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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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MARCH 11, 2014

LA has a serious technology scene. Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! And I’m proud of that, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Both are required to stay competitive. Measuring results in itself is not new.

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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. Now, we're investing in our own team, firm, and platform so we can further support those founders.

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APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about.

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MARCH 27, 2015

We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! What is urRadio?

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APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Greg Cohn , who brought us up to speed on what Burner is about, and the story behind the app. The example is a venture capitalist who might want to take calls from entrepreneurs, or a celebrity or someone who might be an expert in a field, like law or accounting. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, 4) A lot of successful entrepreneurs Get The Band Back Together. It was a typical storyline.

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Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Both are required to stay competitive. Measuring results in itself is not new.

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Startup Case Study Platform Yahoo 61

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

If you wanted to find someone who truly understands the convergence of the media and technology, you need to go no further than Peter Csathy , the CEO of newly launched CREATV Media (www.creatv.media). Peter Csathy: I'm an entrepreneur, a builder of companies. The lines between media and technology companies are blurring.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? tilofy location data science computer bigdata parsing filtering interview startup entrepreneur southern california' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial. Read more: peHUB.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The morning, spent with the incredible group of entrepreneurs fostering # bigDOCC (Big “D” Open Coffee Club – Dallas that is ), was focused on not just what it means to be a startup in Dallas, but Texas, and the role that industry plays therein. Offline engagement platform EyeQ. Though, I’m glad that I did.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. Is there anything specific you are looking for in an entrepreneur or company? That means a lot of different things.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

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JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. We can technology enable offline advertising.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

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. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. First of all, of those who haven't heard of SocialEngine, what is it?

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site?

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2011

Earlier this month, Fullerton-based HipGeo (www.hipgeo.com) announced a $500,000 funding round from Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. You might also use it to create another application. Thanks, and good luck!

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eHarmony Seed Funding Yahoo Examples 219

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

We caught up with the firm's CEO, Jason Spievak, to learn more about the firm's technology, as well as to hear about the company's experienced team, which came out of Callwave. Explain your technology? As technology people, we all live and breathe Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and AOL. call centers every year. READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! After working as an engineer for Apple, Sun Microsystems, Marimba, and other Silicon Valley titans, Van launched four new technology companies, the latest of which is GroupPrice.com. Van Jepson, CEO/Founder, GroupPrice.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. That uses things like RFID technology, such as you might have seen at Coachella.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

While we participate in a NYSE-like platforms, we utilize those real time auctions to better buy media, and buy media in a better way than what we've done in the past. I think it's fair to say we did that--Rightmedia sold to Yahoo, we sold to Microsoft, and Doubleclick sold to Google. It's a wide open space. READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

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JULY 27, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration platform, typically hosted by an IT department. But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. He also has a wealth of Internet technology background. A large site will run faster.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

FatTail is really interesting, in that for the last three years or so it's been stealthy and underground, and has perfected some great technology solutions in the area, and is now working with about 500 different publishers. Really good entrepreneurs are always evolving their strategy. Ross Levinsohn: The experience has been fantastic.

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SoCal Delicious

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). Well, that technology came from an L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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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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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. Bambi Francisco.

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