socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. John Batter: M-GO was formed about two years ago as a joint venture between DreamWorks and Technicolor. As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 31, 2011

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 -- An Update On The State of the Deal Market. As the 1st quarter comes to an end, what can we expect for the remainder of 2011? In 2010, there were 16,000 MandA transactions consummated, aggregating to nearly $1 billion in transaction value. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 -- Organic Marketing for Startups. Organic marketing, however, is a massively underleveraged and underinvested channel with powerful potential. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. Just yesterday, a new study “ The PNC Economic Outlook: Survey of Small & Middle-Market Business Owners ” was published. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

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Study Startup Pricing Guide 89

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 9, 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 -- Best Practices: Marketing and Branding for SMBs. Consumers do not make linear decisions any longer about purchasing goods or services and will engage in many touch points before deciding on a purchase. Almost all of these start online. million under mgmt.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

SeatMe was founded in San Fransisco in 2011 and makes managing reservations easy and affordable to restaurants and nightlife establishments through technology solutions that are consumer-centric with features such as texting guests when their table is ready. ” Yelp has has about one million U.S. Yelp will pay approximately $2.2

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011 -- A CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: The current venture market and how to pitch it - Joey Tamer, shadow CEO. Getting professional tech investment (private, angel, venture, strategic) in these times is not easy.

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Marketing Education Invest Angel 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Or, maybe it’s just about getting out of the way and watching what they can achieve. Wait, What About Yves? She’s empathetic and brings great humor to her work as well.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president Ignite Social Media , of one of the best known social media marketing agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

pointed at all of the companies in Los Angeles that came out of the demise of MySpace, and argues that the growth of Snap is about to trigger another wave of startups in the market. In the report, Amplify.LA In the report, Amplify.LA For its own part, Amplify.LA billion, with so far 9 of its companies acquired. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2011

SVB said its Startup Outlook 2011 survey came from the responses of 375 U.S-based The study was conducted by independent market research firm Koski Research during February 2011. SVB said it found that startups are optimistic about current business opportunities.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event. If you are an AR Enthusiast – you will feel like a kid in a candy store at ARE 2011. Dates: May 17-18, 2011. ARE 2011 Sponsors: Qualcomm , Occipital , and Ogmento. For a complete list of confirmed business talk speakers visit the website at: [link].

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

A company that makes a mapping system to help doctors see high-resolution, 3D images of irregular heart rhythms in real time has raised $100 million in venture investment and a $70 million credit facility to fund its full-scale market launch. Acutus Medical, based in the northern San Diego community of Carlsbad, was founded in 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of starutps in the past 2 years. New stuff gets created, it’s fun to play with and talk about. You want to use it because your friends are doing it and you want to find out what it’s all about. They get marketed as such. But what does this all mean?

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. We went out to market to LPs. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman. “We We got a lot of interest.

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IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

headquarters in Los Angeles, to help increase its market presence in the United States. The German company started shipping its sonnenBatterie products in 2011. The comapny says that so far, it has installed about 10,000 of its storage solutions throughout Europe. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2011

In a sign of the strength, Irvine-based Broadcom said Wednesday morning that it is raising its financial guidance for the fourth quarter of 2011. The firm raised its forecast to about $1.8 billion in cash and marketable securities in the quarter, based on strong cash flow and a completed debt offering.

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Marketing 145

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

I say “struggle to overcome&# because I care about young people entering our industry with a set of realistic expectations about what “normal&# is. That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. .&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. It’s marketing.

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socalTECH

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. I think Tesla qualifies as a technology company, and that it has just changed the paradigm of how we think about the automotive business and what we drive.

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Truecar Southern California High Tech Startup 203

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I can’t control the market. Private markets for stocks are the opposite.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 1, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- S.M.A.S.H. SMASH is an interactive conference designed to help you make better decisions about deploying social media for marketing, public relations and corporate communications. Social Media Advanced Skills Huddle). socalTECH readers get $100 off using code socaltechsmash. See [link] (more)

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Social Media Media SoCalTech Conference 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Tubefilter Hollywood Meetup  September 2011: Gettin' Social in Online Video. It's clear that being asuccessful online video producer is about being both a creator and a marketer. But how do you engage and drive audiences? See [link] (more)

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Tips Hollywood Tool Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. We announced Fund I in 2011. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators. So we went for it.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

I first met Greg about 4 years ago or so. He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. So I began talking to him about joining the fund. Community builders.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Monday, October 24, 2011 -- Meet the Investor Series: Daniel Zhu, TSING Capital. Join us at the OnGreen Headquarters in Los Angeles on October 24th from 11am-1pm to learn more about the OnGreen Venture Roadshow to China and meet with our special guest Daniel Zhu, Partner at TSING Capital, the first venture capital investment firm in China.

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Capital Venture Capital Los Angeles Invest 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- Is Social Media Killing Email. Presented by the Marketing and Sales Executives Society. With the seemingly endless reports about the death of email, its no wonder that the commonly-held myth of decreased email usage exists. Youve seen the headlines: 9 Reasons Why Email is Dead.

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Social Media Email Media Technology Council 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 2, 2011

Thursday, May 5, 2011 -- SBDC Dream and Discover Entrepreneurs Conference. The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) welcomes current and future small business owners, students and community members to attend the free SBDC 2011 Dream and Discover Entrepreneurs Conference on Thursday, May 5 from 1-6pm. See [link] (more)

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Conference Entrepreneur Tips Incubator 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

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. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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Help Startup Competition Framework 303

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. How about IGN ? Well, could be. in a $580M deal. READ MORE>>.

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News Southern California Sales Los Angeles 159

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 -- Live Website Reviews. It is surprising to find out about what both web designers and marketers often miss, which are key ingredients of what your audience can see and not see on the website. Techbizconnection. You got them to your site, but then what? Live reviews by a panel of usability experts.

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TechBiz Web Design Class Web 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

A survey released today by accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP finds that California CFOs and senior comptrollers still have a hesitant outlook on the state's job market. economy will not recover until the second half of 2011 or later. According to the survey--conducted by the firm nationally with 516 U.S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 26, 2011

Monday, May 2, 2011 -- Gartner BI Summit provides the insights, frameworks and best practices to implement BI, analytics and performance management initiatives that drive better decision-making and business performance across the organization. See [link] (more)

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Framework Organization Customer Custom 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology. An IDC study commissioned on behalf of Microsoft has shown that cloud computing will be responsible for creating nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015. The survey also found that business revenues could reach the $1.1

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Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum. Those who didn’t get a ticket in time, turned to Zaarly where tickets sold on the SUW “grey-market” for up to $450 per ticket (this being up for discussion with potential upcoming policy changes).

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 -- Young and Restless. On September 14 EDC and Equinox Center are hosting a lunch program about effectively competing to attract and retain the so-called Young and Restlesscollege educated young adults, the backbone of our future innovation economy.

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