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DECEMBER 29, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Alon Goren , the co-founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups. Alon Goren is a Co-Founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups.

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JULY 30, 2012

The move might actually be a positive one for Southern California, given that Levinsohn had been pulled away from investing and helping Southern California startups in 2010, when he was tapped by then Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to aid Yahoo. Levinsohn has not said what he'll do next after his stint as Yahoo CEO.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. It is human nature to protect your investment of money, time and brand in your enterprise. Think carefully for a moment: are you investing in your own form of buggy whip product or service today?

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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. Our investment in PlayVS and the subsequent launch of their Season Zero high school e-sports platform was very exciting.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Jones is also the former CEO of MySpace. These exits have really validated our team's vision and that the talent and ideas that we invest and believe in. What's the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Demand Media was venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., The IPO marks another huge success for Rosenblatt, who headed up Intermix Media when it sold MySpace to News Corp., and Generation Partners.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Today, we have a contribution from Michael Jones , the CEO of Science Inc. www.science-inc.com). READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Los Angeles area has seen a surge in the last month in companies and organizations looking to bolster entrepreneurial activity and startups in Southern California. www.science-inc.com), headed by Mike Jones , the former CEO of Myspace. I wanted to go back to both, with an operation and investment focus.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Carter was a co-founder/partner at Amplify.LA, and also was founder of Vertical Technologies, Thoughtstar, and S5 Wireless'' Hurff was formerly the EVP of Engineering at MySpace, and also was an EIR at Science Inc. David Carter: In my case, I really enjoy the culture of Southern California.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content. The search engine said one of the biggest investments is in entertainment, particularly navigating and finding what you are looking for from content on the web.

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MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Former CEO of Myspace. Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. Our Panelist Include. Mike Jones , Founder at Science Inc. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

First, in the late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster. By 1975, there were only two.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech communityk. We last talked with Michael Jones, CEO of MySpace. VCs traditionally view investment opportunities as a Venn diagram of management team, market, and technology. Great people make all the difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). LA investors are more pragmatic.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture. IPO in 1996).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. Event Details. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. Imagine having been pitched Facebook in a world where MySpace seemed to be running away with market share or more recently having been pitched Twitter when Facebook seemed unstoppable.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Scott Chisolm: The software came about, when we realized we had totally outgrown the system we were using to take registration for the events and to allow attendees to make donation, which was a combination of Evite, Paypal, and Myspace. The lead was Mithril Capital, the investment firm of Peter Thiel, and the co-lead was Salesforce Ventures.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 28, 2009

The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA), invite you to an exciting panel discussion with top digital media executives and venture capitalists followed by a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center. See [link].

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

For example, if you write a letter, you can post it to Facebook, or Myspace, or send a tweet about it--it's all integrated into the product itself. The lightbulb went on at MOTM (Editor's note: Kurt's project to network technology executives in Southern California). Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 He is a friend of mine.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

.” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. MarkLanday.

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JUNE 18, 2009

It's a place where 20-somethings can brand professionally with a profile, similar to Facebook or MySpace, but in a professional manner. We're financed through friends and family, and some angel investment early on. We're going lean and mean, and hope to operate over the next 1 or two years with 1-2 million in investment.

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MARCH 10, 2010

One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. We spoke to Robin about the new startup, his executive team, as well as his angel investing activity here. Robin Richards: Yes, I'm investing in smart young companies that are solving a need.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

We're excited to have them involved, because they've typically invested in companies around our stage in the media space, so they bring some unique set of relationships and domain expertise. We've also got Black Diamon, a local SoCAl fund, which is also leading the round. He's got lots of domain expertise in the area.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2008

The current huge players (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) It's is hard for people to justify the investment to integrate themselves into your community. Generally these are oriented around: Niches & Content Oriented Networks You see all kinds of niche networks coming up. Outdoors, faith-based, etc. are broad spectrum.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. I meet with Bay Area entrepreneurs all the time and am actively looking to make investments there.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. close behind.

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