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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?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2015

And also a “thank you.” We saw several companies present and I was mostly there for the networking. One company – Samasource – presented an incredibly inspirational goal of helping people in developing countries – not by aid but by engaging them in work. Yes, I still used a Blackberry in 2009.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

In case you didn’t know, many VCs target a 3-year investment horizon for a fund and after that the fund mostly does only follow-on investments in companies in that portfolio. Insurance Companies. But thank you. That’s why the best firms tend to raise every three years. University Endowments. Foundations.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Thanks in particular to: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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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. I can’t adequately express how hearing stories from founders, readers, and partners has provided fuel when it was most needed – thank you.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company. The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. Thanks for the time! Describe what Mobile Roadie does? READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009 -- EconMusic. s winning artists will undoubtedly be thanking the gamut of online and mobile channels that have helped boost their overall sales. Grammy season is a fitting time to examine the state of the digital music industry as this year?s But, the challenges ahead are vast.

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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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DECEMBER 9, 2009

TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. You’ll receive recognition as a thank you for your sponsorship. We'd like to thanks our valued sponsors HubKap, SocialGuides, Christian Gammill , Will You Trend?,

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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. This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. The idea immediately resonated.

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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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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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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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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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► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. A BIG THANK YOU. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► March (2) 4.

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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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JULY 6, 2015

Page Howe: LA is a domain name that works perfectly for companies and brands in LA. Page Howe: I've been a fan of the domain since 2008 and 2009, having grown up in LA, lived here, and seen the story here through the good and the bad. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms. domain name.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Where''d the idea for the company come from? I took some time off with my family, and in 2009 and 2010 came up with this idea for the Bluetooth. Erik Adams: Yes, there are lots of Bluetooth companies out there, the Jawbones of the world, the Plantronics. Those other companies are based on technical functionality.

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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. Thanks, and good luck!

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APRIL 10, 2019

One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry.

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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. Eric Jackson's Paypal Story.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac, thanks for sitting down with us today. 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.

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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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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw.

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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. I can’t adequately express how hearing stories from founders, readers, and partners has provided fuel when it was most needed – thank you.

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MAY 18, 2010

We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app. Al Eisaian: There's a common theme with the last three companies I've been involved in as far as startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. And as long as private-market capital is available these companies would rather remain private for longer before going public. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more more than 5 years ago?—?and

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Those offers might be a thank you for coming in yesterday, please come back next week. That's something that typically only large companies with large ERP budgets, like Amazon or eBay, have been able to do, something which has not been available to local businesses. Can you talk about your background? I started early on in my career.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Disraeli also recently was appointed as CEO of the company. How did the company start? Certainly, not an overnight success, it took us several years to hire our first full time employees for the company. Very interesting culture in that they were a small company, and blended with us culturally.

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JULY 26, 2022

In the past decade we have remained consistent, investing in 12–15 companies per year at the earliest stages of their formation with a median first check size of approximately $3 million. In our best-performing companies we often write follow-on checks totaling up to $10–15 million out of our early-stage fund. The answer is: not much.

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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). I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here.

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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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APRIL 25, 2011

We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. Scott Lahman: When we first put it out in early 2009, free texting was just a huge offering. That said, it's easier today thank in the past. I fell that that is by far the most important element of a company.

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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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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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OCTOBER 26, 2016

What types of companies will be part of Techstars LA? The companies really are at the discretion of the managing director and team on the types and focus areas of the companies who will be included. We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. billion combined. Startups are hard.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Thanks to her, I never thought much about my identity being defined by being a woman. Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. But I’ll give you one quote that struck a chord with me, “Since childhood, I have been fortunate enough to be inspired by strong women.

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