TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In recent months the company has inked agreements with Disney — taking over development duties on some of the company’s games like Disney Emoji Blitz and signing on to develop new ones — and launching new games in conjunction with other famous franchises like Harry Potter.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2013

According to Qualcomm, former Ambassador Clark Randt is currently president of Randt & Company, and also serves on the boards of Valmont Industries and United Parcel Service. Randt had been ambassador to China from 2001 to 2009. READ MORE>>. qualcomm ambassador china executive wireless telecom'

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 29, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009 -- Gold Coast Business Forum's 2009 Summer Social. An evening of drinks, food, and a special treat; an interactive experience hosted by Santa Barbara Chocolate Company (a taste experience featuring varieties of chocolate from around the world). See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2012

We caught up with Sam Altman, the firm's founder, to hear more about the company, and how we went from working in private equity to heading up a company all about finding nightlife. Sam Altman: PartyEarth is a global media and entertainment company. Sam Altman: We launched in November of 2009. What is PartyEarth?

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 6, 2009

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 -- Dealing with a Down Economy Pt. n response to current economic pressures, companies are forced to quickly rethink their ways of operating and learn new groundrules. This first in the series panel Doing More with Less provides insights and experiences from panelist on the following issues: 1.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu? In 2009, I was convinced the time was right.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). So why did Larry need to return?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 -- MOTM Orange County. Our speaker will be Kurt Daradics, co-founder of MOTM, who will be sharing about his experience winning third place at TechCrunch50 in Sept 2009. Paul Mobley leads the first Meeting of the Minds in Orange County.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Experience is a great teacher. Find a niche market where you have unique insight.

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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. He’s founded 3 companies and I’ll bet he has 3-5 more in him. The idea immediately resonated. So he had had a taste of it.

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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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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

According to numerous local CEOs, startup executives, and recruiters, the number of open positions for technical--and other-- talent at local companies has surged in recent months, and there's a wild scramble to find the right employees. At that time, he said he was able to. However, she confirms that potential employees are harder to find.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

According to ICYou, it will use magnify360 to personalize the shopping experience for Interactive City, a virtual world run by ICYou. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed by the companies. The firms said that the virtual world is set for launch in winter of 2009.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

It is your responsibility as a company leader to communicate a winning long-term strategy, and then put into the place the incentives to drive team behavior to deliver on the strategy. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share. Maintaining digital transformations through a downturn.

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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. When Eric departed to pursue other things, a new partner stepped in with years of experience building and running community and product teams at AOL.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Eventually a successful startup will grow into a big company. Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” The company hasn’t really reached ‘ escape velocity ‘ which means it must not be working.”

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 28, 2009

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 -- Dinner for Decision Makers. The resulting efficiencies and improvements are felt throughout the company. Enjoy dinner and hear a panel of CI experts and their client organizations share their real life CI experiences with you. TechAmerica. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup. We sold the company to NBC, to form NBCi, which we merged with Snap.com where I was before.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 15, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 -- Expanding Business with Social Media. Social media is rapidly changing the way companies do business.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. Zac Brandenberg: The company had a lot of success with Island Paradise, which grew very rapidly. How did the firm start? Why the interest in that area?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 -- Maximizing Value Through Strategic Product Marketing. This valuable program will unlock the secrets of true product management, and enable you to harness its full potential to drive dramatic improvements in your company?s s capital efficiency, market traction and valuation.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. You only build what you need to prove that model.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 29, 2011

The company was struggling and it would be a challenge for them to bring in a new developer who could readily build upon his partially completed codebase. In addition, he had taken a pay cut at Startup A in 2009 and was accruing a note payable equal to his back pay. He was concerned that he might never be paid if he left.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

To handle this process, I found a hokey company in Westlake Village, home to Countrywide’s HQ and a plethora of mortgage “professionals.” I’d call from time to time but I had more informative and productive conversations with my hedges than anyone at Countrywide or hokey loan mod company. I never made a payment.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

I tragically lost my mom to cancer, my girlfriend (who I was living with at the time) and I broke up, and then my team and I were laid-off when the market crashed in 2009. Until I was fortunate enough to secure a job with Ron Burkle at the end of 2009. We're not going to be investing in a B2B or analytical company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. What types of companies are you making investments in? We're looking for companies past the market validation stage, but are trying to figure out the growth stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. And as I always assert, “Great companies are built in downturns. And it’s when mediocre companies get pulverized.” I remember, for example, when business intelligence swept through companies globally. It’s when the game slows.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

When we started the company, we wanted to make it the next generation, social video game developer. What is the story behind the company? Jonathan LaCour: What's different for Playzon, from other mobile developers, is we're focused on the user experience, and making it as close to the console or PC experience as possible.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). We sat down with Forsblom to learn more about what he learned from his experience in Finland, and what he's hoping to do here. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity. . Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Marketing Director for Paypal Inc. CapLinked was founded in late 2009 by Eric M. They knew from firsthand experience how difficult the process of raising capital is for entrepreneurs, who'd rather be building their company than managing paperwork and updating cap tables. Jackson and Christopher Grey.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

And can you talk about your prior experience, for folks who aren't familiar with your background? Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. We started that in 2006, and sold it to Chicken Soup For The Soul in 2009.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

How did the company start? Scot Richardson: I spent the previous eight years as a live comedy promoter, which grew into a live comedy promotion company, the largest in the country, ComedyJuice. So, how long has the company been around? Ticket companies have basically treated customers like they were theirs, and no the venues.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But all of this increased company creation has to go somewhere. It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon.

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