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AUGUST 5, 2013

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which provides online marketing services for local businesses, is further expanding the breadth of its business today, saying it has launched a new back-end office operations management product. reachlocal internet search marketing back office operations software' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of services to help small and medium sized businesses advertise online, said Thursday that it has opened up a new office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ReachLocal said it now has over 800 consultants in North America, Australia and Europe serving over 18,000 advertisers. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which offers up local, online marketing services for small and medium sized businesses, said this morning that it has released a chunk of software to the open source community, to help others develop cross-platform, mobile apps. The move looks to be ReachLocal''s first large scale, open source effort.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of online marketing services for small and medium-sized businesses, is expanding its reach in Southeast Asia. ReachLocal said that Webnatics will provide a trained, dedicated sales force focused on offering up its SMB products and services to local businesses in Singapore.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized businesses place online ads, has strengthened its ties into Google AdWords today, saying it has been added to the Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner (PSP) Program. Google did not say how many partners have been added to the program.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said this morning that it has named Josh Claman as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Claman joins the company from Dell, where he was most recently Dell's Vice President and General Manager of the Public and Large Enterprise Business in the Americas. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of local online marketing services for small and medium sized businesses, reported its results Tuesday, saying that it had $77.1M ReachLocal said it now expects consolidated revenues in the range of $80.0 in revenues. for the quarter. to $291.5M. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of local online marketing services to small and medium sized businesses, reported strong growth in its international revenues, in addition to continued revenue growth at the company. ReachLocal reported a revenue growth of 24 percent--to $99.8M READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of online advertising and marketing services to small and medium-sized businesses, said today that it has opened up several new local sales offices, bringing its total to 54 offices. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal filed for an IPO this morning, saying that it is looking to raise up to $100M. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, citi, Piper Jaffray, Needham & Company, and Broadpoint.Gleacher. Accoriding to ReachLocal, it had net income of $11.6M Tags: reachlocal local advertising merger acquisition.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com) was born in the age of Internet search marketing, and helped define Internet marketing from local service providers--letting people know about your local business via the Internet. There's also ClubLocal, which we think of as the Uber for home services. In a sense, it completes the funnel.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2009

500 listing was that Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a venture backed provider of local online marketing services, hit $147M in revenues in 2008, up significantly from $4.4M magazine ranked the firm as the 39th fastest-growing private company in America. Tags: reachlocal inc500 revenue search engine advertising.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a provider of local search advertising services, has topped Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500 list, an annual listing of companies ranked by their five year growth rates. According to the list, ReachLocal topped the list with a five-year, fiscal growth rate of 146,050 percent.

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MAY 8, 2015

Both Zorik and Michael very successfully took ReachLocal from just a small startup to a large, public company. The two have now turned their attentions to Serviz, which offers up on-demand home services, such as plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and other areas. We're really reinventing and reimagining the delivery of home services.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small businesses buy search engine advertising, has inked a strategic alliance with Google in the United Kingdom, the firm announced today. ReachLocal said that it has become an "Authorised Reseller" of Google's AdWords in the UK, through its UK site, ReachLocal UK. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Sherman Oaks-based Serviz , the on-demand home services company founded by serial entrepreneurs Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline, has been acquired by Porch , another online marketplace for home services. Gordon and Kline previously founded ReachLocal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Sherman Oaks-based Serviz , the on-demand handyman service led by former ReachLocal head Zorik Gordon, announced today that it has raised $12.5M The company has now raised $20M in funding. The company helps connect homeowners with handymen and other home services, such as plumbers, electricians, and others.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Bizzy , the social recommendations website and mobile apps owned by Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal, has updated its iPhone app this week. The new iOS 5 compatible app adds "Guides", users who are specifically being features for their use of the service and knowledge of food, as well as new sharing features. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links. In fact, a recent study released by Ernst & Young found that there were eight companies in Southern California, out of 22 total in California, who were lined up for an IPO in Q4.

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JULY 31, 2013

Adair was head of North America Sales Finance & Operations at Google; Day was Chief Accounting Officer at ReachLocal; Arth had served at AT&T, Toyota Financial Services, and Helio; Pechacek was at Kennedy Wilson; and Copple at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. READ MORE>>. rubicon project executive hiring internet advertising'

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Chief Technology Officer ReachLocal Southern California Advertising 164

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Los Angeles Mayor's Council on Innovation and Industry (LAMCII) has been meeting since March, to help identify the top issues facing growth companies in the region, and to propose activity to spur additional entrepreneurial activity and innovation, according to the group.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The company said it has added Margot Frankel as Creative Director, and Edan Portaro as vice President, Services. Portaro was most recently at ReachLocal Xchange, and also has served at NameMedia, Oversee.net, Yellowpages.com, and Monster Worldwide.

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JUNE 17, 2010

The long list of Southern California high tech companies lined up for the public markets just got a little longer this morning, with the addition of Inphi Corp. So far, two companies-- Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which completed its IPO in May, and Carlsbad-based Maxlinear , which hit the markets in March, have had successful IPOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry. And I made the prediction that within the next 2 years RIM (the parent company of Blackberry) will not be independent. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) held its annual awards event last night, honoring former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, as well as local, venture backed companies in a banquet last night at the Luxe hotel in Los Angeles. Other IPO finalists were RealD , ReachLocal , and Inphi.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Whatever you’re trying to brand – your company, your community or yourself – this is the first exercise I would recommend that you start with. We’ll work our asses off and build huge companies that will define the next generation of American’s lives.” This is the list I would start with.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

He’s a great guy and taught me a bunch of new things about affiliate marketing and his company. Santa Barbara born companies such as DoubleClick, ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick are all leaders in the space (the last three are all now owned by ValueClick who’s founder is a major investor in Make It Work).

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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