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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, former Chairman of MySpace, said Wednesday that it has launched a new service which automatically pulls up and links to related content on web pages. Pluck was a developer of social media software for web publishers. READ MORE>>

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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.

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APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. How does it work?

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JULY 30, 2010

decrease in automotive e-commerce revenues, related to continued weakness in demand from automotive dealerships. Internet Brands--which has been an aggressive acquirer of web sites--also revealed that it acquired six websites in Q2, for a total of $8.6M. Tags: internetbrands internet brands merger acquisition. READ MORE>>.

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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 started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. Other people have tried to put linear television on the Web.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Demand Media, the internet publishing firm which is in the midst of an IPO effort, is the brainchild of Richard Rosenblatt, who was at the reins of Intermix, the parent firm of MySpace, and brokered the sale of MySpace to News Corporation. www.demandmedia.com).

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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. Signal Sciences, a Culver City web application security company, is adding impressive clients and just closed a $30M Series C that will help it continue to scale.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Jeff is the founder of crowd-sourcing location based mapping services web sites DeadCellZones.com and PhotoEnforced.com. Skype, Green Dot (Tech Coast Angels get 110X return), Tesla Motors, Demand Media, Linked In, Zynga, Glam Media, Gilt Groupe and Yelp all have very disruptive business models. However (More.).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We let restaurants set pricing based on demand, and then if you're hungry looking for a place to eat, we match you up with a restaurant offering a great deal. Also, restaurants really love it because they only pay per customer, that they can take control of how many customers they are receiving based on demand. How do users do that?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As inflation rates spiral and consumer demand takes a hit, business owners are forced to be more mindful of their bottom lines than ever. Want to browse the web privately? ? The grants can be used up to the business owner's discretion, but common uses include land acquisition, renovation, project planning, construction, and more.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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DECEMBER 11, 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. Think Glendale.

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JUNE 19, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Providing web abalytics to 2,100+ brands (including: BofA, Office Depot).

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JUNE 26, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JUNE 5, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Think Glendale.

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JULY 24, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. While Senior Director of Corporate Development & Acquisitions at Salesforce.com, he grew the B2B sales division to $100M.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. We were really focused on customer acquisition. Talk about Telesign and what you do? How did the company start?

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AUGUST 7, 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. Think Glendale. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. Nice sweep!

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). The right people.

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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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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors demand more than that. " In Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Startup Founder , I mentioned that before you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to be really clear on your purpose. The quality of the team, and overall financial health are equally important, as well as how your offering compares to competitors.

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NOVEMBER 17, 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. Think Glendale.

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APRIL 24, 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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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market. We can help brands achieve, on average, conversions that are 10 times higher than the industry. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

That allows our media buying team an dour content team to make moves, to buy more inventory on the web, and drive more traffic on the website, with the whole goal of bringing in more consumers and acquiring more customers for our clients. We''re able to track everything we''re doing, and report back on it. We do that methodically.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays. It's the first year that baby boomers have been eligible for retirement benefits, and there are people with discretionary income, even in these economic conditions, who are demanding these experiences. For the most part, tour operators love it.

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socalTECH

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. On Demand enterprise, and consumer software-as-a-service is also very interesting to us. We really believe in the market.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The other key business we are in is the aftermarket and registrar business, through SnapNames and Moniker, two acquisition we made. So, we've started to do that organically, and through some acquisitions. We are aggressively talking to people who want to sell a web site, and might have a great property but need to scale to grow faster.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend some of my precious capital to protect it. Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. What's the story behind Savings.com?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. In the case of Demand Media, they looked at us to be a host for their data within the health vertical. The reason we are excited to partner with Demand is they know something about how to crowd source structured information. How does that work?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Foursquare. -A Competitors: Gowalla.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. Shortly thereafter, the company received an acquisition offer which would have put over $15 million into the Founder’s pocket.

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