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DECEMBER 27, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010?

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Truecar Southern California High Tech Startup 203

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? It's a revelation.

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Rustic Canyon Southern California High Tech Venture Capital 164

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The highest ranking firms on the overall Technology Fast 500 from the area were Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a developer of software e-commerce tools headed by Dan Engel , which was ranked at number 13 nationally with 17,468% revenue growth from 2006 to 2010. Editor's note: socalTECH was a sponsor of this event.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? I think we are there.

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Clearstone Southern California High Tech GRP Partners 133

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JUNE 29, 2017

InvestCloud was founded and is led by CEO John Wise, a British entrepreneur who started Investcloud in his Los Angeles garage in 2010. According to InvestCloud, it will open up a new "Innovation Center" which will offer both startups and established financial firms to deliver wealth management software supported by its platform.

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Incubator Startup Los Angeles Tool 113

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Steve Poizner , the serial technology entrepreneur who recently founded the Alliance for Southern California Innovation , has thrown his hat back into the political ring, and will again seek a seat heading up the California Insurance Commission. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

TCVN has been running its Survivor events for a number of years, with the last event being held in 2010. It looks like the annual TCVN Survivor event is heating up this year, as the group said it will be offering up a new $25,000 cash investment for startups looking to pitch their company in front of an audience.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The startup is led by Robert Shulte, who was founder of sales tax software provider Taxient, which was based in San Diego, and who he sold to tax software developer Avalara in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. 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.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Watson Foundation , which will support entrepreneurism in the San Diego region. Watson, who was an active angel investor with the TCA until his untimely death in 2010. The fund has been started by a $1M gift from the family of John G.

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JUNE 5, 2012

FileTrek is headed by Dale Quayle, a serial entrepreneur whose last firm, Integrien, was sold to VMware in 2010. According to the firm,the new FileTrek iPad app helps workgroup managers and team members to track the flow of projects, data, and activity from their iPad tablet. The new app is free.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). What is the Tech City Investment Organization?

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Organization Startup Google Invest 209

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

It's been a big weekend for tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, after another successful launch Sunday from his commercial spaceflight firm, SpaceX--based in Hawthorne--and, it turns out, another IPO filing for Musk. It turns out that Musk owns 31.9 percent of SolarCity, which was founded by his cousins, Lyndon and Peter Rive.

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SpaceX Southern California Hawthorne Entrepreneur 145

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The bible of entertainment industry news, Variety , has been acquired by Internet entrepreneur Jay Penske, via his firm, Penske Media , the companies said today. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Penske is the son of automotive magnate Roger Penske, owner of automotive firm Penske Corporation. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Watson had been found dead by fellow Tech Coast Angels members in June of 2010. Watson Foundation, which will honor his memory by fund specific TCA-San Diego network activities that promote entrepreneurism. It was later discovered that Keigwin had stolen $9M after killing Watson, who had been a friend.

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Tech Coast Angels Angel San Diego Activity 174

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Since 2010, $6.3B Today, we share the thoughts of Kelly Perdew , the founder and Managing Director of Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com).

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Capital Technical Review Truecar Venture Capital 100

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures. That was the case I think until 2010, when I think something very beautiful happened. I think it all crystallized in 2010 on the Santa Monica promenade. Entrepreneurs should seek those people out.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. How do you think the industry will shake out?

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APRIL 12, 2017

That was in 2010, it's all been venture for the last seven and a half years. Until we have that perfect day, there will always be smart entrepreneurs trying to solve those inconveniences, trying to resolve all of those pain points. And of course, that entrepreneur has to have the passion to pursue solving that problem.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

The provision on changing the tax treatment of "carried interest" was thrown in at the last moment to offset the loss of revenues that results from extending some tax benefits to corporations into 2010.

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Startup 145

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The act only came into effect in 2010, at which point we built a system to try to find out that information for as many schools as possible. I graduated in May of 2010. The two main programmers also graduated in May of 2010 from Harvey Mudd College, and the fourth person on our team recently graduated from UCSD law school.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

As the markets went down, just like any other investor, they were very conscious of investing more carefully--but, that said, it also meant that there seemed to be more entrepreneurs, for various reasons, were newly interested in starting companies. We invested all through 2009, and are currently seeking investments to do in 2010.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 182

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. media social advertising open software display entrepreneur startup interview nanxi' Zach told his college housemate, Alex, to drop out of school to join. How big is this market? READ MORE>>.

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Social Media Media Startup Culver City 178

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. Once you know the space, China really helps entrepreneurs. tradesparq alibaba trading international trade china entrepreneur startup kleist michael' We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online.

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Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

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JANUARY 31, 2011

According to the White House, the President's new budget proposes making permanent the elimination of capital gains taxes on key investments in small businesses, which was passed as a temporary provision in 2010 as part of the Small Business Jobs Act.

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Startup Education Invest Capital 140

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Tom Allanson: The larger companies have a lot more money, but when you're outside you have the ability to visualize what you want to accomplish as an entrepreneur, see that become real, and deliver a real value for consumers and business people. That's the joy of being an entrepreneur. They're all paper focused, and very inefficient.

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Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

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APRIL 4, 2011

Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. We've done really well since then, were profitable in 2010, and have had some really great clients. Thanks for the time today! First of all, talk about GraphEffect and what you are doing? from a group of VCs and angels.

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Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

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JUNE 15, 2017

That was around 2010, when there was only a handful of YouTube creators who had over a million subscribers, and the first year the iPad came out. Milana Rabkin: There are two very different stories. My version, was very serendipitous. I was a digital media agent at the United Talent Agency for five years, prior to founding Stem.

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Startup Content Metrics Platform 140

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JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. That was between 2010 and 2012. So, that didn't scale well. So, I took at look at it.

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JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. That was between 2010 and 2012. So, that didn't scale well. So, I took at look at it.

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Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

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JULY 17, 2013

H.Bloom is one of the companies backed by Los Angeles technology entrepreneur and investor Brian Lee (Shoedazzle, Legalzoom). We started the company three years ago, in 2010, and started in New York City. Bryan Burkhart is CEO of H.Bloom, and was in Los Angeles this week to talk about the company''s launch into this market.

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Legalzoom Los Angeles Startup Commerce 165

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

We're providing a very unique benefit, which is an entrepreneur-friendly incubator. I jumped in at the end of 2010, just as the majority of investments happened--I think $50M to $52M came in 2011. You should come down and see our new location downtown--it's a dream location for entrepreneurs. So, that't the foundation.

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