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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation disclosed details on the firm's venture capital funding, saying today that it has raised $35M in a round of funding led by Quadrangle Capital Partners. Daniel Rosensweig and Andrew Frey of Quadrangle will join the firm's board as part of the funding. READ MORE>>

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Sodahead.com, which operates a web site where users can ask and answer questions, share opinions, and network with other users, said that it has now recorded more than 5 million votes and 8 million comments on the site. in venture funding since its launch in September of 2007. READ MORE>>

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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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JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5 We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business.

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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. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about.

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JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. But, there are not many funded players in the space. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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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. How is the company funded? What is Sidebar all about?

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. How have you managed to build the company to the size you have without outside funding? We''re able to track everything we''re doing, and report back on it.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 For example, I was looking for web hosting, and kept on running into affiliate shills--which is a disease on the internet--where there are people who purport to talk about the best products, but are really pushing whoever is paying them the most money.

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APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The specific experience of the consumer is a video instruction guide, which is either on a manufacturer's web site, a retailer's website, or on a smart phone. We were founded in 2007, with the mission of leveraging video -- which is a much more, exact medium -- to help consumer with this problem. How the firm funded and backed?

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MARCH 4, 2009

That company was sold in 2007. There are smart phone applications coming out, there are in-bound virtual telephone number service capabilities today, and there is a web gadget software solution--which I'm using now--which allows me to visually see what's going on, on a particular phone call. How's the company funded and backed?

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AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. What is IBN Sports? The other obvious piece for us is distribution with television.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. Loren Bendele: We started in March of 2007.

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JULY 20, 2009

We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Adam Lieber: We make a web server called Jetty, which is our centerpiece, and after twelve or thirteen years of hard work is an overnight success. Where does Webtide fit into the software world? So far so good.

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MARCH 12, 2009

How is the company funded? John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. Any funding we do receive will be used for expansion initiatives. Last year, we were passively trying to get users to come to web site, experience things, and buy, this year we're going after them.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. We understand you've gotten some angel funding?

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MARCH 4, 2010

That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. Back to the company, what's your status now in terms of funding? Jason Nazar: We've worked on the company for three years, and the site went live in November of 2007. A year ago, we were around 3.5 The company is going really well.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. There are ways to use radio personalities, use their web sites, streaming, custom skins, sponsorships, contest, and all kinds of things which are somewhat labor intensive, but they work. Dave Newmark: We're still self funded.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. So it's been a year.

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