socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

Altly detailed its plans to create an alternative to Facebook last week, complaining in a lengthy manifesto from Shapiro that an alternative to Facebook was sorely needed due to privacy and other issues with the social networking site. Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Ribbon, the developer of a social commerce platform which lets users list items for sale, distribute that through their social networks like Facebook , and accept credit card payments--said today that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago. .” and hasn’t abated.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

San Diego-based RealGifts has a new take on earning dollars from Facebook applications: allowing users to purchase real, tangible items from the popular social networking site. RealGifts is one of nearly 600 startups competing for funding from Facebook's fbFund, the $10M seed fund run by the Founders Fund and Accel Partners.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2011

Apptango, Unsocial's parent firm, is headed by Bruce Brown, and develops and designs mobile applications for clients. The firm said it is preparing for a Series A, and is using the new seed funding to expand its functionality. The service runs on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry applications. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The irony: a sad state that even with the huge number of social network applications we have at our disposal, we’re oftentimes lost, unable to keep up, or still lose touch so easily. It’s not your fault that we can only be social creatures to a certain extent before brain overload.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. We want to develop characters and we want to tell fictional stories rooted in reality.”

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. I also helped launch the Blu Ray format, and have been involved in many major technology launches, from a business development and production standpoint.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

In the age of social networking, everyone has hundreds--even thousands--of connections online. But, to a business person, those connections and network are only good as the real life relationships they create. What exactly is Rexter? We think if we do that well, we'll create value, and create a big, successful company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Total raised: $18.3mm. Read more: TechCrunch. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Total raised: $30mm.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. Yet, exploreB2B is an article-based platform for B2B, which is completely unique in the social landscape. Any funding yet?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Our focus is providing anyone who is active online already with the ability to leverage their existing social networks for monetized one-on-one conversations. From there the user promotes their access to their social networks through our easy social sharing, and others can come to their public profile and request a huddle.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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