socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Irvine-based Devise Interactive , an interactive agency providing web design and other services, said today that it has been acquired by Vincit , a publicly traded company based in Finland. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Vincit provides UI/UX and software development services.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Interested in improving your skills in web design or photography while on the go? Fans of online, video site lynda.com now have the option to access that company''s extensive library of video tutorials on the go, through a new Android app, the company said this morning.

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Web Design Training Course Education 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based cloud and web hosting operator Media Temple said this morning that it has named Lou Kikos as the company's new Vice President of Marketing. Media Temple focuses on providing its web hosting to web designers, developers, app publishers, creative agencies and enterprises.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

After presenting a “state of the company” report at a national meeting of resellers for a company where I sat on the board, I was approached by one of the audience members, complimenting my presentation and stating, “I have a problem. I’ve been offered $15 million for my company and my partner is suing me for all I am worth.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting service provider Media Temple said Thursday that it has launched a new, shared hosting solution, which is based on its existing shared hosting platform, Grid. The company said the new offering specifically is targeted at freelance web designers, developers, and small and medium agencies.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2018

Pacific Palisades-based fusionZONE Automotive , a developer of website software for automotive dealers, said Wednesday that it acquired MotorWebs , a web design company that specializes in creation and management of car dealership websites. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. MotorWebs was based in Seattle.

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Pacific Palisades Web Design Web Acquisition 100

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Almost anyone who has sold a company has a story to tell about their good deal, the problems with the buyer, a last-minute change of terms, or more. I’ve been offered $15 million for my company and my partner is suing me for all I am worth. How the industry was growing around the company. The year was 1998. What can I do?”.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Such service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2015

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , the online learning and education company backed by Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity, TPG Capital and Meritech Capital Partners, has bolstered its executive staff in the enterprise area, saying this morning that it has named Erik Nierenberg as General Manager of its Enterprise business. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Many people start companies arse backwards. When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

With this fast pace industry the elegant design we see if websites, is sometimes lost in translation. He and his company, Rocksauce, make sure to add high quality design back into each of the apps they create. After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. It simply makes more sense.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more. The courses include, app building, web development, Online Entrepreneurship and much more. We hope to see more companies follow this model in the near future.

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Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Amazon previously operated a service called Amazon Webstore which was “a complete commerce platform” that enabled “companies to leverage Amazon technology and expertise in building and managing their direct-to-consumer business.” A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. I had always kind of been a computer nerd, and had been starting companies in high school. Why it is you were successful, where they weren't?

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Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bruce, along with his wife Lynda, created a learning company from their garage, initially by holding in-person classes and later selling VHS tapes via mail order. Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous.

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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Startup Advertising Web Design Venture Capital 40

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. While young people are definitely the dominant demographic in shared office spaces, the ecosystem of people, companies, and industries is actually becoming incredibly diverse. .

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Technical Review Study Web Design Startup 82

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. In our first year in businss, we had $1.7

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned.

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Web Design Web Design Sites 58

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Sites 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. TreeHouse is also a video company. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. Full stop.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

90% of all users will never contribute anything to your company. And more embarassingly to me Garindra Prahandono gave me this link to an article written by the guru of web design, Jakob Nielsen about the 1/9/90 rule written back in 2006. Most UGC sites try to spend time converting lurkers to contributors. Don’t.

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Technical Review Writing Content Sites 294

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This is a core fundamental function of all web design that deals with “conversions” Ads work this way, shopping carts work this way, and Facebook’s OpenGraph absolutely works this way.

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News Hulu Commerce Sites 104

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Balderdash Developers Log(n) Consultants RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers. Powered by Personforce. Latest on TechCrunch TV. “In the Studio,” TwitSpark’s Davy Kestens Carves Out His Own Path.

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Southern California SoCal Startup Tips 77

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Companies that take these creative fee structures are usually solo practitioners or companies with a limited number of partners who are amenable to accepting such compensation. Any service provider that is willing to bet the business they are working for is going to be worth considerably more in the future than it is today.

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Equity Services Startup Google 40

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Companies that take these creative fee structures are usually solo practitioners or companies with a limited number of partners who are amenable to accepting such compensation. Any service provider that is willing to bet the business they are working for is going to be worth considerably more in the future than it is today.

Equity 40

Equity Services Startup Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The Resumator''s intuitive recruiting and applicant tracking solution has been used by over 12,000 companies, which have processed more than 4 million resumes and filled 36,000 jobs. The company’s clients include: Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable. . That company failed.”.

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Startup Entrepreneur Design Santa Barbara 250

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time).

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Services Web Design Startup Pricing 265

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot.

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