socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow. READ MORE>>.

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Marina Del Rey Hulu Hollywood Entertainment 159

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based SocialAnnex , a startup helping online retailers to use social media to spur sales, has scored a round of funding from a who's who of Southern California technology angels, the firm said Tuesday. Lee of Legalzoom.com and ShoeDazzle, Jody Mulkey of Shopzilla, and Lawrence Ng of Oversee.net have all invested in the site.

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Southern California Oversee.net Angel SoCal 170

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , the content delivery network (CDN) provider headed by Alex Kazerani, said today that it doubled its annual revenues and headcount in 2011, over its 2010 numbers. EdgeCast said it added more than a thousand customers in 2011, including such sites as DailyMotion, Imgur, and posterous.

Santa Monica 159

Santa Monica Content Networking Sales 159

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2012

The highest domain name sale on record looks to be around $13.0M, for the site Sex.com, sold in 2010. Bargain.com is not the only high opening bid domain name; names such as Host.com, Security.com, and Work.com are listed at starting at between $1M and $5M. READ MORE>>.

Oversee.net 180

Oversee.net Conference Los Angeles Sales 180

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2011

Department store firm Nordstrom said this morning that it has completed its acquisition of Los Angeles-based private sales site HauteLook. The acquisition was one of the quickest in Southern California's technology startup world; HauteLook was founded only three years ago, and only just raised its first funding round in June of 2010.

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Acquisition Southern California Sales Los Angeles 133

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2011

Online spending on e-commerce sites hit $37.5 Online sales have been growing since Q4 of 2009, with the last three quarters seeing double digit growth. Online sales have been growing since Q4 of 2009, with the last three quarters seeing double digit growth. billion in Q2, according to the latest numbers from comScore.

Commerce 157

Commerce Sales Sites 157

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

The e-commerce retailer said it saw 146 percent, year-over-year sales growth from its marketplace, which lists products from third party retailers. Buy.com said 46 percent of its orders in Q4, and more than 50 percent of its Q1 2010 site orders came from the Buy.com Marketplace, and that the sales were behind its strong Q4 2009.

Commerce 150

Commerce Sales Sites Product 150

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

in revenues the firm reported in Q1 of 2010. Demand Media said the revenues numbers were driven by continued momentum from its owned and operated sites. Demand also mentioned strong direct brand advertising sales helped its results. Revenues were up 48 percent compared to the $53.6M

Demand 133

Demand Media Santa Monica .Net 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow.

Marina Del Rey 100

Marina Del Rey Technology Hulu Entertainment 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2011

San Diego-based JMI Equity is the lead investor in a first round of funding for online coupons site CouponCabin.com , which said Thursday evening that it has raised $54M in a funding round from JMI Equity. CouponCabin.com said it generated more than $500M in online sales for its merchants in 2010.

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Equity San Diego Sales Sites 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2010

Santa Monica-based firms TrueCar.com and Zag announced last night that the two companies are becoming official sponsors of the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. TrueCar operates an online site which provides pricing data on cars, based on the actual sales prices from local dealers.

Zag 113

Zag Truecar Santa Monica Pricing 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Robison reports that the company now has over 400 employees, spread across seven building in a Carpinteria campus, in addition to a web development branch in Calabasas, and sales offices in the UK and Australia.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In further details on the FAN deal, Addante also said that it has not acquired the advertising sales team at FAN, saying that it "is not, and will not be, an ad network." Rubicon Project operates a service which helps web publishers optimize the advertising on the site, by selecting the best ad networks to run on a particular publisher page.

Networking 147

Networking Clearstone Santa Monica News 147

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. There's an awful lot of check-in sites out there. Why would someone want to use your site? For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Michael Wong: The big reason is really cash.

CTO Coach 223

CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

We were acquired in June of 2010, and it's been 21 months now, almost two years. There are more than 10,000 people in Japan, and they're the third largest site behind Amazon and eBay, doing over 15 billion, with a 14 billon market cap in Japan. Neel Grover: We've been transforming the site and experience quite a bit.

Sites 210

Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. Jonathan Simkin: What makes us unique from other sites, is we're here to help students save time, in addition to money, when they buy books. How did you come up with the web site? I graduated in May of 2010. What's SwoopThat?

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 -- Website Usability Live. Usability and user experience tests are an excellent way of discovering why your site is not performing like you thought it would. In this session, youll learn the importance of having a website built with usability in mind from a sales and lead generation standpoint.

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Case Study Web Design Study Web 100

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site? Jeremy Gocke: Fliptu is a separate site and community. Right now, we're a strictly Facebook Connect site, where what we're trying to do is to enable consumers to pull in all of their interests and likes into a single dashboard.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

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. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Fair trade is becoming more common, but many of the sites that offer those goods follow a for-profit business model and only a handful follow the non-profit road. Since its 2010 launch, SFAC tripled their sales and growth. What makes SFAC a unique non-profit site is their business model.

Social Media 87

Social Media Sites Organization Help 87

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. Tell us about your backers?

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. We are launching a music vertical, which is very similar to our comedy site.

Ticketmaster 140

Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. They are more likely to be the “bottom end of the sales funnel” or in other words close to “point of purchase.” The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). They are limited in size.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2010

Supercool school is a site that allows anyone to create an online learning environment that they can charge students to take a course. Founder Steli Efti stated that he wants to create the Ning of Education, giving the ability to build an educational site to anyone. And who needs them with when you have Supercool School.

Education 63

Education Course Class Startup 63

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We caught up with founder and CEO Erik Adams to hear more about what is startup is up to, and how it''s trying to use the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo to raise money for its startup. Finally, I started pushing the idea, like a vacuum cleaner sales men, showing it to retailers and vendors, and it finally caught on. What is Deka Sounds?

Startup 241

Startup Slides Orange County Design 241

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

million in 2010. million in 2010. million in 2010. jewelry retailer Sikara ), raised $100,000 this way in 2010. Learn from the presentations of Steve Jobs,” says Elie Seidman, a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Oyster.com , a hotel research and booking site that has raised $11 million. The group invested $8.7

Tips 100

Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

I was there from when the company launched until March of 2010, when I left to start MomentFeed. For the first time, that social media activity is actually taking place at the point of sale. It really helps to shorten our sales cycle significantly. We'll also be ramping sales, as well. Whats your prior experience?

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

It kept growing and growing on a grassroots basis, and by 2010, it had just taken off. Do you sell those games through your site, or do you sell through partners? You can help by donating, but you can also go to our site, and buy what we think is going to be the best prices in the world for both new and used stuff.

Pricing 183

Pricing Help Startup Sites 183

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

Platform 82

Platform Help Customer Custom 82

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan. with the clips.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. I really think MyShape has a great concept.

MyShape 150

MyShape CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. Scangos, the former head of Exelixis (NASDAQ: EXEL ), was named Biogen’s CEO in 2010 during a rocky time.

San Diego 40

San Diego Conference Pricing Acquisition 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

The current record was set in 2010, when sex.com sold for $13 million. range in the $20 to $40 range for a year registration, but you can find sales on certain extensions for as little as fifty cents per year. Registration of the domain name is easy and simple through most hosting sites, if nobody already owns it.

Startup 87

Startup Pricing Tips .Net 87

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A few sponsorship spots still available for early 2010 events: TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

Stickam 60

Stickam Content Draper Web 60

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Then, they use the old fashioned scare tactic that if you don’t become a member, people will not be able to find you on their site and will become concerned about doing business with an unaccredited firm. This is my sole objective for January of 2010. They offer assurances that this will lead to more business. Shocking, right?

Santa Barbara 265

Santa Barbara Technical Advisors Email Technical Review 265