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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. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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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. Using the social web to fill excess capacity that exists in nearly every business was one of the best uses of the web that I've seen.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Most apps are about socialization of content, and displaying different media in those apps, and sending out some push notifications, so it really didn't make sense to make that all from scratch. The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist.

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MARCH 14, 2011

We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010. So, how long has the company been around?

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MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. Is this installed software, or web technology?

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JUNE 18, 2009

I recently opened up a company, Champion Media, providing entertainment branding, marketing, and public relations for Gen Y brands. We do share resources, in terms of if someone needs web help at Champion, we might borrow guys from the web, or if we need something for video, we'll go over to the video folks at Champion.

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JULY 23, 2010

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. Part of what we announced this week is a partnership with Federated Media. So let's talk about ThisNext.

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APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable.

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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. I worked in Hamburg for about two years, making investments in early stage media and technology companies in Western Europe.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. If you look at media, and not just radio, advertisers want to get value. At the same time, media--or what we called media--which now includes traditional media, online media, mobile, product placement, etc.

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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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APRIL 28, 2010

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. Finally, what's in your plans now?

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