TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. 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. KeyDrive S.A.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2016

Demand Media acquired Cracked in 2007. The sale comes as Demand Media has been seeing a steep drop in revenues from its content businesses. According to Demand Media, the move will give it a "more focused portfolio of businesses", and also "significantly" strengthen its balance sheet. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Digital Insight , the developer of online banking software which has major operations in Westlake Village, has just been sold to NCR , in the second sale of the company this year. Digital Insight had been acquired by Intuit back in 2007. NCR Corporation said it paid $1.65 READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

According to United Online, the sale is a "great outcome" for the company, and will allow it to add additional capital to its other existing businesses. United Online had acquired Classmtes.com for $100M back in 2004, and had even attempted an IPO of the unit in 2007.

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JUNE 22, 2016

domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. 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. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Nimble--which develops web-based, social contact management software--said the Outlook connection comes via Phi-solutions, which connects Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 contacts into rich social profiles on Nimble. Nimble said it now has integrated with nearly 40 software tools.

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socalTECH

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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JANUARY 10, 2013

com pioneer Michael Robertson, which had offered pretty much the identical functionality back in 2007. AnywhereCD had offered up physical CDs for sale to users, and automatically offered up MP3 albums for online streaming and download at the same time.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Sales – Many publishers, including Grit, encouraged newspaper boys to create new routes and expand existing ones by aggressively selling subscriptions to non-subscribers. This pay-per-newspaper formula directly rewarded the children’s sales efforts and sparked a life-long entrepreneurial fire in generations of newspaper boys.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The online, flash sales market for fashion is looking to a bit more crowded this week for Los Angeles-based HauteLook , as Amazon.com said that it had acquired BuyVIP.com. BuyVIP.com is a Spanish operator of a fashion and lifestyle site, which serves the European market with flash fashion sales, similar to HauteLook. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com, is threatening to sue TechCrunch , over TechCrunch's sale to AOL last month, claiming breach of fiduciary duty and constructive fraud. Arrington and Calacanis had joined together to launch TechCrunch50, a competitor to the DEMO launch conferences, back in 2007.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2008

billion, down 3 percent versus 2007. Holiday shopping on e-commerce sites declined by 3 percent, according to the latest numbers released by comScore, which tracking online spending and internet traffic. comScore reported Tuesday that spending for the holiday season, beginning November 1st and ending December 23rd, totaled $25.5

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

A new report released this morning find that retail e-commerce sales dropped in Q4 by 3 percent, as the dismal economy began to affect the online retail sector. The drop follows double digit gains throughout 2007 and the first half of 2008 in year-to-year ecommerce sales.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Gores had acquired Vincotech in December 2007, from Tyco Electronics. The company said the sale does not include Vincotech's Shenzhen, China-based electronic manufacturing services business. Vincotech is a developer, manufacturer, and distributor of power modules used in inverters, as part of industrial and solar power systems.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2010

The two said the deal will provide Acquisio's clients with ad serving capabilities, ad tracking, and ability to track their sales channel and track clicks and conversions. Green was founder of AdECN, an ad exchange purchased by Microsoft in 2007. and other firms.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Songin has been at RealD since 2007. Songin will be based in Europe, and oversee sales, customer service, and Cinema operations for the firm there. Mayson has been at RealD since 2008, and previously served at Kodak.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Financial terms of the sale was not announced. Mail.com was re-launched by Penske back in May of 2007, but since late 2008 has been buying up Internet publishing and content sites. The firm--formerly known as Mail.com Media Corporation--said it is selling off its Mail.com email service to United Internet Group , based in Germany.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

December sales at e-commerce sites are up by 7 percent from last year, despite the dismal economic conditions, according to the latest numbers released by comScore. comScore, which tracks e-commerce sales and Internet traffic, said today that sales in the first week of December (Dec 1 through Dec 7) totaled $4.45

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socalTECH

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. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. Pacific Standard every day.

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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. This step may also lead to a disruptive innovation in the future.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. from photographers and artists.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2009

According to WD, the sale is part of an effort by the firm to "realign its cost structure" to match softer demand for its products. WD's Sarawak, Malaysia facility manufactured aluminum substrates for magnetic media, and was originally part of Komag, which was acquired by WD in September of 2007.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

comScore, which measures Internet traffic and ecommerce sales, said that online spending in October of this year only grew 1 percent over last year's rates. The slowdown in online spending in is huge contrast the the year-to-year changes being seen in 2007, when comScore was reporting back-to-back, double digit growth in ecommerce sales.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, however, Teledyne said that Demo Systems had sales of $7.3M for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. Demo Systems is a designer and manufacturer of aircraft data loading equipment and software used by commercial airlines, the U.S. military and aircraft manufacturers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007. In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. Such embedded video ads are not new.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Cohu, which detailed the cost cutting moves as part of its quarterly results, said its sales dropped to $41.4M in the similar quarter in 2007. for its fourth quarter ended December 27, down from $57.1M Exact number of employees affected by the moves were not disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. Also, it’s harder to pay a $30 million pre-money value on an unproved company when you see public companies with $100 million in sales trading for less than $20 million.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2009

According to InTouch Technologies, HeadThere has agreed to cease its alleged infringing activities--including promotion and sale of its products in the US--and both companies will release each other from liability related to the litigation. InTouch Technologies sued HeadThere in October of 2007 over the alleged patent infringement.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Handschiegel sold Stylediary in 2007 to StyleHive. Handschiegel told socalTECH that the firm's projects include a redesign and positioning of an Internet site purchased from another company, and a TV project in developing and packaging it for shopping/sale; she also said that the investors in the firm are all from outside California.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2008

HTGC said that the firm received $650,000 from the sale of Teleflip, which the firm said occurred this month. HTGC had invested $1M in debt financing in June of 2007 to Teleflip. Teleflip was venture backed by GRP Partners, and apparently went out of business sometime in August after failing to find additional capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. Today we have all of my past videos with categories so you can more easily explore topics like: fund raising, HR, VC advice, negotiations, sales, marketing, etc. Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com. Why would a VC do that?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 This investment started with Dana Settle (Greycroft) and I each putting in $750,000 into a young company doing less than $1 million in sales and has blossomed into one of the fastest growing companies in Los Angeles if not the entire country. years ago.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2008

A spokesperson at CalPERS said it is not identifying funds sold in its sale on the secondary market, because of proprietary, contractual provisions against public disclosure; however, CalPERS did say that it committed $25 million in 2004 to Palomar Ventures III, L.P.,

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007. In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. Such embedded video ads are not new.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? I ended up switching to selling on Stubhub in 2007, after eBay made it much more difficult to search for tickets. The reason why, is the StubHub did a good job legitimizing secondary sale of tickets.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In addition to these utility roles, I also lead revenue generation: managing direct sales, business development and online sales. This arrangement proved very efficient, as I did not have to negotiate with a CFO when cutting sales deals nor did I have to rely on a lawyer to craft and approve contract language.

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