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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Tony Hsieh , the founder of Zappos--and a big angel investor in Southern California startups-- has died, at the age of 46 , according to Las Vegas media. Ecomom, JetSuite, and many others, and was well known among Southern California's high tech, venture capital, and angel community. Details on the death have not been released.

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Southern California High Tech Venture Capital Media 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

7digital , a UK-based digital media firm which provides MP3 music track downloads, said Tuesday that it is expanding its North American operations, and is opening up new offices in Los Angeles. Nauman is based in Los Angeles. Nauman has also served at CrossBorderWorks, Seattle radio station KEXP, and RealNetworks.

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Los Angeles Angel Media Company 145

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 -- New Media Vault. Join us for the best downtown Los Angeles new media networking event! This month we're getting ready for Turkey Day  gobble gobble gobble! Don't miss out on our last chance to hang before we usher in 2010! See [link] (more).

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Media Los Angeles Networking Angel 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. And now everybody is an angel.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 23, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 -- New Media Vault Twiistup Kickoff Party! Two times a year, Twiistup brings together Los Angeles' technology, media and entertainment communities, but unlike traditional conferences, Twiistup mixes it up with tunes, video, beverages, swag and the unexpected.

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Twiistup Media Conference Entertainment 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 19, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- New Media Vault. Welcome to the East Sides first New Media Networking Event in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Media Los Angeles Design Networking 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). But while I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders I can’t see the logic that this extends to angel investors. Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 28, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009 -- New Media Vault May. Welcome to the East Sides first New Media Networking Event in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Media Los Angeles Design Networking 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2018

According to the firm, Eddie Lazarus, who was most recently General Counsel and Chief Strategy Officer for Tribune Media Company from 2013 to 2018, will join the company in Santa Barbara on January 2nd. Lazarus also previously was Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from June 2009 to Feb.

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Santa Barbara Los Angeles Activity Report 113

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles CTO Hire CTO Coach Develop 150

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based Total Beauty Media , the online beauty site run by Emrah Kovacoglu, said today that it has relaunched BeautyRiot.com , the celebrity hairstyle and beauty site it acquired in 2009. Total Beauty acquired BeautyRiot in March of 2009. Total Beauty acquired BeautyRiot in March of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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Sites Media Content Los Angeles 140

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Networking CTO Coach Angel 150

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2011

Los Angeles-based Social Blaze , a provider of web analytics and social media management software, has been acquired by digital agency MartinJAY Digital. Social Blaze was founded in 2009 by Cassie Rice. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Social Media Web Los Angeles Acquisition 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based dating app developer Tinder has acquired Chill , the maker of Tappy, a Snapchat-like instant messaging service which revolves around photo sharing. back in 2009. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. As part of the buy, Tappy will shut down. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint Snapchat Acquisition Los Angeles 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

My dear friend Debbie Landa, supreme queen of DealMaker Media is hosting another kick ass event in Los Angeles, and… I’M GIVING AWAY A TICKET TO THE EVENT (keep reading below). VC Outlook 2009: If You Need Funding You’re Fuc%ed ( or are you ) - Candid Talks with VCs in Los Angeles. DECEMBER 2, 2008.

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Rustic Canyon Los Angeles Venture Capital Tsavo 41

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Clicker.com , the provider of a guide to online video, has been acquired by CBS Interactive , the firms said Friday. CBS said that Clicker Media will become part of CBS Interactive'roster of properties. The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009.

Redpoint 140

Redpoint Guide Acquisition Los Angeles 140

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

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. Media relationships. Los Angeles' That feeling happens 2-3 times per year maximum. Hamet had the perfect combination: Smarts.

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Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Both years were well above 2009, which had a low of only $475M in exits. The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp.

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Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Report Riot Games 187

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M received in the region in Q1 of 2009. across 31 days.

Southern California 208

Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 -- LINC Bizdev Lunch. LINC BizDev is a special interest group of business development and sales professionals at interactive media and technology companies in Los Angeles. See [link] (more).

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LINC Los Angeles Sales Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In the past 5 years some of the best investors in the country could simply anoint winners by giving them large amounts of capital at high prices and then the media hype machine would create awareness, talent would race to join the next perceived $10bn winner and if the music never stops then everybody is happy. Except the music stopped.

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 9, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009 -- Common Mistakes Before Starting a New Business. A Town Hall hosted by Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc, aimed at contributing to the Los Angeles Technology Scene by bringing together various entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, social media experts, and professionals in the technology field.

Social Media 100

Social Media Los Angeles Media Entrepreneur 100

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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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based SheKnows , the online women's media site owned by AtomicOnline, has shown up in the top 10 list of gaining properties, based comScore's latest ranking of web visitors today. Tags: sheknows atomiconline comscore media content internet unique traffic. READ MORE>>.

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AtomicOnline Web Content Media 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 -- Games Go Social. With all of the major console and PC video game companies in Los Angeles (Electronic Arts, Activision, THQ, Blizzard), it only makes sense to discuss how more and more games are bringing in aspects of social media to enhance game play.

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Electronic Arts THQ Activision Social Media 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2009

According to a report in the Los Angeles Business Journal, the lawsuits stems from the firing of three of four of the firm's founding partners--Doug, Jason, and Adam Walker--by CEO Zac Brandenberg and investment firm Kayne Anderson Private Investors, L.P., Tags: online advertising media hydra. which controls the company's board.

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Beverly Hills Journal Advertising Los Angeles 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We spoke with Aaron--a veteran of both clean technology investing, as well as former CEO of a number of clean technology companies here in Los Angeles--on the new fund. Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. social media, and everything else.

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Invest Capital Venture Capital Idealab 113

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. That's really what Social Media 2.0

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 Interestingly enough, that area of perpetual interest for the Los Angeles area--Content and Media--only garnered $10.68M in funding during the quarter.

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Southern California Invest Westlake Village SoCal 196

StartUp Beat

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

StartupBeat, founded in 2009 in Los Angeles, is a media company focused on covering startups and why they matter in our lives. Global Media: $999. PR & Media Support. Contact our team at info@startupbeat.com for PR & Media support. – Partner with StartupBeat.

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Advertising SEO Media Los Angeles 40

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 11, 2009

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 -- AccessEN. He is a digital media consultant with clients in virtual worlds, IPTV, broadband networks, and VOD. Digital Entertainment Veteran Leonard Washington. Interested in gaining insights from the world of digital entertainment? See [link] (more).

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Paramount Entertainment Class Media 100

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2009

in 54 venture capital deals, with Los Angeles reporting $115.6M The largest deal for Los Angeles was $15M in a funding for Buzz Media. The largest deal for Los Angeles was $15M in a funding for Buzz Media. Tags: 2009 county orange diego angeles california southern capital venture. in 67 deals.

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Venture Capital Orange County Capital Southern California 100