socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

I moved down here to work as a large, $10 billion private equity fund with Ron Burkle, at Yucaipa Companies. The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 In the early 2000's, I'd worked as a consumer, retail investment banker.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

The start of this series was, Should Your Startup Announce Funding ? ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) It’s also important for recruiting, fund raising, business development and even company morale. Perception = reality.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Geni operates a Web 2.0 web site that allows users to create a family tree and share family information, events, and more. Geni was started by former PayPal founder David Sacks, and is venture backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. READ MORE>>

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Technology Council

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com will be presenting &# New Challenges and Innovative Solutions for Publishers in a Web 2.0 John Suh, CEO of Legalzoom.com will present &# Successful Launch Strategies for Online Businesses&#. Following Jason’s presentation he will [.]

VentureNet 100

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Talk about the new firm and the new fund? You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Geni runs a Web 2.0-style The firm was started by former PayPal founder David Sacks, and is venture backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. style site to help people create family trees and connect with relatives through social networking features. READ MORE>>

Geni 100

Geni Web 2.0 Social Network Sites 100

Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Financial terms were not disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday by GoFundMe.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

According to the BIA, it is launching a new Web 2.0 Santa Ana-based icanbuy, a developer of real estate related software, is powering a new model home site from the Building Industry Association of Southern California.

Sites 100

Sites Web 2.0 Southern California Web 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, lean startups or even the advent of AJAX.

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Design Startup Web 2.0 Tips 325

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I have talked extensively about “social proof&# in fund raising in the past. And before that Bryce Roberts who working alongside Tim O’Reilly (famed publisher and originator of Web 2.0 This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

So what Phonesheet.com does is takes that antiquated system and modernizes it, using a Web 2.0 Finally, how are you funded? We're privately funded. Traditionally, they hand-write those messages and those message slips become clutter, become lost, and they stay in your office when you're not there. It's friends and family.

Web 2.0 147

Web 2.0 Web Entertainment Hollywood 147

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

I think that's what is the main foundational element of a Web 2.0 James Segil: There's a couple of things to consider with growth, around what does it take to fund a company's growth. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

The company, which operates a network of online markets for outsourcing biomedical research services and supplies, has raised $24 million in a new round of venture funding. Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations.

Outsource 79

Outsource Marketing Research Organization 79

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service.

Web 71

Web San Diego Seed Funding Web Development 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

The latest type of solution is called a “web profile aggregator” built as a portal to a group of similar applications or premium content which can be accessed through a common login. Examples include FindMeOn.com, Mugshot, and Naymz. A new one I have used is called iLogon.

Startup 79

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 79

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

In addition, Web 2.0 was a proliferation of user generated content which created the need for Web 3.0, We love Web 3.0. Any Funding Yet? Every day, there are numerous examples of videos, articles, images, music that reach us via CHNL that simply don’t exist / could never exist outside of the internet.

Social Network 104

Social Network Networking Content Web 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. They were envious.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 We're in talks with a couple of agencies where we will provide an independent rating system, where they will go through the content, and we'll pay them to do that as part of our funding, and rate each script. You mentioned funding--you're raising a round?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 they released a new 2.0 I Be specific.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 You did find some angel funding, didn't you? Kurt Daradics: Yes, we have some funding from Dale Okuno, who is the CEO of EzData. He is a friend of mine.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0, With tech startups, they get funding and want to commit only for six to nine months until their next milestones, but real estate brokers won't allow such short term leases. They came here, and it worked.

Startup 100

Startup Web 2.0 Tsavo Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to fund in the video creation world. Filmaka is the creation of Deepak Nayar who is the producer of films such as Buena Vista Social Club and Bend it Like Beckham. Participation. At whatever level.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. The MRF was a committed fund of Accel, Venrock, AT&T and William Morris (one of LA’s largest talent agencies). Within 48 hours of meeting him we had a term sheet agreeing to fund $1.6

Invest 303

Invest Company Companies Web 2.0 303

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 a couple of people that worked for Softbank plus me got together and with sponsorships from Softbank created a separate venture fund.”. “Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. was starting.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0,

Web 100

Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. They were envious.

Startup 176

Startup Entrepreneur Venture Capital Ideas 176

Xconomy

JULY 13, 2018

Humans have had a drastic physical evolution recently—one that has notably taken only a few years. While the evolution from hunched primates to homo sapiens took tens of millions of years, we needed only about a decade to develop an arched neck that is perennially looking down at a smartphone—presumably one with a social media app open.

Social Media 49

Social Media Media Web 2.0 Develop 49

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

The National Science Foundation mainly funds professors to do research. Government-owned venture capital funds, like the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel ( [link] ) or the USDA's former AARC may be a great hybrid strategy (government-owned, private appearance). One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0"

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor.

Avalon 56

Avalon Invest Social Media Media 56

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

billion under management, in a number of funds, and we have been investing for the last year or two out of our existing $300 million fund. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0, Jon Miller and myself -- Jon is the former chairman and CEO of AOL--combined efforts with an existing venture group to form Velocity.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

After the adhesive products maker Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY ) recently made a $3 million investment in San Diego-based Wrapify , we tracked down Wrapify CEO James Heller, and stuck him with a few questions about the deal.

Advertising 45

Advertising Glendale San Diego Incubator 45

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 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.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Marketing Web 2.0 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

Our competition was well funded with many millions of dollars, well armed with hundreds of employees and far down the path. We had a few wooden desks and a desktop computer that served as my personal workstation, our web server and our ad server. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40