SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008 -- "Writing Your Press Releases" SDSIC. If you're writing your press releases like it was still 1994, you're not maximizing the value of this tool in this Internet-centric age. Dana Todd, Chief Marketing Officer of Newsforce Inc.,
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MARCH 6, 2016
In 2008 I started VC blogging. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. In 2011 I started using Instagram.
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socalTECH
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M income tax charge to write-down the value of U.S. The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M The loss came due to a $27.6M
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
Later, when I was in the tax business at Intuit and H&R Block, running those businesses, every year we had to hire a couple hundred tax professionals, who had to unwind the tax code, and who had to write it all down to give again to developers, in order for them to interpret and provide a usable product to consumers.
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2011
But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. There was also the opportunity to use our contest engine as a tool, because the challenge in daily deals is to build members and drive traffic. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
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 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).
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