socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2015

in a Series A funding, the startup disclosed Wednesday, for its development of a personalized video recommendation API and software toolkit. The funding came from Sierra Wasatch, BDMI, Progress Ventures, Allen DeBevoise (Mahinima), James Barge (Lions Gate), and others. Los Angeles-based Iris.tv has raised $5.3M

News 100

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Tell me about the business. Administer users?

Develop 396

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Tell me about the business. Administer users?

Develop 384

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. But don’t be fooled into expecting people to flock to your site after you tell a few friends. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

So this is for e-commerce sites, not in person purchases? Jack Bicer: Any e-commerce site can be enabled for Sekur.me. Jack Bicer: We have already launched, and have production sites. Jack Bicer: I''ve been in the software development business for over 30 years. We started because of abandoned shopping carts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. But, don’t be fooled into expecting people to flock to your site after you tell a few friends. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Startup 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. But don’t be fooled into expecting people to flock to your site after you tell a few friends. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Commerce 99

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. But don’t be fooled into expecting people to flock to your site after you tell a few friends. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Commerce 88

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We worked on all kinds of projects, including an online auction site for real estate, kiosks for airports, and music. Dan Rodrigues: Yes, we''ve raised around $70M in venture funding to date. The second firm, is Greenspring Associates, which is a fund of funds. At RealNetworks, I worked on streaming video.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We're about to do some marketing, but the hard part really isn't going to be getting people to visit the site, it's to get them to stick. We've only been around now for less than a year--we're still in beta--but we are now getting a million searches a month, and half a million unique monthly visitors to the site.

PPC 113

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. Finally, how is the startup funded?

Startup 193

Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

Incubator 150

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. If you search for pizza on a site like Yelp , you will see a list of places that are between 3.5 You would have to spend anywhere from 15 – 60 minutes to review all three places on a site like Yelp or TripAdvisor. Any funding raised?

Software Review 79

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

The firm is in the midst of raising a round of funding. I got exposed to the real estate market, and meanwhile, we also set up a mortgage company to fund buyers for those homes, and I was exposed to the mortgage industry. They can come to the site, and identify where they can qualify for a loan.

Startup 100

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. We did that with mobile ads, essentially promoting different mobile apps after a user would visit a site like TMZ or IGN.

Mobile 100

Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Darrius Thompson--who was also a co-founder at DivX--to learn more about the startup, the saga behind how the company started, and the funding. Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. What's the idea behind OpenCandy?

Software Review 100

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

CTO Coach 150

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. .

Guide 69

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive. Certainly, the use of common components will speed software development, as people realize it's not necessary to reinvent the wheel. So far so good.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital.

UCLA 102

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

Idealab 77

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

Venture Capital 285

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Venture Capital Funding 7. Off to the Races StrongMail is a digital messaging infrastructure software company. Off to the Races StrongMail is a digital messaging infrastructure software company. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. Relaxing 2.

Startup 40

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Jeff Atwood is the person responsible for product and user experience across all of their sites. 15 minutes. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. Those cultural normals are established through human connections: the night we all stayed late to get that release out the door, the day we celebrated our funding round or the day we landed our first big account. If they’re not I won’t fund.

Technical Advisors 335

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