Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Digital advertising spend is projected to grow 25% this year to $191 billion, and Google (69%), Facebook (59%), Snapchat (116%) and Twitter (87%) all just reported rapid growth in their year over year advertising revenues. Why Did I Invest in Trust? that’s where the customers are. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture.

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APRIL 26, 2012

A report today from Bloomberg says that Providence Equity Partners , the private equity firm which owns part of Los Angeles-based Hulu , is selling its stake to the firm's other owners in a deal valuing the firm at about $2 billion. and News Corp. No details on the deal have been announced. Hulu's other owners are Walt Disney Co.,

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Tech.Co

MAY 16, 2024

In addition to the regular pressures of running a business in this climate, Black business owners have to contend with discriminatory lending practices from banking institutions and racial prejudices from buyers – with a recent report revealing that 76% of Black business owners claim they’ve experienced racism from a customer.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M billion in investments in 681 deals in the first quarter of 2010.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In the second big piece of news in Los Angeles from Chinese company Bytedance , Bytedance said on Friday that it will invest $50M in a Series B funding in Los Angeles-based Live.me , a developer of an online livestreaming service. is a subsidiary of Chinese company Cheetah Mobile. Bytedance also bought LA's Flipagram earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

San Diego-based Phenomix , adeveloper of diabetes drugs, has shut down, according to reports. The news of the shutdown was first reported by Xconomy. The firm--which was developing drugs to help treat diabetes--apparently has laid off most of its staff, and is looking for a buyer for the assets.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. We built that into the authority in luxury in 18 different countries. That was our plan.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Intercept (NASDAQ: ICPT ) reported interim data from a Phase 3 study showing its drug, obeticholic acid (OCA), reduced liver scarring in NASH patients. This week, one company, Intercept Pharmaceuticals, solidified its lead. But how much will being first to the finish line mean when all is said and done?

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APRIL 26, 2011

News of the demise of Los Angeles venture capital fund The Mailroom Fund , the joint venture capital effort of Accel Partners, Venrock, the William Morris Agency and AT&T, is finally trickling out. According to a report today by Fortune, the fund's closure came due to loss of interest at William Morris after its merger with Endeavor.

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MAY 21, 2009

The Angel Capital Association reported this week that investing activity by angel investments groups dropped by nine percent between 2008 and 2007, and 40 percent of angel groups expect overall investment to decrease again this year. Tags: angel investment venture capital report.

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JUNE 12, 2014

Technology giant Google is reportedly looking to take a stake in Mojave, California-based space tourism and spaceship developer Virgin Galactic , according to a report Thursday evening.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. Keep it coming.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

Los Angeles-based YouTube network Maker Studios has agreed to buy Blip , according to reports today. Blip was venture backed by Ambient Sound Investment, Bain Capital, and Lauder Partners. News of the sale first came via AllthingsD. Blip operates an online, video site focused on webseries. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 13, 2015

In what has been a constant, Snapchat -all-the-time news week, the Venice, California-based messaging company has apparently cut loose its COO , Emily White, as CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel has decided to take a more hand-on role at the company. READ MORE>>. snapchat executive emily white evan spiegel instant messaging'

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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APRIL 12, 2013

The good news is--the accelerators seem to be driving a lot of volume of deals overall, and deals seem to be spread across the different accelerators/incubators in the region. Tied for second, were LaunchpadLA and MuckerLab , where we tallied 15 investments each in their portfolio companies over the last year.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The company has stated that it plans to spend a total of $500 million on podcasting investments, meaning it still has a few hundred million to burn. Above all, this news points to a big shift in the podcast industry. The news was a long time coming. The news comes with three big benefits for Spotify.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

In what can only be good news for the ecosystem of content providers and startup firms here in Southern California, Google's YouTube said Sunday that it is expanding into Europe, and adding more than 50 original channels to the 100 it introduced last year.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

President Trump’s opioid commission released its final report this week, calling for expansion of drug courts, better physician training, and penalties for insurers that don’t cover treatment. But as an Xconomy report noted, the pipeline of alternatives is thin due to. One option is offering other, non-addictive medications.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2022

Investment into alternative proteins, for example, plant-based meats and dairy substitutes was $5 billion in 2021, according to both the Good Food Institute and Crunchbase data. Over the past year we’ve seen news from Beyond Meat, whose nuggets went into KFC restaurants , its pieces into Panda Express and its tenders into grocery stores.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Out of the 4,188 respondents to Clarify Capital’s 2022 survey , 1,007 had started their own company post-layoff, PC Mag reports. The new CEOs and company founders reported making around $13,000 more per year on average than they were making at their previous jobs. Challenges for New Businesses.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 3, 2016

Irvine-based vehicle telematics provider Spireon reported Thursday afternoon that it has reached three million subscribers to its platform, and has named a new CEO. Weiss replaces Marc Brungger, who now apparently is running his own investment and consulting firm. The company said it has named Kevin Weiss to the CEO position.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the vast network of entertainment and music related blogs and websites, said that it is now number one in entertainment news, according to rankings from comScore. The firm did not report number of monthly unique users.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

i am deeply invested in the drama surrounding lil miquela and now you all have to be too. It’s less well-known that the company is backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital investment — firms like Sequoia Capital. Around this time McFedries also began investing in companies, according to AngelList.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

In what looks like some good news for Irvine-based electric auto firm Fisker Automotive , the supplier for that firm's electric batteries, A123 Systems , said today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a Chinese firm, to inject $450M into A123. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

In my experience, the good news is that everyone is becoming more and more comfortable with relationships via the new media and technology. The bad news is that I still find a lot of you who don’t use these tools effectively, or haven’t learned the rules for nurturing remote relationships.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 13, 2020

The new bill will offer paid sick leave, stronger unemployment benefits, free virus testing and more money for food assistance and Medicaid and was approved only after 13 phone calls between the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, according to a report in The New York Times.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

What's the biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? Michael Terpin: My personal biggest news in 2017 was moving to Puerto Rico. He founded in Los Angeles and sold Marketwire, the first Internet-based press distibution company, which earlier this year was sold again to NASDAQ for a reported $200 million.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

[Email readers, continue here…] Whatever the problem, the person or board to whom you report does not want to hear about it after it has become a threat to the enterprise. I have been a board member a number of times when either the board discovers a surprise or management delivers the news too late.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When should a VC invest? It’s the only way forward in capitalism, and it’s worth every investment you can make. Theodore Schleifer at Recode reported a rare deep dive into the internal intrigue at a prominent VC firm, in this case Mithril Capital. Quality tech news from around the web. When should you start a company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2021

In fact, they usually invest because they have extensive experience in your business domain, often have strong convictions on what it takes to succeed, and probably would like you to do it their way. Investors will expect at least one seat on the board, and expect a board report from you each month on key items.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Etsy revealed the change in emails to sellers as well as a report to investors yesterday. It'll help the company invest in marketing, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman says: “We have demonstrated our ability to make improvements that directly translate into more sales for our sellers, as evidenced by record sales per seller in 2021.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year? John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. John Greathouse: I have nothing earth shattering to report, as I think most folks are plugged into the trends that matter. Welcome to the 1990's!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If you start with a POV rather than product features / functions or your own internal news story you’re already a long way down the track of answering the above questions. They are an investment bank that targets the technology & media sectors. So how exactly do you break out then? Think about Luma Partners.

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