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MARCH 10, 2010

Audiolife's software allows artists to sell downloads, ringtones, CDs, and other merchandise from their web sites, blogs, or social networking sites. Tags: audiolife music ecommerce artist venture capital angel investment. Audiolife is headed by Brandon Hance. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. We wanted to tackle that problem, by using a social network. In that network, we bring in content from all over the web.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

ShopIt said that the round is the first tranche of a $7M capital raise planned for the firm. Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products. The funding came from Toronto, Canada-based Emerson Ventures and Propulsion Ventures.

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JULY 7, 2010

Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 And so it goes with social networking.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

They did it entirely through social networking. Capital to date? $20k Get Angel capital and build a prototype. TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. You can go to virtually any city in the world and meet a local who will tell you about their city. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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JUNE 29, 2011

in investment capital from FirstMark Capital, as well as angel investors Betsy Bernard, the former President of AT&T; Kai Huang, founder of Guitar Hero; Jim Nordstrom, former president of Nordstrom; David Solomon, Global co-head of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, and others. The firm said it is backed with $3.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1.

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JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month.

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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. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. 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.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. We then spoke about startups.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group. Gary Bishop: My background, prior to Network Automation, was in the financial technology marketplace.

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. We started out with a laser focus on the independent musician, where one of the biggest issues is that they don't have capital for upfront inventory.

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JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Zumbox was essentially the USPS online, where we had networked street addresses so that email cloud flow online the same way as it did offline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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AUGUST 3, 2009

What is Jute Networks? Our company, Jute Networks, is a startup that is about a year and a half old. We build web software that improves the ability of people to manage their networks. We're specifically not a social network. People can see a prototype at our web site, and videos of our prototype.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. How do you use LinkedIn?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

eQuibbly is a free web application combining online arbitration and mediation with crowd voting and social network involvement for free, fair and fast justice than the traditional court system. According to Lance Soskin, founder and president of eQuibbly. Why eQuibbly.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Thus is venture capital. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

I spend so much of my public life talking about the challenges of startups precisely because it’s not for most people and with Shark Tank and Silicon Valley and The Social Network we as a society have so glamorized startups that we expect them to be all fun and games. In reality working at startups often sucks. ” No.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. There has been nine years of university R&D, serious Computer Science work, that we have been able to capitalize on.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

We told you about young twins behind Social network LAGbook , Today we caught up with two 19 year-old entrepreneurs from Naperville, Illinois. Unfortunately we can’t give too much information about how we’re going to monetize DinnDinn, but what we can say is that the dynamics of web 3.0 Juckins and Jeremy A. will be our guide!

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? I’m surprised at the number of people who aren’t good at tracking down relationships in social networks. You need to make it an effort by researching on the web and going and doing 50 coffee meetings with people. Most people are not obsessive.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital.

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APRIL 28, 2010

I have been involved with a number of companies that had raised a large amount of money, and one of the things I really wanted to do, was do something that didn't require a large amount of venture capital--something that we could do with a small, lean team. So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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