter and that this extends to talking about brands. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook. Monitor the conversation – The first thing that businesses need to know is what is even being said about them.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups.

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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. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. I think the common denominator and the one word is ‘hustle’ .

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We caught up with CEO and co-founder Brett Rossman to learn more about the company and how it''s been able to grow, profitably, all without raising a dime of outside capital. What is ConsumerTrack all about? There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. I actually think this is a pretty innovative model. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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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. Maybe this meme will help.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

We spoke with Alex Schneider, who is managing the effort, about what the incubator is and what it hopes to accomplish. Tell us about the incubator--how long as it been around? It's about 10,000 square feet of space in downtown Ventura, in a city owned office building. What led the City of Ventura to start an incubator?

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

We recently ran into Page Howe , the Chief Engagement Officer for the.LA (www.la) domain name extension, who sat down with us and told us about why he's out making the rounds with community groups and events, promoting the use of.LA domain name, and we caught up with him to hear more about why he things everyone should get their own.LA

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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. Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

And for some reason this seems like it is seldom talked about in the press as we celebrate every check written and every name attached to them. It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. There is a downside. I assure you.

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MAY 19, 2010

In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. 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. Time will tell. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

We're currently developing applications on Facebook. Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. They launched this business in 2007, with the concept of building another virtual world and large scale game. Zac, thanks for sitting down with us today. What's the story behind Meteor Games?

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JULY 23, 2014

” The pioneering fund of funds realize that their source of differentiation is much more about the latter than the former. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. 2007 was the watershed year. But about that “bubble” we always hear about? and hasn’t abated.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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