Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo!

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. LivingSocial.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

billion in 2008 to $11.3 We’ve already seen how Web 2.0 eHealth is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business. The market was recently forecasted to grow from $7.5-billion billion in 2013. All installments of the AeA Competitiveness Series can be downloaded for free at: www.aeanet.org/cs.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. I decided to get back to startups in August of 2008.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. It's a simple web service, where a customer can log in and can simply create and deploy any level of mobile donation or messaging campaign. It was founded three years ago, and hadn't been succeeding.

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Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium , founded in 2008, has raised close to $113 million since its inception, according to Crunchbase , although that number includes both debt and equity deals. Tags are a creature of Web analytics, generating data that enable marketing teams to determine if users viewed a Web page or e-mail. It’s been about data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds? Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs).

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Unlike many of its rivals, Sheik said Certona had raised a total of only $7 million in venture capital (in 2008) from ABS Ventures of Waltham, MA, and San Diego’s Express Ventures. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It It wasn’t about raising multiple rounds and burning jet fuel.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

The common denominator in both companies is Howard Lindzon, the Wall Street trader and hedge fund manager who founded StockTwits in San Diego in 2008. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lindzon led StockTwits as CEO until last year, and continues as chairman.

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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. Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch. But, there are not many funded players in the space.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

He said, “They need an unbiased view of the fund raising environment because there is too much misinformation and everything seems to be changing fast.&#. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. That changed dramatically at the end of 2008.

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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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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital. Vic Caretti: When I started this in 2008, I didn't even look at the business model. Vic Caretti: It's rather diverse.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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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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Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. I started a company back in 2005, a very traditional kind of startup, where we had found angel money and had gone through traditional funding. They had probably 20 or 30.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. I'm happy to say, that at the turn of the year we had several offers for investment, both from local and Silicon Valley oriented funds. It's interesting you mention fund life. Mark, thanks for the time today. Cash is king.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. So you were able to fund your growth just from customer? Talk about Telesign and what you do? How did the company start?

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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. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet. In January of 2008, we launched CalActive , which we thought might be a regional business.

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Activity Startup Sites Web 164

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We did a successful trial in 2008. Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. How is the company funded? Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

Startup 141

Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 141

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. Why the new funding round now? The interesting thing is we got our funding exclusively from angel investors.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Alex Roudi, the San Diego investor backing the Plug and Play program here, has described the local effort as a bridge to Silicon Valley, by enabling the San Diego companies to make connections and raise funding in the Bay Area.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Since 2008, Harrison Metal has invested in over 40 companies, including Aardvark (GOOG), DocVerse (GOOG), Heroku (CRM), Manymoon (CRM), MixerLab (Twitter) and ZipZapPlay (ERTS). Before Harrison Metal, Erik was most recently vice president of product management and strategy at TripAdvisor, the largest travel community site on the Web.

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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. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 I Be specific. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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? We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents.

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