socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

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. Compared with 2010, the report found an increase of 296 percent over exits in 2010, when $2.6

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 15, 2009

Thursday, May 21, 2009 -- GetHired 2.0. Panelists scheduled to attend the event include hiring representatives from Disney ABC Television Group, Warner Brothers, MySpace, Demand Media, CyberCoders, NeoHire and more.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Until recently, three legacy providers (Sizmek, PointRoll and Google’s DoubleClick) have dominated the rich media market. But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. An entirely new industry is being formed.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech IP Content 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And second, that Curate Media will be the corporate brand and organizing unit. At the end of the day, what we do is create demand and pass that in the form of a lead to someone. There's also an extremely important media aspect to the model. About 1/3 of our model is around display or standard media.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. on April 24, 2009. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

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. At Archer we are focused on working with southern California's best entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to build disruptive new businesses.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on. April 24, 2009. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. innovation.

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

The customer base is no longer a mass audience that can be driven by mass media, but a dynamic network of individual customers who interact with each other, and expect to interact with you as a business. Conversations may be on existing social media, or on your own brand forum established specifically for this purpose.

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Customer Custom Startup Networking 91

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Independents: Millennial Media , Greystripe , Medialets , JumpTap , Mojiva.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. Media is exploding. The need is not there.

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Google Advertising Media Startup 124

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Basically, that disruption is 18-34 year olds have changed how they consume media. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. Everyone knows this.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. Brandon Hance: Two in particular do on-demand, Cafepress and Zazzle. It represents a tremendous opportunity.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

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. Connecting with your customer via social media, forums or advertising is the norm these days, but there’s nothing as strong as building a community around your brand.

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Tips Customer Custom Dollar Shave Club 71

Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

. &&&&&& By the way, if you’re looking for some provocative reading that helps reinforce what I’m talking about, be sure to click on this Q&A with Martin van der Meij, head of commercial development at Telegraaf Media Group.

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Advertising Sales Software Platform 59

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. What we're starting to see, is that there is professionalism from folks like Oversee and Demand Media, who have gotten bigger by being in the monetization business. This year we think we'll return to the growth profile we had.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. They asked me why I was interested in a nonprofit?

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

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. One big challenge is how to grow the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Unger, John T.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Read more: TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. The world’s most demanding enterprises, such as Ticketmaster, Fox Sports/MSN, Intuit and Williams-Sonoma turn to StrongMail for their critical customer communications.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , June 21, 2010 Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide.

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