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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. The travel companies offer brochures showing private beaches and phenomenal sights. Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. You get a feel for the company “vibe.”

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Reflections on 2016: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

socalTECH

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. In the first phase of many industries, you have an explosion of new ideas and companies.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

Tech Zulu Event

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. CTO at SOA Software. Alex earned a B.A.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.

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How We Won $50,000 Award in SBA Growth Accelerator Fund Contest

Xconomy

I realized that other organizations could benefit from what I’ve learned in this process. The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. When the mystartupXX accelerator started in 2012, we had a very small class of startups in the program.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. That was between 2010 and 2012. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots.

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