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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Burbank-based Deluxe , the provider of post-production, distribution, asset management, and related services to Hollywood, said today that it has acquired B2B, cloud software provider mediapeers. Mediapeers was based in Berlin, and had been founded in 2007. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2011

In essence, the Beatles offered a product with a higher value proposition as compared to their American counterparts. Minimally Viable Product Does Not Mean Minimal Utility. Much has been written regarding the benefits of crafting a minimally viable product (MVP) as a means of accelerating the product validation process.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 7, 2019

The San Diego-based biotech has been working since 2007 to use a method known as bio-printing to come up with such a product, which Organovo (NASDAQ: ONVO ) was developing for patients with end-stage liver disease and a group of rare diseases that also necessitate organ transplantation.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

According to BitTitan, the funding was led by TVC Capital, and also included Tao Capital Partners, and was the company's first funding since it was foundedi n 2007. BitTitan's flagship product is MSPComplete, which is used by managed service providers to sell and service cloud services. BitTitan is based in Kirkland, Washington.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based Total Beauty Media Group , the beauty products focused site founded by Emrah Kovacoglu, has been acquired by Evolve Media , and will become part of Evolve''s TotallyHer division. Total Beauty provided online content focused on beauty, including a large database of reviews of beauty products. million monthly users.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2015

Rubicon Project--which trades as RUBI on the NYSE--said CEO, Founder, and Chief Product Architect Frank Addante will ring the bell at 4:00 p.m. Addante founded Rubicon Project in 2007. READ MORE>>. rubicon project merger acquisition nyse rubi advertising technology software exchange'

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Los Angeles-based Nimble announced a new link into Microsoft Outlook, as well as a number of other products, via new additions to the firm's App Marketplace. Nimble also said it has connected its software into ActiveCampaign, an email marketing platform, and QuoteRoller, software which streamlines and automates sales processes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Be Green Packaging''s environmentally friendly products and packaging are based on materials like bamboo, bulrush, wheat straw, sugarcane and rice husks. Be Green Packaging was founded in 2007, and was co-founded by Ron Blitzer and Robert Richman. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Krillion's site offers up a product search service which show prices and availability of products in local stores based on a user's location. Local.com's new patent was filed in April of 2007; inventors named on the patent are Roger B. Spreen, Michael S. Robertson, Michael J. Van Riper, and James J.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2014

To kick off the effort, New Matter has launched a new indieGogo pre-order campaign for the product, which New Matter said was co-designed with frogVentures, and is venture backed by First Round Capital and Alsop Louie, as well as Idealab, frogVentures, Biotechonomy and angel investor Scott Banister.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2011

Ziff Davis said that LogicBuy.com had over 10 million visitors in 2010, and provides deals and coupons on technology products and services. LogicBuy was founded in 2007 by Thai Than. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A little history, we launched our product years ago, Search IQ. That product right now is on 2,000 publisher websites, it's sold under the SaaS model, and a lot of people on the free, ad-supported version. I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2011

Founder Fred Luddy becomes Chief Product Officer. Slootman was the CEO of Data Domain, having taken that firm public in 2007, and selling the firm to EMC in 2009, where he served as a division executive. He also has served at Compuware and Borland Software.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud computing products headed by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding round. Morphlabs develops products used to manage the deployment of cloud-based infrastructure. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Poway-based BridgeSTOR , a new data backup and storage appliance firm headed by storage veteran John Matze, has emerged from stealth today, saying that it is offering products aimed at advanced data reduction for VMware and backup. Matze, who was involved in developing the iSCSI protocol, was the founder of both Siafu and Okapi Software.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Westlake Village-based Intuit Financial Services , the arm of personal finance software maker Intuit, said Tuesday that it has published a survey showing that about one third of Americans are now using online banking software using online products, up from 27 percent a year ago.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2011

The firm filed the patent in March of 2007, and it was granted earlier this week on January 25th. Covario said the patent covers its use of a weighted algorithmic formula that measures a brand or product's likelihood of ranking high on search engine pages. Covario was represented by Cooley LLP in the patent filing.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Ninness re-joins the company from Adobe, where he was a Group Product Manager. Ninness was formerly Lynda.com's Director of COntent from 2005 to 2007, and has also served at Microsoft and Extensis.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

The company attributed the growth to both its large network of theater screens--it recently added AMC Theaters, Regency Theatres, and others to its network--plus its mobile and social products, and its coverage of movie news and film reviews. Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2010

According to the companies, Thomson Reuters will allow users of its ScholarOne Abstracts product the ability to capture live meetings, and share their content via SciVee. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2020

It is up to management to scale development, marketing and production based upon resources available. Add the economic environment to the mix of reasons for failure, including jolts such as the Great Recession of 2007-8 or COVID’s devastation to travel, retail and other personal experience-based businesses. Including cash.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

New Matter said the funding will go towards accelerating product development efforts. The funding was led by Alsop Louie Partners, and also included Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures. New Matter said it is on the brink of shipping its 3D printer, the MOD-t, this spring.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Nova Development will provide both development and marketing of the title, including integrating the retail boxed software with Ancestry.com's current online products. Nova Development was acquired by Avanquest in 2007.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2011

The two did not discuss terms of the agreement, but did say they have agreed not to pursue infringement actions against each other, or against third parties based on each others' products, for a period of five years. Broadcom bought Global Locate in 2007; CSR acquired SiRF in February of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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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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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Oracle said that Sophoi's products will become available as Oracle Media Intellectual Property Management. Sophoi's product was used for intellectual property management at media and entertainment companies. Los Angeles-based Sophoi , a developer of media IP mananagement software, has been acquired by Oracle, Oracle said Monday.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. But my take is this: We know that B2C crowdsourcing of tasks and products has started to play a transformative role in our economy from everything from Uber to Airbnb to TaskRabbit to DogVacay. I wrote about him here.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

San Diego-based Entropic Communications , a publicly held developer of semiconductors used in home entertainment and consumer electronics products, reported today that it had an increase of 56 percent in its second quarter net revenues, compared with last year. The firm said it earned $3.1M it had in Q2 of 2009, when it lost $4.3M.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2010

According to the firms, the two will provide an integrated search and display marketing product. Green was founder of AdECN, an ad exchange purchased by Microsoft in 2007. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. Acquisio said it manages more than $450M in ad spending for such firms as Yellow Pages Group, SEO Inc.

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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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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2015

He joined the firm in 2007 after having previously worked with Upfront Ventures for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Before joining Upfront Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO. Mark Suster is a Partner at Upfront Ventures.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 12, 2010

PANELISTS: Anthony Astarita Vice President, Digital Products, Barnes and Noble Anthony Astarita joined Barnes and Noble in 1998 and was appointed vice president of digital products in 2007. Wednesday, August 18, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents: E-Books New Industry Making Big Waves - What Happens Next?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

In addition, a number of advertisers have invested significant resources into creating libraries of video content which effectively communicate brand and product attributes but are incapable of eliciting a particular action, such as: clicking to a landing page, completing a lead form, or initiating a purchase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Or find an entirely different application for an existing product.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. We started working in stealth mode on the product, and built the product and got it working.

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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. Can a deal get done?

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