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JANUARY 27, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 -- The Art of the Start-Up. An interactive workshop and panel discussion focusing on practical issues to business, legal, and fund raising choices. See [link] (more).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Thursday, February 25, 2010 -- The Art of the Start-Up. San Diego Software Industry Council. An interactive workshop and panel discussion focusing on practical guides to business, legal, and fund raising choices. See [link] (more).

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MAY 11, 2021

The company originally was in the business of developing social apps, and was part of Idealab, having started way back in 2010. UberMedia developed business intelligence and data analytics software.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 -- Practical Advice for Entrepreneurs and Start-ups. Society of Postdoctoral Scholars at UCLA. Information about the Tech Coast Angels Mentorship Program. See [link] (more).

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MARCH 5, 2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010 -- Cal Poly Pomona Technology Incubator March 2010 Showcase and Networking. Through a guided process with academic and real work experience, students have gain intimate knowledge of a real start up atmosphere. Networking session is to follow incubator lab demonstrations. See [link] (more).

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Pomona Incubator San Gabriel Networking 100

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Semiconductor maker Inphi , which develops high speed interconnect semiconductors--and which was started in Westlake Village, where it continues to have major operations--is being acquired by fellow semiconductor company Marvell. Inphi has been a public company since 2010, trading as IPHI on the NYSE. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2021

The rebranding is the latest makeover for UberMedia, which got its start way back in 2010 as an alternative client software for Twitter. UberMedia previously started under the name TweetUp, changed its name to PostUp, then acquired Twitter client UberTwitter, changing the new company name to UberMedia.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 -- Start your own company? Dr. Allen will give details on how entrepreneurship is much more than merely starting a new business. Like a Fox! Buenaventura IEEE-EMBS. Dr. Kathleen Allen of the USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies will discuss entrepreneurial leadership.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Thus, it's hardly surprising that in 2010, women earned only 18% of all computer science degrees. The post Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture appeared first on John Greathouse. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse. Photo Credit: Grace Hopper Website. Share and Enjoy.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 -- UCLA Internship Fair for Small and Start-up Businesses. 2010@anderson.ucla.edu. The goal of the Fair is to match entrepreneurial companies in need of talent in a variety of corporate functions with Anderson MBA students searching for both academic and paid internships. Email david.franklin.2010@anderson.ucla.edu.

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JUNE 6, 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010 -- Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud  Challenges and Opportunities. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to the company, the growth is a huge increase from its start offering up its seasonal subscription box in 2013, when it shipped a mere 2,000 boxes. The site had started in 2010 as a digital magazine focused on beauty, fashion, fitness, wellness, and other areas.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Velocify was led by President and CEO Nick Hedges, who took over as President and CEO at the firm in 2010; Velocify started life as Leads360, the onetime winner of the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch competition back in 2007. Velocity's software is used for sales lead management. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Sales Competition Los Angeles 124

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

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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

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This coming Friday and Saturday (February 12 & 13) TechZulu will be presenting The BIL 2010 Conference live.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Gimbal was spun out of Qualcomm in 2014, and had started as a project within Qualcomm in 2010. Gimbal's technology was used by brands, retailers, advertisers, venues, and out-of-home (OOH) networks to understand the movement of their customers. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Santa Monica Advertising Acquisition 100

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MARCH 24, 2014

In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

who start with small equity percentages don’t end up making very much from startups. and if you can’t then you better start thinking of ways to raise enough funds to be able to pay them something. For me to do either of these, I certainly need to really believe in the idea and it has to be something that won’t consume all of my time.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity Develop 241

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JANUARY 16, 2014

The company only started its recycling kiosks in 2010, and was previously a winner of the San Diego Venture Group''s Pitchfest. ecoATM was acquired for $350M in July of 2013 by Outerwall (formerly known as Coinstar). READ MORE>>. ecoatm cell phone recycling buyback kiosk outerwall'

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San Diego Report Company Companies 168

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JANUARY 27, 2012

In a pre-auction listing of domains to be auctioned off at the conference, Oversee.net, which owns both Moniker and SnapNames, put a $750,001 to $1M starting bid on the Bargain.com domain. 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.

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Oversee.net Conference Los Angeles Sales 180

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JANUARY 15, 2014

To solve that, a San Diego startup, Zingle says it has been offering up a service to help connect businesses with their customers via texting -- starting with the hotel industry. According to Zingle, its text-messaging "concierge" product, which helps hotels communicate directly with their customers via texting. READ MORE>>.

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Services Startup San Diego Customer 149

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%.

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

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MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today!

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JULY 19, 2012

Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Fab.com operates an online, flash-sales and e-commerce site that revolves around design; the site originally started as a social network, and is headed by Jason Goldberg.

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Funding Seed Funding Commerce Social Network 178

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

M&A Outlook for 2010 / 2011 – text. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based RotoHog is in a partnership with social networking site Hi5 , Hi5 announced last night, and is using RotoHog to power a new fantasy sports game called 2010 World Futbol Challenge. The online, bracket-style game will award "confidence points" for virtual goods on hi5's virtual goods store.

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Social Network Mission Ventures Sites Networking 150

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MARCH 8, 2011

The information came out in the annual index, which showed that while 2010 had a very high startup rate--the highest in 15 years--those new businesses are not generating jobs. The Kauffman Foundation speculated that the economy and high unemployment has pushed individuals into starting up sole proprietorships, while avoiding hiring employees.

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Entrepreneur Report Long Beach Statistics 246

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, thirty-five states, starting with Maryland way back in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price.

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Startup Organization Customer Custom 149

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Wittlebee offers up subscription packages that delivers basics like onesies, t-shirts, socks, leggings and other products to parents, starting at $39.99 Percival shut Lalawag--run with wife Laurie Pervical--in 2010, in part because of the birth of Percival's baby and his work serving as VP of Online Marketing for MySpace under Jones.

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Santa Monica Startup Commerce Incubator 217

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Kurion started up a plant earlier this year in Richland, Washington--near Hanford-- for vitrifying radioactive waste. Kurion's technology absorbs radioactive waste and converts it into glass, making it easier to dispose of safely.

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Sites Journal Startup Report 127

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Buy.com was acquired in May of 2010 by Rakuten. Buy.com was one of Orange County's emblematic ecommerce brands, having been started in 1997 by Scott Blum; Buy.com went public during the Internet years, in 1999, but then was re-purchased by Blum in 2001 after plunging during the Dot Com crash.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In an update to supporters, Nazar said that it now has over 80,000 people who have become paid users to its Docstoc Premium subscription service, which gives those users access to premium business documents via a monthly subscription, starting at $9.95

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Legalzoom Santa Monica Startup Sites 182

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Grow Your Network in 2010 at a Santa Monica Hot Spot. The economy is starting to heat up. What better way to turn up the temperature on your career or business then to attend our first mixer of 2010? The job market is beginning to thaw.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

The new focus is one of several iterations made by Chill since its started life as Namesake, a social Q&A service, back in 2010. The site had earlier been focused on creating group chat rooms where users could chat in real time on livestreamed events.

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Redpoint Sites Los Angeles Services 160

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JULY 17, 2012

According to the two, Larry King Now is premiering this week, starting with an interview of Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane with King, which was posted today. Larry King--who used to dominate CNN's interview programming--has been off the air since Larry King Live went off the air in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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Hulu Los Angeles Angel Content 133

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Lynda.com is unique in that it started out as a bootstrapped business operated out of the personal website (Lynda.com) of co-founder Lynda Weinman, in the not-so-technology hotbed town of Ojai. The business saw a dramatic growth when--due to the downturn of the dot com crash--the company started to post its video online.

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