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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. Their only option is an IPO. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

David Bohnett , the founder of Geocities.com, and currently head of Los Angeles venture capital firm Baroda Ventures , has been appointed as a Trustee to the John F. Bohnett is one of the early pioneers of Southern California's technology industry, having founded GeoCities.com in 1994 and selling it to Yahoo in 1999.

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JUNE 26, 2013

Lynch and Curry are technology veterans, having managed cloud deployments for Yahoo and Ticketmaster. metacloud venture capital cloud computing private openstack rackspace deployment management software' The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Here's the contribution by Matt Stodder of StartupBoost LA (our apologies to Matt for the late post, our fault, not his!).

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JULY 12, 2013

That allows companies to reuse their existing capital, get full control over where their data resides, and where their performance is very deterministic, day in and day you, because you''re not sharing it with any other tenant on the public cloud. Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations.

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JULY 22, 2019

Matt Kozlov: We created this program, because there has been lots of recent advances in the growth of the commercial, military, and civil space economy here in our backyard in Southern California. We invest both capital and an enormous amount of time and mentorship to help companies build the best businesses, as rapidly as possible.

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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JUNE 7, 2016

According to Csathy, the new company will provide access to talent, expertise, network, resources, and capital in the media and tech-related industry.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. million Raised. and Schlumberger.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. So it would be unwise to say that funding outside of Silicon Valley will be easier. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. eBay and others. Get over it.

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JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. Here in Southern California, we do have a ways to go.

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APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. It''s really a Southern California story. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. You don’t. Get over it.

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. That said, we still need investors here. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Geography - Rincon is now very active in the Bay Area.

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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. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. He blogs here and tweets here. 1B+ Revenue.

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JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. If you’d like to see some of the best technologies and meet some of the brightest minds in beautiful Southern California, SIGN UP NOW. Event Details.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal.

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JUNE 9, 2016

The reason why, is we're more than a consulting firm, in that we also provide access to capital, and access to production, resources, and talent. Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Csathy was President and Chief Operating Officer of MusicMatch, Inc.,

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

We were going through the traditional route of seeking venture capitalists both here in Southern California and flying to Sand Hill road. We were at the tail end of it, and not until the 11th hour with one venture capital firm, when Shai just showed up. So, he called our office, then called me and sent us an email.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There's lots of media and blogs in Southern California, who could use it as well. From there, I left to start by first startup, Aphiniti, which raised capital but ended up undercapitalized and closed down. The last place I worked was at Yahoo. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

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MARCH 26, 2009

I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. We saw that the company was starting to have some potential to take venture capital, and got a little more involved, recognizing the need to step up management. I left, and one thing I started doing was angel investing.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And what happened in L.A.

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JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. So far so good. One of the firm's co-founders, Adam Lieber , is now the founder and CEO of Webtide (www.webtide.com), which is also based here.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. We all want larger amounts of capital to hire more senior people and to build bigger teams. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. NAME Google. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO.

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MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Shivani Siroya – CEO and Founder of InVenture. Michael Mothner – Founder of Wpromote.

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