socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In one of Southern California''s biggest holiday events of the year, over 700 people joined us last night at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles to celebrate the region''s rising stars, the socalTECH 50.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives. But we do have great technology developers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services firm Media Temple has tapped two technology vets as President and COO, and Chief Technology Officer, the company announced this morning. The firm said it has named Russell P. Reeder as its President and COO, and Albert Lopez as CTO. Redder reports to CEO Demian Sellfors.

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Media Chief Technology Officer Oracle Southern California 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

He also has served as a SVP and GM of Local.com, Vayusphere, Vitria Technology, and Oracle Corporation. Local.com bought Los Angeles-based iTwango on January 7th; iTwango's technology powers daily deals and group buying offers similar to Groupon and other competitors. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Unified Dispatch was located in Los Angeles Business Technology Center (BTC), and headed by Dan Tampkin, who has previously been at Momentum Venture Partners, Computer Motion, Robert W. Duggan & Associates, Oracle, and the SEC. Tamkin and a set of angel investors had acquired Unified Dispatch six years ago as a restart play.

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Altadena Oracle Demand Los Angeles 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. Chance Barnett , Crowdfunder (Los Angeles, crowdfunding). Allison Beal , StyleSaint (Los Angeles, fashion). Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps).

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based IVT , the web casting firm run by Greg Pulier , has announced that it has raised $5.5M IVT serves clients such as Oracle, Rohm & Hass, IBM, and NEC particularly for corporate communications, investor relations, and training webcasts. in a Series B funding. Monitor and Tudor are prior investors in the firm.

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Oracle IBM IBM Training 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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Technical Review Oracle Software Review Ideas 123

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project announced this morning that it has hired three new executives. Hulse joins from iPass, and also has served at Frontbridge and Tumbleweed; Harries was most recently at Oracle; McHargue joins from AutoWeb.

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Clearstone Oracle Web Advertising 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project, which develops online advertising optimization software, announced this morning that it has hired on two executives to the firm. Douglas joins the firm from eHarmony, where he was the firm's Vice President of Technology. Douglas has also served at Oracle.

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eHarmony Clearstone Oracle Advertising 100

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

Next week is the Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), one of the longest running technology conferences held in Los Angeles. It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. We've seen some notable successes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2014

So, we were surprised to learn about the backing that Los Angeles-based mobile app provider TRUCKAST (www.truckast.com) has from investor Gary Winnick (who co-founded Global Crossing). We replace nearly all of that communications technology with a single mobile app. That creates huge inefficiency and mistakes.

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Mobile Startup Oracle Los Angeles 133

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area.

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Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. Solve one problem really well.

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Entrepreneur Competition Technical Review Oracle 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. Solve one problem really well.

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Startup Competition Technical Review Oracle 103

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. Bill received his B.S.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Thus one of my key messages to entrepreneurs, as a business advisor and angel investor, is “focus.” For example, it’s all too common for a technology entrepreneur to highlight a new battery technology as the ultimate power for smartphones, medical heart pacemakers, and home lighting. Realistically characterize the competition.

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Entrepreneur Competition Customer Custom 63

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc). Technology: Sensay is a human routing engine that makes anonymous peer-to-peer chat and transactions possible between strangers. IoT: Rufus Labs.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

But, as we gained adoption, and the barrier got much smaller, especially when se started signing up very large agencies, such as Orange County, the City of Los Angeles, and the State of Washington. For the last few years, we've been working on our full blown human resources platform, which is built on the latest technology.

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Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

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Santa Barbara Thousand Oaks Oracle Ventura 53

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. No one is taking the time to solve actually extending this innovative technology to where content resides. It also supports blogs.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. PERSON David Sacks PERSON|David Sacks.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us. Why do I say that?

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It’s why the best angels and seed investors are local and why the best independents are, too. I had the former head of Oracle, UK, Philip Crawford , on my first board and I found his advice and experience invaluable. Local means likely more time. Local means more hands-on mentorship.

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Startup Writing Venture Capital Oracle 187

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. Local Angel Community / Recycled Capital. It’s important.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317