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DECEMBER 3, 2013

NCR said the buy will help it form a "complete enterprise software platform" for the banking industry. Digital Insight had been acquired by Intuit back in 2007. NCR Corporation said it paid $1.65 billion for Digital Insight from Thoma Bravo, which just bought Digital Insight in July from Intuit for $1.025 billion. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2014

LiquidPlanenr said it raised $8M in a Series B funding from TVC Capital, the first venture funding in the company since it was founded in 2007. Steven Hamerslag of TVC Capital will join LiquidPlanner''s board of directors with the funding. LiquidPlanner is based in Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Providence Equity Partners had invested $100M in Hulu in 2007, and reportedly sold back its stake for $200M to the company this week. Providence had helped fund the initial efforts to start Hulu. In a statement, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar called Providence an "ideal partner" over the past five years. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Rubicon develops a cloud-based platform which enables real-time buying and selling of advertising for web publishers; the firm''s automated systems help optimize the amount of revenue earned by advertisers, by soliciting up real-time-bids for which advertisements which are presented on a web page. The company was founded in 2007.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

According to Oversee, the sale helps it to focus on its core monetization and vertical markets division. Oversee.net had acquired Moniker in January of 2008, and SnapNames in June of 2007. Moniker and SnapNames handle live domain auctions. KeyDrive S.A. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

According to The Riverside Company, it will be investing heavily to help Be Green Packaging accelerate its growth, in the areas of manufacturing, sales and marketing, and research and development. Be Green Packaging was founded in 2007, and was co-founded by Ron Blitzer and Robert Richman.

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JUNE 23, 2015

The company had launched the Walmart MoneyCard with Walmart back in 2007, helping to create one of the most successful companies backed by Southern California's angel investment groups, including the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Purch said the deal would help it expand into the SMB market. Donnelly in 2007 by Jake Winebaum, turned over to Dex.com after the sale, and eventually shut down, but restarted after a purchase by JMI Equity and Resource Nation in 2011. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Business.com was headed by Tony Uphoff.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Decker was president of Yahoo from 2007 to 2009, and served as CFO of Yahoo from 2000 to 2007. Brian Liu, co-founder and Chairman of LegalZoom, said the addition of Decker will help the firm through its next stage of growth. Intel Corporation and Costco Wholesale Corporation.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Internet Brands said the acquisition will help it bolster the lineup of travel sites its owns, including FlyerTalk, Wikitravel, and CruiseMates. The Frugal Travel Guy was foundedin 2007 by Rick Ingersoll, who Internet Brands said will continue to produce the site after the acquisition.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The company said the funding will go to help further develop diagnostic imaging agents for Positron Emission Tomography (PET). ImagineAB was founded in 2007 by three UCLA faculty. Los Angeles-based ImagineAb , a spinout of UCLA which is developing diagnostic imaging technology, reported Monday that it has been awarded $2.3M

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

I haven’t seen it this good since 2007,” he says. As head of the non-profit organization supporting local startups, Krenn says the venture group will help to bring over 150 VCs to San Diego this year, including many from Silicon Valley. That is an insane data point.” Venture data, however, only partly support Krenn’s exhuberance.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Boingo said the addition of Davis will help it as its continued to grow the company. Davis was Chairman and CEO of Fandango until its acquisition by Comcast in May of 2007, then served as EVP at Comcast Interactive Media until June of this year. He also served as President and CEO of Shopzilla.

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JUNE 12, 2013

And sometimes I feel happy to help somebody even when we’re just getting to know each other. It feels much better to be helpful than to be indebted. Be helpful. Fill your VC good will, build relationships, be helpful to them not just asking for things. It becomes easier to ask when you need help or money.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

A record number of unicorn financings—venture-backed companies valued at $1 billion or more—helped drive U.S. PitchBook, founded in 2007, can’t provide. venture funding to a total of $84.2 billion in 8,035 companies (through 8,076 deals) in 2017, according to Venture Monitor data.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. I helps me be even longer in the positions I am still in.

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MAY 15, 2013

Boggs helped open up Manatt''s Silicon Valley office in 1998 and San Francisco offices in 2007. The new digital media venture from Manatt was created by Los Angeles partner T. Hale Boggs, who is well known to local entrepreneurs as one of the digital media- and tech-focused attorneys here.

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MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. If I can help thousands with 5 minutes of my time daily — why the f**k not? I can just be me and try and be helpful. Huge thank you to Kerry Bennett and Kyle Taylor for helping me get the website off the ground. Why would a VC do that?

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APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. Greg truly is a prolific deal maker and is amongst the most helpful people to entrepreneurs in our ecosystem. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Google did not say how it expects to apply the technology, but did say it hired at least two of the engineers from winning teams of DARPA's Grand Challenge, including the technical team leader from Carnegie Mellon University on the 2007 Urban Challenge winning team, and the software lead for Stanford's team in the 2005 Grand Challenge.

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JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. It certainly has challenges.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. But we believe it is equally compelling to help existing businesses better compete with their online brethren. I wrote about him here. Take for example retailers.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs. VCs have different views and strategies on this.

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MAY 19, 2009

Santa Monica-based Business.com , which provides online directories for B2B purchasing, announced today that the firm has launched a new tool to help advertisers access pay-per-click metrics on the site. Donnelley back in 2007. Business.com is now owned by R.H. Donnelley; the firm was purchased by R.H. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

What I really liked was serving people, I really liked helping people, and in my little seven-year-old mind, that meant being a waitress. In 2007, Sarah joined Current TV. in 2007 (and) 2008 (and I realized) there is all this online video being consumed and it''s not being consumed on Current. A Foundation Of Honorable Service.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Anyone who drives cannot help but imagine not having to drive any more. 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.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Newly launched Crash is hoping to help solve that problem, by surfacing "photo-worthy" locations around you in its mobile app--sourced from its users. Erick Laubach: Originally, I started a travel startup in 2007 called Driftr. They handle legal, finance, and even design help and engineering. How did the company start?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The deal was done in late 2007.

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MARCH 11, 2009

According to the firm, it will help companies that want to create and sell ideas across broadcast TV, broadband, print or digital media. Handschiegel sold Stylediary in 2007 to StyleHive. Details on the amount of funding were not released. The firm's founder is Patricia Handschiegel, who was the founder of Stylediary.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Never was that more clear than in this short, but tear-inducing post from 2007 by Aaron Swartz , who you probably know took his life last week at the full-life-in-front-of-him-but-didn’t-feel-that-way age of 26. And this person is worthy of treatment, help, sympathy and compassion. But of course life isn’t like this.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Smith Micro said the technology covered by the patent -- titled "Detection and recompression of embedded compressed data inside existing data streams " -- helps detect and compress previously compressed data embedded in files. According to the USPTO, Smith Micro filed for the patent in February of 2007, using Craig M.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea is to help improve the function of failing livers, a stopgap measure that could extend the lives of patients on the U.S. The move represents a step toward a long-term goal that led to the formation of Organovo in 2007—of developing technology capable of bio-printing whole livers, kidneys, and other vital organs.

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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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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. Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group. It forces you to think very deeply about the problem they are solving.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

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