socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. What is Burstly? Our space is pretty young. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. How is the firm funded? Elizabeth Amini: We're privately funded by the founders. But, we never were looking for funding.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. How's the company funded?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. We did a successful trial in 2008. How is the company funded?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. I Be specific. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. What should I do?’.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web. I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. came to engineer and serial entrepreneur David Kaiser (Founder and CEO) in 2008 while surfing on his laptop while watching TV. has accomplished.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. How is the company funded and backed? There are hundreds of ways to do that, through merchandise, advertisements, sales of DVDs, content, and so forth.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

So, in February of 2008, I started the website, and it caught on. It gives them preferential placement, but this is not an advertising model, because we do not guarantee them placement. Adi Jaffe: Our next step is really trying to get some angel level funding. It's not you pay us this much, and you'll show up this many times.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. Internet advertising is good. No, it’ Startup 2.0:

Advertising 40

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. Advertising was the answer! No, it’ Startup 2.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. We've obviously toyed with advertising and sponsorship as well. How long has Bccthis been around? Finally, what's in your plans now?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. No, it’ Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we.

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. No, it’ Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

The National Science Foundation mainly funds professors to do research. Government-owned venture capital funds, like the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel ( [link] ) or the USDA's former AARC may be a great hybrid strategy (government-owned, private appearance). One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0"

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. He is currently CEO of ThisWeekIn.com , a web television network he co-founded with Jason Calacanis and comedian/actor Kevin Pollak. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008. Michal Braun.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Commercial Search.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. Yesterday was a Monday. Depressing.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. He is responsible for bringing in revenue from advertising and their careers offering. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. He then went on to work at Viacom and Juno in NYC. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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