socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena. To give you an example, with Austra, the round we invested in was $60M, and this wasn't atypical.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 15, 2009

Thursday, May 21, 2009 -- Grow Your Business With Social Media. Come prepared to share recent examples, ideas, questions, and methods that have been successfulor ones that could use the input of our group of experts! Discover how fellow marketers are managing their social media marketing strategies. See [link] (more).

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Social Media AMA Media SoCal 100

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For example, removing the friction of mistakes and extra costs by sending a customer shoes in 3 sizes to see which fit best, with easy and free returns for everything. Under his leadership the company grew into a billion dollar company acquired by Amazon in 2009.

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Commerce Statistics Customer Custom 206

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 6, 2009

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 -- Methodology for the Design of Wideband, Wide Bandwidth, High Dynamic Range Receivers. Speaker Richard Webb presents a tutorial based on a wideband design example with narrow instantaneous band-width, then include high dynamic range, and finally describe the additional pitfalls en route to wide bandwidth.

Design 100

Design Examples 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 12, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 -- Agile/XPSoCal. A User Story Writing Workshop In this completely hands-on workshop, we'll work through writing a set of user stories for an example project. We'll start with some simple stories and build up to story writing for larger and more complex situations. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 31, 2009

Friday, February 6, 2009 -- LBS SIG: Dedicated Location Tracking from Niche to Mass Market: Qualcomm inGeo. The presentation will focus on the dedicated location tracking business on it's way from niche to mass market and look at specific use cases and market scenarios using Qualcomm inGeo as an example. See [link] (more).

Examples 100

Examples Marketing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2009

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 -- Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation. In Rethink, business architect Ric Merrifield exposes this problem with vivid examples and introduces breakthrough techniques for overcoming it. Its the trap that ensnares virtually every business. See [link].

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 3, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009 -- Startup University. The time has never been better to start a new ventureexamples abound of companies that were founded in lean times and developed the discipline and frugality necessary to make it long term. Getting Started Legally.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 -- The Acquisitions Option. Participants at this event will hear real life examples of acquisitions made by other smaller local companies; why they did them, how they did them and the benefits of making smaller or even micro acquisitions. SDSIC C-Level Execs BIG.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 -- How Much is Your Business Really Worth? We will discuss some of the common valuation techniques and relate examples of companies who benefited from valuation insights as well as the cost of uninformed valuation decisions, and how to learn from their errors. If so, then this workshop is for you!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 -- Getting it out of the Gate Tech Transfer from Dod. Getting it out of the Gate will cover the process of successfully identifying and transferring DoD technologies to the civilian sector transfer.

Examples 100

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009 -- TCVN Workshop LA. Targeting entrepreneurs, this workshop will provide real world examples on how to: Execute business planning, develop a complete business plan and secure venture funding.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 30, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009 -- TCVN Workshop Orange County. Targeting entrepreneurs, this workshop will provide real world examples on how to: Execute business planning, develop a complete business plan and secure venture funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2009

I’ve posted three people’s examples to the left. If you search for her (as of July 10, 2009 at 5:45pm) you will get no result and the text, “did you mean Amanda Choong?&#. It takes a while (a day or more) to get your name propagated in Twitter’s search index. Be patient – it will appear.

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Tips Social Media Social Network Santa Monica 216

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Stech said he had a brainwave about the opportunity when he finished graduate school at Stanford and moved to Las Vegas, which at the time was at the epicenter of the housing market crash of 2009. He bought a one-bedroom condo that sold for $267,000 in 2007 for $19,000 in cash and realized that the market was ripe for the taking.

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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. Lawrence Ng: Drone and Augmented Reality (AR) is a huge game changer for many industries. While flying a drone is fun, adding an AR element and a virtual world takes things to the next level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2017

The first step is to meditate on the examples set by others, like Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, or Thomas Edison with the electric light. There are many others, like the classic book about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. The computer mouse, Tivo, and Teflon are examples.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 14, 2009

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: The Music Industry is Moving and Shaking!! Examples are rhythm syncopation, key tonality, vocal harmonies and instrumental proficiency. Featuring Tim Westergren, Founder of Pandora. The world of music has changed - and with it opportunity!!

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Enterprise Forum Examples Services 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2014

The first step is to meditate on the examples set by others, like Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, or Thomas Edison with the electric light. There are many others, like the book I read a while back about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Look beyond customer imagination.

Startup 103

Startup Examples Ideas Entrepreneur 103

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

Lower on the page, you can find the best posts from Cliff based on social signals with the top spot belonging to his 9 Marketing Trends for 2009. It also is using technology that we've developed over the past few years that powers a few different similar sites. You can read more about the technology in the post: Topic Hubs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The first step is to meditate on the examples set by others, like Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, or Thomas Edison with the electric light. There are many others, like the book I read a while back about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Look beyond customer imagination.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Examples Ideas Study 98

Eric Greenspan

JULY 19, 2010

A perfect example of sharing delight with our employees is the story of former Make It Work-er Peet Guercio. So when he gave his two weeks notice in July 2009, there were no hard feelings, because we knew he was off to pursue his passion of standup comedy. What you may not know about us is our desire to delight our employees as well.

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Customer Custom Examples 158

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. We sold that to CoreLogic in 2009, and that company now has roughly a 60 percent market share of mortgage applications.

Artificial Inteligence 124

Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Campus Explorer, Burstly, RingRevenue, Cocodot, ElephantDrive and DataPop are good examples. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. A number of companies in the portfolio delivered very strong operating results in 2010, which is exciting.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Ford Blakely, who was previously a business and financial consultant with LECG, founded Zingle in 2009 with a stand-alone device for restaurants, coffee shops, and other service businesses that enabled customers to use mobile text messaging for their take-out orders. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond.

Technology 40

Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

An example of that is Craig's, which now has Craigs.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. How did you get involved with.LA?

Social Network 100

Social Network Startup Mobile Google 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

For example. It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. If you tried to build Instagram before the iPhone, for example, there was almost no way you could have seen their growth rate. ” How’d that turn out in the late 90′s?

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Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review 390

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service? Rob Reed: Starbucks seems to be a good example, though they are not a client. How did the company come about?

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The first step is to meditate on the examples set by others, like Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, or Thomas Edison with the electric light. There are many others, like the one I just finished about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. The computer mouse, Tivo, and Teflon are examples.

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Examples Ideas Entrepreneur Study 94

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

I took a little bit of time off, then started working on Frequency in the middle of 2009. For example, Frequency is connected into people's online presence, through Facebook, Twitter, and their YouTube account. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Services Organization 232

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. What is total assets under management? -

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. I remember, for example, when business intelligence swept through companies globally. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The way our business model works, is, for example, if you're a. 2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. For example, we have a. For example, we give them a. By prints, I am referring to anything that hangs on a wall, whether that's a framed photo, framed canvas, acrylic.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

began life in 2009 with a lofty goal of reverse-engineering the human brain. As an example of advanced AI technology, it’s not particularly sexy or glamorous. Before getting out on the open road, however, the company wants to show its self-driving system can clean up a mess in aisle 3 at Jimbo’s. Like many startups, Brain Corp.

Product 106

Product Artificial Inteligence San Diego Training 106

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. For example, the company’s hashtag is #freetheV. By example,] if you sell men’s body wash or razors, you’re probably still selling to a female customer.

Tips 71

Tips Customer Custom Dollar Shave Club 71