socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Having developed games for the social game market, what do you think makes a game successful or popular in this market? We found a space in the market that we felt there was an opportunity to build a great game. At the time, in 2007, Facebook had just announced they were opening up their API to third party developers.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Steffen was working in another startup called 1Calendar and studying as well. We both studied at Copenhagen business school. What were you doing before IconFinder?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Model Home, LLC, a model purchase/lease back company that worked with some of the biggest names in the home building industry, and was riding the high of housing market boom until the 2006 real estate market crash. Shortly following, PopRox was able to raise a significant chunk of money.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

I was at LegalZoom until last year, and I was the CEO of the company for its first seven years, from 2000 to 2007. I just thought there would be more of a marketing spin, but it's not. That's not just the case in LegalZoom, but many companies all around the world. I was Chairman until last year. It's more about product differentiation.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Cameron Olthuis is an Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur that owns several Internet Companies. His specialty combines social media with search engine marketing to build large media audiences on the web. Lucky is a hybrid – half agency/half production company that writes, directs and produces viral films and branded content. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. It’s a market, after all. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.” The study also found that 66% of retailers will be increasing their digital budgets in the coming year, focusing on mobile technology, faster delivery options, and easier purchase methods (e.g.,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation! Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

Smith Professorship in Land Use Studies, and the Martin V. His sharp business sense led him to sell Mid-State to Rabobank in 2007, a decision which brought one of the world’s largest banks — and its capital — into the tri-county area. Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

When a company is not in compliance, it looses its ability to sell in certain markets. Environmental Protection Agency to study trends in data-center energy use. The agency delivered a report in 2007, estimating that the IT sector consumed roughly 61 billion kilowatt-hours in ‘06, or 1.5% of the total U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson: I was doing my graduate studies at the University of Washington, and was doing things in the field of activity recognition, which is recognizing sensors and getting computers to identifying what people are doing. Our goal was to take those observations, and subsequent research, and turn that into commercial products.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2016

Regulus reported that a second serious case of jaundice, or a yellowing of the skin and eyes, in a Phase 1 study of RG-101. Regulus said the hold won’t impact timelines for its three ongoing studies of RG-101, because it has already treated the patients in those trials—two Phase 2 studies and a single Phase 1 study.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The two Founders then offered their security software for free on the Internet and it quickly became one of the most popular open-source security solutions on the market. For instance, the students who put on the fashion show had to sell the idea to the retailer, and then plan, market and orchestrate the show. What is the market?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. All of our team consists of not only composers but also for example, Karl Moestl does the creative marketing and the artist relations for us. It seems like you have an extremely diverse team.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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