socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2010

Westlake Village-based ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Investopedia.com , an online site focused on financial information and education. Investopedia provides information to consumers on financial terms, education, investing, and more. The deal was worth $42M in cash. million unique U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Westlake Village Education Content Acquisition 157

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Student of Fortune , the online tutorial marketplace and homework help site headed by Sean McCleese, has been acquired by textbook marketplace site Chegg , Chegg said Friday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Student of Fortune was founded in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2009

A patent lawsuit against educational software provider Blackboard , which was spawned by the acquisition of Sherman Oaks-based NTI Group last year, has been settled, according to Texas-based TechRadium. TechRadium also has a similar lawsuit pending against micro blogging site Twitter.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Pasadena-based Cramster , the online homework help site started by Aaron Hawkey, Robert Angarita and Kaveh Golabi, has been acquired by Chegg , Chegg announced today. Chegg said the acquisition will add to Chegg's textbook rental and course planning services. Chegg said Cramster has more than one million members on the site.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The site is the brainchild of Tracy DiNunzio , who took her experience running RecycledBride.com and is now applying the same concept to women's clothing. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. RecycledBride really has become a popular site. It was a crash course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Ownership. Business risks are not just development risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

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socalTECH

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. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others. We have been growing, and profitable for the last ten years.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Editor''s note: we''re cross running this on our Pacific Northwest site, Northwest Innovation, since part of Rightside''s operations are in Seattle.). Steve gave us some insight into that split, and how Rightside is focusing on the new world of gTLDs. Talk about what''s going on at Rightside, and what the business looks like now?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Thus, you need to enable new ways to create a scalable customer acquisition process. A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescu’s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu. During an interview, he discusses that Hulu had its free version with 25 M uniques, which they needed to actively covert into premium subscribers.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For those who may be new to Pubcon its an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For those who may be new to Pubcon its an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web. Indirect competitors include specialized sites like Animation Mentor (specific to animation).

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. They do this by strategically inserting words into your newsfeed with a cheeky gamifying component.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info. The transaction is considered the largest public acquisition in Bitcoin history with both companies exhibiting impressive growth numbers since their respective beginnings.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. I am a very big believer in education and especially higher education.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We've only been working on the site for May, June, July, and August, and it's a brand new endeavor for us. Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon.

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They saw we were highly educated in that space, and because of my background, knew we understand traditional media and were able to address their issues. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. Then, we got written up by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 sites of 2010. So, online video was right in my wheel house.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Chance was recently featured on Fox News for comments on Facebook’s high profile acquisition of wearable VR company, Oculus, for an impressive $2B – and what that meant for early adopters who initially helped the company get off the ground by funding through Kickstarter. ” Platform Focused.

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Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Entrepreneurism / Monetization community, education, marketing. . Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. .

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Customer acquisition ultimately makes or breaks any start-up. Unless the thing you’re building has real value to someone, it’s just a vanity project, no matter the technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). These are both either “remnant” or free ad types. Online text book rental service.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Be the first to disrupt an existing market space. Being first is always important.

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Netflix Social Media Competition Customer 54

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. in terms of time spent on the sites.

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