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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Middle Market Investment Banking. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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JUNE 29, 2017

Fund size: $400M (Fund VI) Managing Partners: Mark Suster, Yves Sisteron Partners: Greg Bettinelli, Kara Nortman, Kobie Fuller, Kevin Zhang Investment interests: Seed or A-Round investments with a median check size of $2.8 Managing Director: Bill Maris (formerly of GV/Google Ventures) Investment interests: Health care investments.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Local angel investment group Maverick Angels is merging its membership base into the much larger Tech Coast Angels , according to members of the groups. In recent years, the Maverick Angels had mostly been focused on running coaching programs and seminars for entrepreneurs.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Middle Market Investment Banking. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Vadio is led by entrepreneur Bryce Clemmer, and recently inked a deal with Vevo to help match Vevo''s large library of music videos with other online, music streaming sites. vadio music video streaming technology advertising venture capital investment vevo amplify muckerlab incubator' READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Convertro said it has been working with Media Design Group , a direct response TV advertising agency, to help measure the efficacy of broadcast marketing. Media Design Group has been working with Dollar Shave Club to measure how well TV advertising is working for the company.

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MAY 31, 2012

Earthlink founder and Southern California entrepreneur Sky Dayton is leading an angel investment in a new startup out of Stanford, which is developing a service which allows developers to track changes and extract information out of web pages. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Middle Market Investment Banking. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. It's more the stage and entrepreneur. Tell us what you're doing for True Ventures?

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us.

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APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. Thanks for the time today!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Deena Varshavskaya: I was thinking about alternatives to advertising, because I think advertising just fails to deliver relevance. Deena Varshavskaya: I'm an entrepreneur. The next goal is to find advisors, some technology partners, and to seek investment. What's the story behind the company? READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? I decided--why stop fighting this, because this type of advertising just works, and figure out how to do it a little better in the past. What is ClickTripz? READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project (www.rubiconproject.com) recently had its IPO, making it one of the big success stories of Southern California''s technology startup world. It was all over, geographically, and we did not have a strong community of entrepreneurs. I think that has changed.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Program head Robert Jadon describes Startup UCLA as more of a pre-accelerator than anything, meaning the the ideas are typically earlier stage and the entrepreneurs less experienced. Love the student entrepreneur scene in LA right now! Michael Carney.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. Also, we had an investment in a company that went public this year, BroadSoft, which is one of 2010's best-performing IPOs.

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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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APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Derek Norton: It's that old adage--they invest in the entrepreneur.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. Luck has it, I'm also a small investor though an investment in BetaWorks.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

For an advertiser, you have to look at whether or not the message is even available to the audience. That, of course, is what you're selling to your advertisers. I got my start way back in New York at advertising agencies, on the broadcast TV and radio side, and this actually takes me back to my first love. READ MORE>>.

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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. Post navigation.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. What do you invest in? It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Southern California apparently has no shortage of investors, entrepreneurs, and others eager to help budding entrepreneurs. Howard Marks: We're a startup accelerator, which will help entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? We have what is called a mult-dimensional, segmentation engine, that helps them understand their fans on the platform, and provide advertisers with specifics. Depending on who you are, and where you are, we can deliver different advertising.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

It's the same way that both investors and entrepreneurs used to think about New York with financial technology or advertising, because of the relationship to Madison Avenue and Wall Street. We're on our third fund, and are now investing out of that fund. Those areas were reflective of the LA startup economy.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Interestingly enough, that model works because right now, the CPMs for competing services are nothing like what terrestrial radio gets for their advertising. Where are you in terms of investment? I think we''re pretty good now, but technology has been an enormous investment. They should be much higher. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. He left to start his own firm, which only invests in data-based companies, who are all focused on accumulation and use of data. Jeff Green: I started my career in online advertising, as a media buyer.

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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.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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JULY 20, 2011

She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience.

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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. Thanks, and good luck!

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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. We're looking to build out our investment portfolio.

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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. We're looking to build out our investment portfolio.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. 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.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

You did pretty well at DoubleClick, and have been doing investments--why did you decide to get back into the game on the operational side? 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. How is the firm funded? Thanks, and good luck!

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APRIL 21, 2017

At the end, it's all about systems, the knowledge behind the databases, and making smart investment decisions. But what they also did is figure out, is instead of talking about whether something is a good product, how it works, and how much it costs, they always have advertised how that product makes you feel. Thanks, and good luck!

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APRIL 1, 2010

Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. Tags: evan rifkin interview startup entrepreneur advertising tagworld. Our space is pretty young. READ MORE>>.

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