Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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APRIL 2, 2013

Macadaan shared what he learned from his experience redesigning MySpace in 2009 , and how that's helping to shape what he's doing--along with the rest of the team at LA technology incubator/studio Science Inc.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. Please help share this widely so that more women become aware of this important resource that is being run nationally. LA Female Office Hours.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year. Back in 2014, I wrote a column intended to help consumers walk away from their.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are many others, like the classic book about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car way back in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. You need a culture where restlessness is tolerated, curiosity is encouraged, passion is inspired, creativity is expected, and people are always talking about what’s next. or “So what?”

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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. That's the thing I love about venture. All day, every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis.

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MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future. Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. 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. I stayed close.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. ” It helps to have seen the way down twice before to know many of the signs. I’m always paranoid about shelfware. I’m paranoid about the evaporation of revenue. I wrote about The Importance of Professional Services here. I know, I know.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Many of the articles I’ve read about him over the last several years have a listing of his biggest successes – mostly Uber – and a tinge of cynicism about his close connections with celebrities or self promotion. story about big bets and equally grand huevos. story about big bets and equally grand huevos.

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APRIL 5, 2017

We spoke with CEO Bryan Cheung to learn more about LifeRay, and how it grew from a church basement and open source to $100M+ in revenues, without ever taking outside capital. Technology is transforming every aspect of business, and our technology is one piece of the puzzle that helps them get there. What is LifeRay?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009 -- Gravity Summit at UCI - Social Media Marketing for Business. Gravity Summit events help bridge the gap between the new Social Media Marketing tools and the business community.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We caught up with Al recently to hear about his latest startup. What is IconApps all about? We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. What's special about the application? Al Eisaian: IconApps is built around simplifying people's lives through mobile technology.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I began by asking Adeo about the inspiration for The Funded. It helped balance the forces between people trying to create value and create jobs and create companies and people trying to make money from those initiatives. At the time, there were about 25,000 technology businesses started every year. Taming The Prison Guards.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Meet the VCs: The thrill of speed dating for startups. An interactive networking roundtable at which more than 30 venture capitalists from California, will talk with local entrepreneurs about deal flow and the types of investments they're looking to fund. See [link] (more).

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. He’s also candid, humble and helpful. Farb talks about how he did that. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego.

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MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

We recently ran into Page Howe , the Chief Engagement Officer for the.LA (www.la) domain name extension, who sat down with us and told us about why he's out making the rounds with community groups and events, promoting the use of.LA domain name, and we caught up with him to hear more about why he things everyone should get their own.LA

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

After an Adviser at his Cupertino High School told Nithin and his fellow Freshmen classmates about a school in Kenya that needed help with their educational facilities, Nithin, along with another student, created Kenya Dream and ran it as Co-Presidents. We didn’t think about having a prom. Lastly, never give up.

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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. Most importantly, humor can get customers talking about your product or service. We are] being as authentic as possible and using humor [in our messaging].

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

However, most enterprises are overlooking an existing, in-house bank of computing resources--desktops and otherwise idle computers--which could help reduce the costs and give them more control over their cloud computing. How did the idea for the company come about? Explain what Kazuhm does? Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Tell us a little bit about the firm? Kevin O'Connor: I've been doing venture since my first deal in 1995, and have been investing on and off since I moved to Santa Barbara in 2001, under the name O'Connor Ventures, and did that full time until 2009, when I started Graphiq, and switched back into doing another company. I was blown away.

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JUNE 28, 2012

We spoke with founder Matthew Goldman about the startup. Matthew Goldman: We're helping people to simplify the decision they make when they pay for products. What we have, is a card you can use anywhere major credit cards are being accepted, and the advantage is we help people make smart decisions. What is Wallaby?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- Deloitte IPO Workshop. Curious about the current state of the IPO market? The credit crisis put IPO plans on ice but now rising equity markets coupled with a growing optimism that the worst of the recession could be over are helping to raise hopes that the IPO market is returning.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 -- "Creating Informed Consumers For Sustainable Health Care" TechAmerica. How about management? We will discuss how consumerism programs can help employers manage costs, promote preventive care, expand access, and embrace technology, all of which are important issues given today's economic climate.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

In the Obama administrations stimulus plan (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) there is a provision of $19 billion to accelerate the use of computerized medical records in doctors offices.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Use the Virtual World to Get Real Customers. Online video and virtual environments can help marketers boost their pipeline and connect with their prospects and customers in a cost-effective way. Your customers arent spending. Youve lost faith in the traditional marketing channels. What can you do?

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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 ). But we have to acknowledge that the industry has changed.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in rounds, and even employees looking for safer jobs. The company was eventually acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5

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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. Can you talk about the reason you guys went out for this latest round, given your growth?

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MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. Our goal and promise to consumers is to let them stay connected to all of the video they care about online, regardless of where it comes from, on any device. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. What is Frequency?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 1, 2009

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 -- bloblive LA - Open Mic Night for Entrepreneurs. Anyone can get up to share their ideas about new businesses, existing businesses, non-profit/socially entrepreneurial ventures, etc. We provide the food and the venue, everyone else brings the ideas, dreams and willingness to help. See [link] (more).

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