socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. What''s the idea behind FieldLevel?

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JANUARY 10, 2016

We can often get lost in the sideshows of the political season talking a bunch of nonsense about immigration, China bashing, race baiting and overplaying social issues and fear. Honestly, the whole process is so dishonest and it’s embarrassing to see Chuck Todd deliver Trump this platform just to drive ratings. So he has a problem.”.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

alone in 2017 (not to mention the roughly 32 million consoles sold at the market’s peak in 2008), according data on the Statista website. . “What’s cool about VR and a differentiator of the medium is that it gives you embodiment,” Bennett says. ” Bennett knows a thing or two about entertainment.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

I had started keeping a personal blog (on Blogger) about family life just for my friends and family and I realized how hard it was to get even my closest family members to remember to visit there to see updated photos of the kids. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me.

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MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. What is PromoJam?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

This had an impact on the 2008 election where apparently groups of DIGG publishers would promote positive stories about Obama and negative stories about Hillary Clinton (sound familiar?). In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially. But I digress.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We spoke with Matt Kumin , the company's founder and CEO--who was formerly an executive at Edmunds.com--to learn about the company's products. What's your background, and what is PublishThis all about? I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. 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.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1

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JULY 1, 2010

Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Actually, I’ve done this!

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JANUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. Our goal and promise to consumers is to let them stay connected to all of the video they care about online, regardless of where it comes from, on any device. We hope to be on every single platform, over time. What is Frequency?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Wall Street investors, traders, financial media, and others use StockTwits to share insights and banter about investment picks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True).

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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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JUNE 10, 2013

We spoke with Dan Gilman , President and co-founder of the company, to learn more about the company, it''s market, and why healthcare information technology is such an interesting area for investors. We came out in 2008, and raised a convertible round from Slater, and did a Series A round from Javelin Ventures at the end of 2011.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. It forces you to think very deeply about the problem they are solving.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I loved every moment of our discussion other than the video angle, which I think I’ll be more particular about in the future. In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Interface with program managers about features and product roadmap.

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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. Tealium now has about 700 customers, including major companies in healthcare, financial services, travel, and technology, Lunsford said. It’s been about data.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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MAY 19, 2010

In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

One of them is online music events site Loudvine (www.loudvine.com), which was co-founded by Vic Caretti , who gave us the scoop on what the site is all about. The genesis of this, is it's all about the music. We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. What is Loudvine?

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I remember it even way back in kindergarden when my Saturday school teacher tried to tell me about Noah and Adam & Eve. And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on.

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MAY 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Nobody should celebrate, cheer or shout, “it’s about time.” ” This is about 336 people whose lives are altered and need to begin looking for work, saying goodbye to friends & colleagues and go on that journey of transition that most people dread. I put up this slide as part of my discussion. Does this suck?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Tell us about Mobile Deluxe and the types of games you develop? The cool thing about MobileDeluxe, is you can get our games on any phone in the U.S. Talk about how you went from JAMDAT to Mobile Deluxe? really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

“[It] is super competitive and great for companies looking to not only gain exposure but to learn from and see the breath of other startups and founders in the space,” said Darlene Gillard, Director of Community and Partner of digitalundivided, about the Startup of the Year competition. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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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. This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this.

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MAY 1, 2014

Adam is the very mind behind many of the business developments and the growth of Indiegogo into one of the most premier crowdfunding platforms. Adam Chapnick founded Distribber in 2008. The great news about all this is a startup was able to grab a high-profile player.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. What is Sidebar all about? We did a successful trial in 2008. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? For the new platforms and all the rest, that’s where tracking and testing comes in.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

was still a term being bandied about. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. Talk about your other titles? Prior to that, the big title at MyNUMO was Match 3D, which was a very ambitious title in 2008, and was a freebie game.

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JULY 16, 2012

Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing. If a fan know they can get their entire brand fix there, rather than having to jump across multiple profiles, multiple social media platform, and networks, that's very compelling. Jeremy Gocke: The first incarnation of the idea for Fliptu started to gel between 2008 and 2010.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. How did the idea for the company come about? That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. Tim O'Neal: I've been a computer junkie and geek since I was a gid.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We spoke to Daniel last week to learn more about his firm. What's your startup all about? Although they'd been around for three years and run out of money, we noticed in 2008 that mobile donations reached a record in the U.S. But, groups don't know how to go about it, and are being crushed by this perfect storm of problems.

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