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Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media

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Messenger : Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media. In this interview, Mark discusses how his experiences at Oracle, eHarmony and the Rubicon Project contributed to the creation of his latest venture, SteelHouse Media. 4) Did I read correctly that you were part of the original development team for Oracle Financials?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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Patrick Quigley: People often have the wrong perception of Vantage Media. However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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Immediately after the acquisition we held meetings with all of the integrated CMS vendors and highlighted to them which bits we were going to make our core platform and which bits we weren’t planning to offer ourselves. Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. billion and Omniture to Adobe for an astounding $1.8

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

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The platform works across messengers, starting with the ubiquitous messenger that exists in 3.2Bn devices: SMS. 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. Sold it in 2014.