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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We take mobile behavior signals, and create actionable insights to power advertising, business intelligence, and measurement. Today, we do business with major brands and advertising agencies, including a lot of retail brands, providing them with business intelligence. Gladys Kong: As you know, we started out in mobile apps.

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Advertising Mobile Social Media Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. Startup DNA. We started talking about his joining Upfront more than a year ago.

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Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. They also avoid Reg D.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising startup headed by Evan Rifkin, has raised $5.5M Burstly first opened up its service in October of last year; the firm raised $1.8M in March of 2010. in a Series B round, according to reports. The round came from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank.

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GRP Partners Advertising Los Angeles Mobile 150

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized business place Internet advertising, is shutting down its Bizzy local business recommendations site, according to a blog post from the site. Bizzy said the site and mobile apps will be shut down by mid-November.

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ReachLocal Woodland Hills Sites Blogging 170

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism on the horizon for 2010. Small Business Outlook 2010: Lessons Learned – A Case for Greater Optimism ,” was published by CIT Group, Inc., A full 59% of respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2010.

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Startup Guide Study Entrepreneur 48

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 13, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 -- Building an Online Brand - Startups Uncensored #13. This months Startups Uncensored will be on the Building an Online Brand. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about what it takes to build and grow an online brand thats meant to last. See [link] (more).

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Ticketmaster Startup Platform Advertising 100

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JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: We actually started two and a half years ago. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. It ended up becoming our breakout product. What's the story behind Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.”

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: We started the company in the summer of 2012, with five totally random people. Explain how five strangers all ended up starting a company together, exactly? I met with david after he flew up to meet me from Los Angeles. However, it costs anywhere from $7,000 to $20,000 to start using those products.

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Social Media Media Startup Culver City 178

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lyfe Mobile is a new Southern California startup that combines augmented reality (AR) with traditional ad networks and real-time bidding (RTB) to offer advertisers and brands a unique opportunity to engage customers in an exciting new way. They funded their new company with their own money and started some serious ad testing.

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Mobile Networking Advertising Southern California 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. People love the fact that Microsoft was started in a garage.

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Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Santa Monica-based CODA Automotive , a startup manufacturer of electric cars, announced today that it has hired on a GM vet, Michael A. He was previously VP of Marketing and Advertising at GM North America, in addition to serving in a number of other sales and marketing positions throughout GM. READ MORE>>.

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Sales Santa Monica Advertising Marketing 165

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

Google, Facebook & Twitter all provide free services to end users and we eat them up. But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. In fact, it is. Ads are effective.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

SEO 64

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Startup 3.0: So, I am on to Startup 6.0. Zondigo, Inc.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

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APRIL 15, 2010

for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M

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Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. And then came AOL. It preceded the WWW.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010. Advertise and get noticed with us! Its like a match made in heaven. .

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 14, 2010

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 -- How Savvy Companies Leverage Brand, Technology and IP Licensing to Leap Ahead of The Competition. See [link] (more).

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IP Competition Technology Company 100

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JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Should you have 7 people doing your seed round and why Ron Conway is the S&P 500 of Venture Capital (this discussion starts at minute 59). Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. -

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. So what does this have to do with OPEC?

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Businesses were hooking up their PCs with things like Novell.

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

It seems so long ago that we had to start hiding our Blackberry’s in our pockets to avoid always being chastised. I remember when I first saw one advertised in a magazine when I was on a flight from England to the US. Sign me up. I didn’t get my first one – believe it or not – until 2010.

Email 386

Email Startup Marketing Competition 386

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

SEO 40

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

The event was created in 2010 by Hank and John Green, when they hosted approximately 1,400 industry insiders and fans. Friend, uber-popular startup blogger and investor extraordinaire Mark Suster took no prisoners in his opening remarks. Next up was Nick Tran, Taco Bell''s "Social Media Lead." Opening Keynote. Fighting Nerds.

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Course Advertising Social Media Content 190

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

LAGbook was founded in 2010 by two twin brothers Chika and Chidi Nwaogu when they were just 19 years old and freshmen at University. Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. 2010 and launched on 25 Apr. What inspired you to come up with LAGbook?

Social Network 100

Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The new owner of former Los Angeles startup Tsavo Media , Canadian-firm Cyberplex , said today that it is looking for "strategic alternatives" for the unit of the firm, after a fiasco involving Yahoo's traffic quality reporting system. Tsavo had been acquired by Cyberplex in 2010, in a deal worth $75M. head Mike Jones. READ MORE>>.

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Tsavo Yahoo Media Report 150

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MARCH 22, 2012

Earlier this month, Los Angeles startup Dollar Shave Club (www.dollarshaveclub.com) made a huge splash with its launch of a subscription, monthly delivery service for razor blades. What's your background, and how did the company start? You're going up against some giant companies, and marketing budgets.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Since then, the craft of advertising online has matured from an art to a science. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! When we launched GoToMyPC in 2001, the rules of online marketing were still being written.

Content 171

Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171