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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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JULY 9, 2012

The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. So last fall we started a spring clean , and since then we’ve closed or combined more than 30 products”. Google has from late last year embarked on an in-house cleaning project.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. In 2009, we immediately approached the law firm market because we knew it so well, and because we had lots of relationships from over the years. We'll also be building up new and exciting products.

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JULY 31, 2013

Years before Hello Flo’s “The Camp Gyno” video existed, in 2009, Orabrush, a tongue cleaner company, was setting the precedent for what would be how to make a million dollars in ecommerce sales utilizing YouTube marketing. 12,000 people signed up in the first 48 hours after the Dollar Shave Club video went live in 2012.

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OCTOBER 21, 2012

The names “Embark” and “Journey” relate to how our products are used by companies who have distributed workforces that go out to all sorts of places “in the field” where they provide services. Embark Mobile has been building and delivering mobile implementations to businesses since 2009.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. Finally, the last thing, is what is the idea and product you are trying to build.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). So I send Byron any SaaS investment I do at the earliest stage where I know we’ve nailed product / market fit. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8

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APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. Most funds get annual extensions.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— Swift Navigation , founded in 2012 and now based in San Francisco, is using real-time kinematic (RTK) technology to enhance the precision of satellite-based GPS positioning data. Their customers are the agronomists (or the drone service providers hired by agronomists) responsible for analyzing and improving crop productivity.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Talk about what your products are used for? Kian Saneii: We formally launched in 2009, but I started looking at the market in 2008, to see what applications were out there. But, if you can even delay that for one month, that pays for a lifetime of our product. Kian Saneii: 2012 is a big year for us.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. The current iteration of what we are doing now has been around since 2012. We were doing this one product called “Small Business Hires”, similar to the employer app we launched today, all web-based. We have been able to develop a good product.

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MARCH 2, 2012

After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. Once art had left my team, I had no control over the final product and it was creating too much tension. Rocksauce Studios treats our projects the same way a start-up company would treat that product. It simply makes more sense.

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JULY 16, 2012

CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. He joined WebVisible, a leading provider of local online marketing software and services, as chief operating officer in 2009 and was elevated to CEO in 2010.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

From the start he saw the power of technology to augment social interaction and began forming an interactive collective which led to it’s spin off and incorporation as Syyn Labs, LLC in 2009, and gained quick notoriety for their RGM music video collaboration with OK Go. He is featured in this months LA Weekly for the “Best of LA People 2012?

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AUGUST 30, 2010

trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. Deflation is crippling because as consumers expect products to be cheaper tomorrow they hold off purchasing every month to see what happens leading to a negative spiraling economy.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Idea Mensch.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. The first online marketplace for successful Kickstarter, maker & hardware startups products. Fun fact: iWaboo Group was founded in 2012 as a pure retail company that owned gadget concept stores in Italy. Cirrus Identity. iWABOO Inc .

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