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JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. A new generation of content producer and video style has emerged that is distinctly different from what you see in TV.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. ” MediaLab is a holding company that owns several other mobile properties , including anonymous social network Whisper and mixtape app DatPiff.

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MAY 19, 2014

According to the two, DIRECTV will continue to be based in El Segundo after the acquisition. The two said the move would help it offer content distribution across mobile, video, and broadband platforms. dish cable television satellite acquisition merger directv' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M in its seed funding round.

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Class Startup Seed Funding Entertainment 185

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MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. AOL committed to keeping the team in LA after the acquisition and in building a deeper technology team in town. LA has a serious technology scene. And I’m proud of that, too. FullScreen. Great engineering teams, all.

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Startup Santa Monica Snapchat Yahoo 318

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers? I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered.

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Content News Startup Research 230

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

TubeMogul is a provider of a video advertising platform, which lets users buy video ads on desktop, mobile, streaming devices, and TVs. TubeMogul , a video advertising company which has offices in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Adobe in a deal worth $540M net of debt and cash. According to Adobe, it will pay $14.00

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.Net Advertising Los Angeles Platform 185

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Even so, ads only work if people can see them, and today’s ad formats need to be visible on any device.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto. We do that methodically.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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APRIL 2, 2014

Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market. Essentially, consumers are opting into Smartify''s platform. What is Smartify? READ MORE>>.

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Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

(www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. They had been huge fans of the platform, and I think they had a super, genuine connection with Youtube, thus with Google.

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Dollar Shave Club Entrepreneur Startup Google 100

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MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. Andy Steuer: Punchcard is a mobile loyalty rewards app. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. We caught up with co-founder Joey Flores on the story behind the company's brush with death, and its recent acquisition by You42, which was announced last week.

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JULY 1, 2010

-Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Kontagent. -A

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

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MAY 2, 2014

They''ve always had two businesses--the content business, which is what people are familiar with, with eHow, Livestrong, and other brands--and then they had the domain services business. The content business will remain as Demand Media, and the separate domain services pieces will be named Rightside. READ MORE>>.

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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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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. We write and create our own content for the game. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Doorman is the mobile friendly middleman to accept, then redeliver your packages in 1-2 hour windows up to midnight. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. Their solution is ingenius in its design. through organic interactions from the community.

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Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Based both in Nashville, Tennesse and Chicago, edo provides personalized card-linked offers to consumers on their credit cards, debit cards and mobile devices. The platform also gives an insight into consumers spending behavior which traders use to increase their loyalty and acquire new clients. For Customer Acquisition and Loyalty.

Advertising 64

Advertising Media Networking Capital 64

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The ROI was solid.

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Platform Startup News Content 40

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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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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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APRIL 15, 2010

I think everybody heard about this acquisition. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. M&A Discussion.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

At Crosscut, we tend to invest in platforms. which is the leading e-sports, mobile platform, and with their title Vainglory, has become the top mobile e-sports company in the world. We've also invested in Vulcan, which is involved in gaming and fantasy sports, and that is a top, daily fantasy sports platform for e-sports.

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Riot Games Southern California Invest Mobile 100

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JULY 25, 2012

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion.

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

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. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

A licensed version of the platform will offer large software publishers, content creators and hardware manufacturers a turnkey solution to create their own private-label storefront. Avenue also handles a range of post-acquisition software management chores including installation and ongoing updates.

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Twiistup Angel Technical Review Software Review 45

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Other supported content types include videos, photos, links, social profiles, check-ins, and more.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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APRIL 10, 2010

As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com. is integrated with the content while being specifically denoted as an ad. So the ad appears wherever content is consumed. Two things : 1) when I invested in Ad.ly I believe this is important because it means that Ad.ly

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Frost & Sullivan just named MediaPlatform the product leader in enterprise video platforms. Jeb Spencer is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TVC Capital , a growth equity firm focused on the investment in and acquisition of business critical software companies. READ MORE>>.

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Capital Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Equity 100

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JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. -DST invested $180mm last fall. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Part of what we do differently, is we leverage original content and breaking news as a hook to get into the site, then quickly get into engaging applications, such as localized events, original videos, mobile apps, fantasy/reality TV leagues, and more. How have you managed the high cost of creating content?

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

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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?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

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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?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

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. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96