socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Spotlight said its customers now include Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, NBCUniversal, Stanley Black & Decker, and Principal Financial Group. Spotlight is led by Tony Knopp, who, along with his co-founders, was previously at Stubhub. The company is backed by POint Judith Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Marketing Oracle Calabasas Sales 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. You can register for the event at Digital Family Reunion. event socaltech50 awards entrepreneur entrepreneurship feature dfr2013'

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. billion in recurring run-rate revenue and growing while Siebel is sold to Oracle for a mere $5.8 I am reminded about how dismissive traditionally television media is about YouTube – even to this day. About how Microsoft viewed Google Apps.

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Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Douglas has also served at Oracle. Welch joins from Experian Interactive Media, and prior to that was at LowerMyBills.com before it was acquired by Experian. Rubicon said that it has hired Mark Douglas as Vice President of Engineering, and Seizo Welch as Vice President of Finance.

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eHarmony Clearstone Oracle Advertising 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

This enabled our partnership to raise its third Frontier Fund offering, focused on early stage media and technology companies. There are many silos, and several big players (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.), Several companies in the Frontier portfolio earned liquidity in 2014, providing significant profits to our partners. READ MORE>>.

Oracle 100

Oracle Southern California Venture Capital Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Strategic investors are looking to consolidate their positions : The top 6 buyers in tech & media account for 27% of all purchases. When you look at the likes of Cisco, HP and Oracle (note they bought Sun) it seems a return to this model.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. Salesforce was very good at managing the 1-year roadmap so at any point in time we had a pretty good idea about what we would be developing and what we wouldn’t.

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. I attended events.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. You also need marketing muscle.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

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. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it. All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown. We have an abundance of ethnicities, culinary options, music and culture.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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. Generalized email blasts and social media ads may be great for finding interest in your services, but these are not enough to close and maintain new clients.

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Services Technical Review Social Media Case Study 121

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. I attended events.

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Scherzay was previously the CTO at CrowdGather, and also had founded social media software firm FavRav. We are looking at a market which is primarily mid-level, where they are too big for using Quickbooks as their solution, but they''re not big enough to use an Oracle or SAP. What is Thaeres about? They''re left in the middle ground.

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Startup Oracle Customer Custom 159

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2014

Todd Davis: I''m a veteran of Oracle, and had been CEO of an equipment finance company for the construction industry globally. It gives you full trust and transparency on what is happening, and not only applies to construction, but to regulators, to developers, and owners. What''s your background, and how did you get into this?

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Mobile Startup Oracle Los Angeles 133

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 There have also been many high profile financings of infrastructure players to support these gaming platforms including Offerpal Media, SuperRewards (bought by AdKnowledge), Gambit and more recently LA-based Sometrics.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Every region needs its local media & events. on to their next companies and that produced Demand Media, a public company who even with a slight recent reduction in share price is still trading at $1.3 Not to mention they have the highest profile VC / blogger Fred Wilson of AVC. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There's lots of media and blogs in Southern California, who could use it as well. An example might be Demand Media, which as a ton of corporate portals and content sites, and would be an ideal target to target customers in global markets. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks. It also supports blogs.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony. Social Media: Snapchat. Representing Southern California industries ranging from movies, TV, web, music, social media, video games, and more, Digital LA’s reach includes more than 40,000 people.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you have a big challenge that you can’t afford to meet. You always need a budget for marketing, but don’t spread it evenly or randomly across digital media, social media, direct, and traditional channels. Realistically characterize the competition.

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Entrepreneur Competition Customer Custom 63

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out. One is the traditional buyer, the Microsofts, Oracles, Googles, and Ciscos of the world, with their cash. There are four kinds of buyers in M&A.

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Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

DigiSynd manages Disney’s brand presence in the social media space. Started at Oracle as one of its first employees. Plays an Advisory role to multiple startup companies in the media space. Brandon was one of the first to recognize and utilize social media throughout Disney’s parks and resort business.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

There are presently many new efforts under way to refine and improve the world of social media, some of which we’ll explore here and many which are just beginning. Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media. Poor integration between social media and location services.

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2014

Irvine-based online real estate marketplace Auction.com --fresh off a massive funding round from Google--is further bolstering its board, with the addition of former Oracle Chief Financial Officer Jeff Epstein. Epstein also was CFO of DOubleCick, King World Productison, and Nielsen''s Media Measurement and Information Group.

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Oracle Google Venture Capital Capital 124

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Obviously they wish they would have figured this out a bit more quickly, but as a young team I personally cut them a little bit more slack than I would if it were Oracle, for example. Find other media outlets to tell your story. Trust me, these advisors will prove invaluable if you don’t have a lot of media experience.

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Startup Press Training Media 329

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. All of TriNet’s services are supported by a team of dedicated human capital consultants and experts, and enabled by best-in-class HR technology from Oracle-PeopleSoft.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

business to Oracle Corp. have reportedly stalled as the Biden administration eases pressure on the social media company’s Beijing-based parent company. Plans for the sale of TikTok’s U.S. and Walmart Inc.

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Oracle Sales Social Media Report 223

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. A man who every year has come to upstage most acts at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with some crazy rant.

Search Engine Optimization 40

Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. A man who every year has come to upstage most acts at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with some crazy rant.

Search Engine Optimization 40

Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

President Donald Trump said has has given his stamp of approval “in concept” on the Oracle bid for the U.S. operations of the wildly popular social media app, TikTok, according to a report from Bloomberg. 12 stay, keeping it up through the US election and Oracle dealmaking. And the U.S.

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Oracle Report Social Media Demand 320

L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 5, 2020

operations to Oracle Corp. the social media platform notched a victory last week in its fight against the Trump administration. While TikTok awaits further developments in the proposed sale of its U.S. and Walmart Inc.,

Oracle 130

Oracle Social Media Platform Sales 130

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210