Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen announced this morning that it has acquired Reelio , the developer of an influencer marketing platform focused on the millennial and Gen Z market, helping brands, advertisers, and agencies identify social media influencers. Reelio was founded in 2012, and had been baed in New York.

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JULY 16, 2012

Rubicon said the new product comes from its May 2012 acquisition of Mobsmith. The new mobile offering uses a similar, real time trading marketplace to the firm's REVV platform. Rubicon said its new REVV for Mobile product helps publishers to sell mobile ad inventory, through both direct and indirect sales channels.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , the provider of online cloud services, e-fax, backup, and other services, is continuing its acquisition streak this morning, saying that it has acquired UK-based Zimo Communications Ltd. The acquisition is the third already for j2 Global in 2012. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. “Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.”

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MARCH 12, 2013

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

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ExactTarget, another rival that was founded in 2000 in Indianapolis, IN, raised over $188 million in venture capital funding before going public in 2012—and getting acquired by Salesforce in a 2013 deal valued at $2.5 It also is a burgeoning sector.

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JULY 20, 2015

By then, it was obvious that the original thesis behind the acquisition by Scripps was just not there. That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well.

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JULY 20, 2015

By then, it was obvious that the original thesis behind the acquisition by Scripps was just not there. That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. The program kicked off on October 4, 2012. 33 companies are in this batch. 33 companies are in this batch.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

A TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Finalist, Gyft said it was giving away $250k in free gift cards on its launch but that’s not what they are up to now. The merchants can drive customer acquisition, increase shopper interaction and drive social engagement.

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MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. How big is YP?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

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MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. How big is YP.com?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Launched in 2012 in Ontario Canada, eQuibbly wants to change the way we resolve disputes by being a quick, easy and free Online Dispute Resolution service across North America and eventually to a city near you. . eQuibbly’s platform allows one to post a dispute online asking the other party in the dispute to respond.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Rapid Fire Trivia is a game owned and operated by Danger Room Gaming. Event Details.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. October 17, 2012 1:15 PM. © Copyright 2012 VentureBeat. Editor’s picks.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

12,000 apps currently on the platform. In her interview, Eisnor discusses the nature of user acquisition, and the growing connection between cars and mobile apps. ” Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator – a platform for building network-connected mobile apps across native platforms. Chartboost doesn’t take a cut.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Dinesh earned his B.S. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun fact: iWaboo Group was founded in 2012 as a pure retail company that owned gadget concept stores in Italy. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. AngelList: [link]. Founders: Ivan Marandola, Patrizia Mossa. Moveha Inc.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.

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