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DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- LAVA Venture Awards Dinner. See [link].

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MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Advertisers. on April 24, 2009. Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Technology.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Advertisers. April 24, 2009. Email us at info@socaltech.com.

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MAY 18, 2010

Al is a repeat entrepreneur, who last founded Integrien, and was SVP and GM at LowerMyBills. We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic.

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APRIL 1, 2010

You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. We're very similar to OpenX, from the standpoint of ad management tools, in that we also have built in a marketplace and also allow you to go direct to advertisers. Our space is pretty young. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. In late fall and winter of 2009, it had reached 8-10 million players already. Zac Brandenberg: I've been in the advertising space, and in online advertising and interactive for much of the last ten years. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2013

PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. We've noticed many international entrepreneurs locating here recently, like yourself.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. You Can’t Sign This Deal.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

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JULY 23, 2010

We started that in 2006, and sold it to Chicken Soup For The Soul in 2009. Finally, how has the mix of your business changed--are you now more focused on the advertising end, or are you still doing the affiliate revenue ThisNext started out with? Tags: entrepreneur startup social shopping thisnext edelman matt. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2011

However, it was an idea and concept which had been brewing for awhile, and besides, I had a personal interest in starting my own company and wanting to be an entrepreneur. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros.

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JUNE 27, 2011

In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner. Part of our advertising, is we are sending people checks in the mail for $25, or $50. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. But, at the en dof the day, the value is created at the entrepreneur level.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Hire Entrepreneurs! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Hire Entrepreneurs!

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

in 2009, and through that process I learned a lot about local businesses, and about customer acquisition pain points. One of the things I heard often when doing any marketing, was that although local businesses would get customers from their advertising efforts, the didn't know when they were coming back.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Segment Four, “VC Discussion – How Should Entrepreneurs Think about ‘Strategic’ Investors?”. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. We're really excited about 2009. What we are looking for, first and foremost, is the right entrepreneur. True entrepreneurs always find a way to move the ball forward, without barriers.

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Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible? Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009. What's the story behind Ranker?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)).

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

When the market crash hit in 2009, the financing and M&A business dropped dramatically throughout the entire investment banking industry. A few years back at Montgomery, we spent a great deal of money expanding into the public capital markets, managing IPOs, hiring research analysts, etc. Unfortunately, the IPO market did not cooperate.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: How will we.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

In order to bring our product to market, rather than to try go into direct selling ourselves, or trying to create a market by advertising--which we didn't have the money to do--we started cold calling Novell resellers. Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange.

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Both Sides of the Table

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 7, 2012

2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

A web telephony pioneer and serial entrepreneur, Burr will oversee sales and marketing while expanding the range of clients served and building vendor, partner and investor relationships, according to CallFire CEO and Co-Founder Dinesh Ravishanker.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. Guest: interview with a special guest, ranging from world-reknowned business entrepreneurs to leaders in technology law and policy. She was a keynote panelist at BlogWorld 2009 and has been a guest on the Peter B.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. That's what I'm hoping to do.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

E-commerce was relatively flat in 2008 and 2009, but if you look at the lifestyle category, the biggest growing area within lifestyle was sports and outdoors. Second, we look at advertising/brand/and marketer appeal for that audience. Products are the centerpiece of everything we do.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Hire Entrepreneurs! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: How will we.

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: How will we.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible? Zondigo, Inc.

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