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AUGUST 5, 2019

Calabasas-based PlanetArt , a provider of print-on-demand and personalized products, says it has acquired personalized gift company Personal Creations , from FTD Companies , in a deal worth $18.1M PlanetArt said the deal will help it add a "new gifts dimension" to its product platform.

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MAY 22, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone On Demand , which recently filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market as CSOD, has updated its IPO filings documents with the SEC. The firm now says it has 410 clients using its product, up from around 390 when the firm initially filed in September. Cornerstone OnDemand filed for an IPO in September.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango said Friday that it has acquired M-GO , the on-demand, movie release service which is a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. M-GO offers up rental and purchase of movies, with typical rentals costing $5.99

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Irvine-based storage products maker Western Digital announced its second fiscal quarter results on Wednesday afternoon, saying that it saw revenues of $4.9 The company said it had operating income of $545M and net income of $235M, including charges associated with recent acquisitions. billion for the quarter, up from $3.3

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JULY 16, 2018

The new Quest On Demand Migration product is hosted in Microsoft Azure. The company said the software is specifically aimed at helping companies working through mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures with managing their Microsoft Office 365 accounts. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Los Angeles- and New York-based SURE , which offers up personal insurance, on-demand, via a mobile app, has raised $8M in a funding round. SURE said the funding will go towards product development, user acquisition, marketing, and hiring. Wayne Slavin is founder and CEO of SURE. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie streaming service FandangoNOW , the recently launched on-demand video service from Fandango, is now included on the VIZIO SmartCast app, the two companies said this morning. FandangoNOW launched in March of 2016, and came out of the acquisition of on-demand movie service M-GO in January.

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MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. I think the big challenge is going to be customer acquisition.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Think Glendale.

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JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Previously, Creativebug was part of Demand Media, which itself acquired Creativebug back in March of 2013. According to Jo-Ann Stores, Creativebug will continue to be based in San Francisco, and will continue to be led by President and CEO Urusula Morgan.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rubicon says that RTK's solutions are build on the same, open source framework as its own, Demand Manager product portfolio, Prebid. Los Angeles-based advertising exchange operator Rubicon Project said this morning that it has acquired RTK.io , a developer of open source, header bidding solutions for publishers.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. The City of Glendale (www.thinkglendale.com).

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JULY 6, 2016

Venice, California-based OpenMail , a developer of data warehousing products used for marketing analytics and targeting, has acquired the Infospace business from owner Blucora. OpenMail is led by Chuck Ursini, former EVP, Platforms at Demand Media; Ursini also has served at Amazon, Morgan Stanley and UBS.

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them. That might be a retailer, or a brand that sells a product.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

OpenMail is led by former Demand Media executive Chuck Ursini, and is developing data warehousing products in the marketing analytics and targeting area. Venice, California-based OpenMail has completed its deal to acquire online search engine site Infospace , from owner Blucora. Infospace has been around since 1996. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. If you look at the other players, I believe, on-demand tutors will never exist. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit. Given SVBs market position, that is great news.

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MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. We were really focused on customer acquisition. What were you doing before?

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We also just made an acquisition of Jovian over the summer.

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MARCH 6, 2013

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Joey Flores to learn more about the service, plus hear more about the new on-demand service and the challenges it is trying to help musicians and labels deal with in the age of Internet streaming. Can you talk about what the new product is about? What is Earbits?

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MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Our vision is really to become the premier provider of on-demand home services.

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JUNE 3, 2013

About seven years ago, I was asked to step in to lead a roofing and building integrated PV products company. Basically, what we did was develop products which were roofing products for residential homes. Also, contained within those products, were traditional solar products. That literally gave you a solar rooftop.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. He went into products and technology, and I went to development. Among those is accessibility of the product. The other piece, is user acquisition.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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MAY 14, 2012

Few people in the technology world are unfamiliar with the huge rise in the popularity of the photo sharing service Instagram, which was topped off by a $1 billion acquisition of that company by Facebook just a few weeks ago. Matt Munson: We tested demand for this concept, and had about 400 people sign up in 72 hours. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2015

Our first product is a platform, which streamlines the way of how doctors work to get approved at surgery center. Our product totally automates that, and runs an automatic verification process, doing a background check of a doctor's records, and keeps everything up to date, and includes the doctor in that process. It's crazy.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Our clients are retail, technology, consumer product goods, and other companies who are trying to address challenges with a very complex, digital marketing mix they face every day. As you might imagine, I started as a brand manager in the consumer product goods market. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We spent time going out there and really talking to customers, doing primary research, and have our customers actually help us build our products. Obviously, there were situations when we first started our organization, when we were focused on customer acquisition for the mortgage lending vertical. We do that methodically.

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JUNE 9, 2014

When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. Lee Essner: That''s a great question.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Publishers can come and snap valuable data into our website, to augment end user's experience, and developers can help user our data and our API to build more innovative applications, and to be more productive because of the significant availability of this trusted data. That became the underpinning of several products.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We became Amplify's first investment, and first exit, and went from concept to acquisition in eight months. Within four months of starting Look.io, we were in acquisition talks. I got to live in Tel Aviv for four months with their product team, and I really got bit by the travel bug. Asher Hunt: Absolutely. It's mobile first.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

That's the story at Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , which was recently sold to the On-Demand Division of Veolia. The ultimate solution were products to connect business travelers to a taxi company, and also to paratransit. How did acquisition come about? The firm's CEO, Dan Tamkin , tells us the story.

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