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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , knows the answer and he delights in telling the story of how MySQL ate Oracle's lunch and dinner. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus. Drinking The Ocean Through A Straw.

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Sophoi Acquired By Oracle

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based Sophoi , a developer of media IP mananagement software, has been acquired by Oracle, Oracle said Monday. Oracle said that Sophoi's products will become available as Oracle Media Intellectual Property Management. Sophoi was backed by Oracle which had funded the firm to the tune of $17.5M

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Oracle IP Hollywood Entertainment

Ad Analytics Start-Up EDO Raises $12 Million

L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Entertainment Data Oracle Inc., or EDO, a company that uses data collection and analysis to measure the effectiveness of TV ads, announced Nov. 1 that it raised $12 million in its first round of outside investment.

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SpotlightTMS Rolls Out On AppExchange

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2012

The company, whose software is used to track ticket allocation by corporate luxury suite owners, said the addition of support for AppExchange will allow Salesforce CRM users to measure the impact of sports and entertainment assets on revenue. READ MORE>>.

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Spotlight Sees Growth At New HQ

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

Spotlight , the venture backed provider of software-as-a-service for managing sports and entertainment tickets, said this week that it has moved from Woodland Hills to Calabasas, in expectation of growth in its staffing. The firm--which recently raised $2.5M The firm did not say how many employees it is looking to hire. READ MORE>>.

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Woodland Hills Calabasas Oracle Entertainment

REACH NeXT Announces Keynote Speaker Mark Douglas of SteelHouse

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2015

What do Oracle, eHarmony, and Rubicon Project all have in common? Started at Oracle as one of its first employees. Mark Douglas, CEO of SteelHouse ! That’s what! One of the greatest tech minds of our time, Mark Douglas will be speaking at REACH NeXT September 24th.

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Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Prior to Sphero, Rob was SVP of Global Creative at Disney Interactive, the digital entertainment and games segment of The Walt Disney Company. Started at Oracle as one of its first employees.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Silicon Beach Fest is Digital LA’s bi-annual startup entertainment festival featuring panels, showcases, hack-a-thons, and more. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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Startup Snapchat Social Media Venice

Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles has a strategic asset : content creation skills – In order for the Internet to go mainstream you first needed the infrastructure to support it from networking equipment (Cisco, Juniper) to databases (Oracle) to search (Google) and more recently mobile devices (Apple).

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IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

And this small box that we are as the entertainers of the evening, how could you explain that? I sat at the Grammys and saw Justin Timberlake and Cee Lo lose; Gnarls Barkley and the FutureSex/LoveSounds album. I ain’t trying to put you on blast, but I saw that man in tears. He deserved to win Album of the Year.

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Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas

IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

And this small box that we are as the entertainers of the evening, how could you explain that? I sat at the Grammys and saw Justin Timberlake and Cee Lo lose; Gnarls Barkley and the FutureSex/LoveSounds album. I ain’t trying to put you on blast, but I saw that man in tears. He deserved to win Album of the Year.

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas

Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. the entertainment industry. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. than in other parts of the city.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding

Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I see the same again with the entertainment industry. We all know about IMDB.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel. He thinks the history of media businesses show that they have three fundamental pillars: news, entertainment and advertising and you need to be great at all three of these things.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

Sophoi Acquired By Oracle

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Ad Analytics Start-Up EDO Raises $12 Million

SpotlightTMS Rolls Out On AppExchange

Spotlight Sees Growth At New HQ

REACH NeXT Announces Keynote Speaker Mark Douglas of SteelHouse

Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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