Renewable Energy Education Forum
SoCal Tech Calendar
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009 -- Renewable Energy Education Forum. of Planning and Building in a public panel to discuss the companies' proposed solar facilities.
Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2010
Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Have a look at the companies below.
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2U Raises $120M In IPO
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2014
2U , an online education company which has significant operations in Los Angeles, has had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market, debuting Friday morning as TWOU. 2U was previously known as 2tor, and first raised funding back in 2009 , when Redpoint was a very active Los Angeles area investment firm. percent at 13.95
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SoCalBio Human Resources Conference
SoCal Tech Calendar
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009 -- The 3rd SoCalBio Human Resources Conference.Organized annually by the Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio), this HR conference provides a forum for information sharing among HR executives in device and biotech companies, HR service providers, bio-recruiters, educators, and workforce training professionals (..)
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Lynda.com's Growth Trajectory: Revenues Doubled In Last 3 Years
socalTECH
JANUARY 16, 2013
The massive, $103M funding round for Carpinteria-based Lynda.com might have been a surprise for some, except perhaps readers of this publication, who over the years have gotten a glimpse of the growth rate of the company in recent years. 2009, $37M. Oct 2010, $50M - 140 employees. May 2012, $70M. January 2013, $100M - 400 employees.
2009, a new year for innovation
AeA Los Angeles Council
JANUARY 7, 2009
We are challenged by the economy; education; security; health care and government management, and now all of this is converging with the seating of a new Congress and the inauguration of a President. It’s time to have your voice heard (Yes, that means you -- the tech exec reading this blog!)
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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011. READ MORE>>.
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Hydra Looks Up, With Funding In Hand, Legal Troubles Behind
socalTECH
JANUARY 22, 2010
In an interview with Mason Wylie , SVP of Marketing, and Gary Cooperman , CFO of the firm, the two executives explained that the restructuring came because the firm decided to set its sight on bigger companies. How does the firm hope to attract more large brand advertisers?
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165 Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 18, 2014
Yet along with “authenticity” they are two of the key attributes I look for when I meet with companies I may consider funding one day. This is how Upfront Ventures came to fund Tristan Walker – one of the most talented and passionate entrepreneurs with whom we work whose new company is called Bevel. It wears you down.
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Reflections on 2016: Lawrence Ng, OnRamp Fund
socalTECH
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Two good examples are children's entertainment company (Spin Master) which launched an AR drone-racing game for the holiday season. The company won numerous awards during his tenure as CEO. While flying a drone is fun, adding an AR element and a virtual world takes things to the next level. It combines innovation and entertainment.
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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Online text book rental service. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.
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217 This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.
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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace
socalTECH
JULY 10, 2017
There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. You've done this before in other industries--what led to new company?
The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. So he decided to start his company in Canada.
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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. Yesterday was a Monday. Depressing.
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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about?
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Tech.Co Has Been Acquired by Global Digital Media Business
Tech.Co
JANUARY 15, 2018
has been acquired by MVF , an international publishing and tech company. MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co They opened an office in Austin, Texas and have expanded their workforce to over 400 staffers.
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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 22, 2010
One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. With Huddle, you can manage people, projects and information inside and outside your company, securely.&#. I always worry about companies that spread themselves too broadly. So Skype was ubiquitous.
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2009 Coming To A Close, 2010 Just Around The Corner!
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 9, 2009
All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy. . The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0
How Tuition.IO Is Helping To Tame Student Debt, One Employee At A Time
socalTECH
MARCH 8, 2016
Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.
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How Liferay Grew To More Than $100M After Starting In A Church Basement
socalTECH
APRIL 5, 2017
Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. How did the company start?
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169 How Do You Know if You Have the Right CEO to Run Your Business Until the End?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 25, 2015
Many people don’t know that I actually became Chairman of my first company and relinquishing the CEO role before the company was sold. In it he talks about the skills of willing an idea into existence and whether those are the same skills to take the company to the next level. In other words, Why now?
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This Entrepreneur Fought America’s Toughest VCs… And Won
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
There''s just simply no way that the founder or the management or anyone with equity in the company, besides the investor with a six-x liq pref (liquidation preference), could make any money. So we started out with an objective of helping launch a thousand meaningful and enduring technology companies a year. In Adeo''s words, ".
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Chrome River: Building An Enterprise Software Leader In LA, with Dave Terry
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2015
A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What's the background on the company, and how did you start?
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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 14, 2014
It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. It’s why opt-in marketing databases can be so incredibly valuable for companies like Gilt Groupe, One King’s Lane and AdoreMe. Higher education. Much more data in the full post.
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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?
InfoChachkie
MARCH 5, 2012
In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. The money that went into them was usually very inefficiently deployed because it was deployed against infrastructure, it was deployed against a longer arc of build-up and you were into a company a while before you knew whether something was going to work or not.
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Open Source Business Model
SoCal CTO
MARCH 5, 2007
However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models.
5 Tips For Attracting Female Customers
Tech.Co
JANUARY 10, 2018
In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. A company can have the best marketing message, tactile strategy, and more, for their product, but it’s important to gain a deeper understanding of the target market.
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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 16, 2012
CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.
Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu
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. Lucien’s goal is simple, to completely redesign education.
Tech.Co Has Been Acquired by Global Digital Media Business
Tech.Co
JANUARY 15, 2018
has been acquired by MVF , an international publishing and tech company. MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co They opened an office in Austin, Texas and have expanded their workforce to over 400 staffers.
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Tony Hsieh is the Seller of Dreams | Enter the Downtown Project
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
There’s no single pattern or sign that sparks startup culture; it doesn’t necessarily depend on history or one giant company pushing through. That money is being distributed across real estate, educational, and local business redevelopment, as well as moving Zappos into the old City Hall in downtown Las Vegas.
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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe
socalTECH
MAY 14, 2010
A lot of people had asked me why I was taking the job, since I was a commercial guy, had been a commercial general manager, and had been running companies for my whole career. Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. They asked me why I was interested in a nonprofit?
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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018
Tech.Co
MARCH 8, 2018
Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. She’s also an advisor and connector to portfolio companies, and consults other angel groups to develop business plans. Blackwell, iTech Program Executive & OCT Innovation Liaison, NASA.
What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000. Some companies should raise less money and consider early exits – We had a discussion about whether companies should raise less money and have smaller goals for an exit. We all know that.
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Social Networking and Business Value
SoCal CTO
MAY 15, 2009
Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media?
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150 Interview with Scott Sangster, Tech Coast Angels
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
As the markets went down, just like any other investor, they were very conscious of investing more carefully--but, that said, it also meant that there seemed to be more entrepreneurs, for various reasons, were newly interested in starting companies. We invested all through 2009, and are currently seeking investments to do in 2010.
INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective
AeA Los Angeles Council
JULY 7, 2008
Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.
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45 Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.
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191 Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. We're the first company to close the loop on ads. What's the idea behind Sometrics?
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113 Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. We're the first company to close the loop on ads. What's the idea behind Sometrics?
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100 Carpooling Wants You To Share Your Car, Meet New Friends & Get Paid For It!
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. The majority of our users are highly educated, young professionals between 25-39 years of age. Daimler AG and European VC firm Earlybird are strategic investors in our company. Company fast facts can be accessed here. Any user stats?
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82 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of
SoCal Delicious
MAY 6, 2012
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. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Thank you @eminutes. .
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78 US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. companies did not participate in the first phase and consequently were not in the running for all that followed. Sound familiar?
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