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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The new kids'' content includes the opening theme of the very first episode of Sesame Street , plus 60 full episodes from starting from Season 38 (2007). Hulu said it now has hundreds of titles in its kids section, which is available only on Hulu Plus, the company''s premium subscription service. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

According to the WSJ, Amazon.com has already started connecting its users with plumbers, electricians, stereo installers, and others in Los Angeles, after they purchase specific items from the e-commerce site. READ MORE>>. amazon local service referral citygrid serviz handybook pathjoy'

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The service is suprisingly close to AnywhereCD , the now defunct San Diego startup started by MP3.com com pioneer Michael Robertson, which had offered pretty much the identical functionality back in 2007.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Anwyl had been at Edmunds.com since January of 2000, and was CEO of the company starting in 2007 until a couple of years ago. Santa Monica-based online car shopping and auto information site Edmunds.com said Friday that Vice Chairman Jeremy Anwyl has retired from the company.

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MAY 28, 2014

According to New Matter , it is hoping to bring its 3D printer to users, starting at only $149, in an attempt to make 3D printing accessible to everyone. A new, Pasadena-based startup out of Idealab , the startup incubator headed by Bill Gross, is hoping to bring 3D printing to the masses for $149.

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JULY 26, 2011

billion in deals, the highest since the financial crisis started in late 2007. According to a report from Ernst & Young, the second quarter of 2011 saw 140 potential IPOs, representing $23.7 California had 25 companies in registration as of Q2, with eight companies in Southern California.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The new financing option is not unexpected from CheapAir.com, which started accepting Bitcoin for booking flights and hotels way back in 2007. CheapAir said the interest on the new payment plan options will range from 10�30% APR based on creditworthiness. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Business.com has a long, corporate history, having started life in Santa Monica in 1999, as a $7.5M 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. Business.com was headed by Tony Uphoff.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Was this a failed idea from the start?”. 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. “How quickly did you and your team change the plan when faced with the first signs?” “Did

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JANUARY 23, 2012

The Frugal Travel Guy was foundedin 2007 by Rick Ingersoll, who Internet Brands said will continue to produce the site after the acquisition. Ingersoll apparently founded the site after retiring as a mortgage banker and starting to travel the world with his wife. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

After Techstars opened its first program in Boulder, CO, in 2007, the startup accelerator program expanded into three cities over the next four years. But then the real growth started happening. In 2011, Techstars began launching accelerators that focused on startups innovating in a specific sector in partnership with big companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2008 I started VC blogging. In 2011 I started using Instagram.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

In 2007, my company negotiated an unprecedented marketing agreement with Verizon to sell their FiOS and in turn their technicians in the field would refer Make It Work services to their customers. This week we signed a contract with Costco to roll out our services in their stores nationwide, starting with 20 in Southern California.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

It was that love of serving people that led me on my long journey of starting a company.". My mother and father started a little hardware company in Price, Utah and they turned it into a very, very successful construction company. I took that lesson of integrity and brought it with me when I started my company. That video is.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. As we've started to see certain processing services like Apple Pay and what not take shape, it's been easier to pay for things online. Marketing dollars start to go away in any difficult economy.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Interestingly enough, New Matter--whose chairman is Idealab''s Bill Gross--is the second time around on a 3D printing startup for Idealab, which was before its time with personal 3D printer company Desktop Factory, which it started bringing to market in 2007, but eventually sold to 3D Systems in 2009, well before the current 3D printing craze.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. He immediately started meeting with every eCommerce business and has a few themes on where he thinks innovation at the brand level will come. I wrote about him here. Or what TechCrunch thinks.

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JUNE 8, 2010

According to CyberDefender, it will trade under the symbol CYDE starting tomorrow, Wednesday, June 9th. CyberDefender went public via an SB-2 back in 2007. Guseinov said in a statement that the move is a "key step" in taking the company to its next phase of growth. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

San Diego-based MP3tunes , the online music locker service started by Michael Robertson, has filed for bankruptcy, according to documents posted to the web by an ex-employee. EMI sued MP3tunes in 2007, accusing the firm of violating its copyright.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

I started out this year writing about how much I hate December. So I wanted to start the year off talking about putting December behind me. In that post I started off on a tangent. But it was reported compassionately by Christina Allen in this moving piece on Pando Daily. And it got me thinking a bit. I always have.

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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. His interests include Digital Content and Distribution, AdTech, Consumer Internet, and SaaS businesses and he has deep operating experience having started and sold his last two companies.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

After starting Organovo in 2007, I spent much of the next decade as CEO seeking financing to advance our bioprinting technology. Because I stepped out of an operational role early last year, I am now in a position of providing financing to aspiring life sciences entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Huge downturns have a real impact on the revenue line of start-ups and therefore the pressure on valuations. 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.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

HauteLook is among the earlier firms in the industry, having started in December of 2007, and became profitable earlier this year. HauteLook already has lots of competition in the U.S. market from such competitors as Gilt Group, Ideeli, and Beyond the Rack.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

According to comScore, which tracks e-commerce spending, Q4 of 2008 was the first quarter of negative growth since it started tracking spending in 2001. The drop follows double digit gains throughout 2007 and the first half of 2008 in year-to-year ecommerce sales.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the group at the University of Southern California run by Krisztina Holly, and which was kick started by a major donation from Sand Hill road venture capitalist and USC trustee Mark Stevens, said Wednesday that it has appointed two directors to the institute. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 ” So it’s now March 2014 – 5 years since I started investing. years ago. I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened.

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JULY 27, 2015

I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Webb started the project in August of 2007, featuring on-site ads and a "tip jar" for viewers to contribute toward the show. According to Webb in a post on the site, the video blog is going offline after X-Play went to taping five episodes a week at the beginning of the year. Webb is based in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 13, 2010

In this video John Greathouse does a small Q&A about building what traits/roles are needed to create a strong start-up team. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Q&A: Want to learn more on this subject? Meredith Publishing.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

After that, I had the opportunity to move to Australia in 2007, and joined a venture capital firm called Starfish Ventures. In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. Back when I was doing energy investing in 2007, there were only 7 gigawatts of solar power world wide. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Other findings in the report included a ranking of patent registrations in green technology, where California held the lead with more than 458 patents between 2007 and 2009, 150 more than second ranking New York, which ahd 307 patents registered.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Our interview today is with Amos Schwartzfarb , the author of Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups , which comes out tomorrow, Wednesday. Thanks for the time today, to start off, tell us a little bit about what you do? Donnelly in 2007.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. So, they let me start StockTwits.

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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. I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter. Among the most comical things to me in the past few years is just how much it annoys some people that I use Snapchat. Why would a VC do that?

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APRIL 26, 2011

What drove you move from investing to starting up BetterWorks? I spend about twelve months before starting BetterWorks thinking about the SMB space, and the lack of tools and software for companies. Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group. Paige Craig: It was a couple of things.

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