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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google. Their mindset is that everyone should be an entrepreneur if they want to be, that's their mantra.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 Although we're not going to be focused on revenues for a year, it's clear at this time that this kind of real estate is very valuable for advertisers.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

You see users moving to a platform that doesn''t monetize advertising as well. They''re even one of our advertisers right now. We bought SheKnows for a couple of million, and six years later Evolve sold that to a private equity company for over $100M. All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers. Even with quality publishers and advertisers, there's still a lag in payment timing between the advertisers and publishers of anywhere from 90 to 120 days. But, we have a non-equity dilutive product, and we accelerate cash flow.

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JUNE 23, 2021

The one thing the investors I mentioned all the way through-is they have put a lot of trust into me as an entrepreneur, and they trusted me. We weren't working with main street and small businesses, but public and private equity backed companies. To get back to the question, the investors were quite supportive.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. I helped to grow that to a major player in ecommerce and online advertising, which is used to find and buy chips use in your iPhone, in your computer, and everything else today. However, in the Muni bond market, there are 1.25

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com). If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things. Indi stands for individual.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. We hope that the platform will allow entrepreneurs a streamlined transition to an accelerator program, financing or to otherwise launch their businesses.”. Post navigation.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Part of our advertising, is we are sending people checks in the mail for $25, or $50. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. You mentioned you had been on the investment side of things -- what pushed you to become an entrepreneur? Scott Saunders: It's where the action is.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Most of our mentors are people who have been successful entrepreneurs and investors, who have been there, and understand how to get a company to the next sage. We charge zero, and take no equity, and really there are very small operational costs for us to support startups. We do that by galvanizing the community to help out.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. That's the entrepreneur we get excited about working with.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. That's the entrepreneur we get excited about working with.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

They were putting online advertisements through Google Ads to solicit people to rent equipment, who could not figure it out on their own. We sold that to a very large private equity company. Entrepreneurs are great at coming up with ideas, but it takes a different kind of person to really scale a business quickly. Cloud Capital.

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MARCH 1, 2012

That was a rocket ride as well, and that took us to a top 10 website, and NBC took an equity steak in the company. One of the things I heard often when doing any marketing, was that although local businesses would get customers from their advertising efforts, the didn't know when they were coming back.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Every so often--particularly in Southern California--you run into a serial entrepreneur, with multiple successes and great track record-- yet, who very few people are aware of. Instead, after a private equity firm offered to buy YLighting, we negotiated to keep the technology that we had developed. We sold it to a private equity group.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Participating companies get between $4,000 and $8,000 in addition to mentorship and office space while participating in the 12 week program, and have to give up zero equity in exchange. Love the student entrepreneur scene in LA right now! Thanks to our advertisers. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on LinkedIn.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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