TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. She created and launched an overall brand and a swim collection , then came the book deal ( “This is Not a Fashion Story: Taking Chances, Breaking Rules, and Being a Boss in the Big City” is expected out May 2020).

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the venture backed online entertainment content network, has snagged two editors for a new, yet-to-be launched celebrity site, the firm said today. The company said the new property will "significantly extend" its position in the entertainment category. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

One the most frequent questions asked of me by entrepreneurs is, "How can I become a Venture Capitalist?" There are many paths into the VC world, but they can generally be lumped into two categories: (i) serial entrepreneurship, and (ii) tech-oriented investment banking. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Oprah’s thoughts are group into four general categories: Fear, Failure, Success and Humility. Within a few months of its launch, she was consistently beating Phil Donahue, the then-current national king of daytime television. Her show’s local success led to a meeting in Los Angeles with several ABC network executives.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. We already have live, paying customers in several categories.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

I've been doing that, and building the tools and networks for those brands for a long time, but I wanted to try my hand at an actual, physical product. Your last venture was venture backed--how about this time? We will be doing a venture round. We're a good pair in that regard. Gordon Gould: We have some angels.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

So step by step, she began the works on what is now Grokker.com , the expert video network, to address this need. The network produces its own videos in-house, featuring a notable network of expert yogis, chefs, trainers and fitness instructors, and also curates a selection of the best videos from around the Web. That was 2012.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. Its network speed is decent too, but its use is restricted to the US, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands. VPN Startup tool: VPN Price: Free Hide.me VPN is the best complimentary VPN we've tested. While Hide.me

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. If there’s an app that is very simple in nature, the Yo app belongs to that category. million in venture capital after getting the initial $1 million dollar last month. And why is that?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

More than 150 speakers include top executives from local accelerators, venture capitalists, entertainment powerhouses, brands, and emerging and established start-ups. June 19: TechZulu Penthouse at ROC: TechZulu will livestream interviews and provide a place to network. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest. In 2012 over $3.2

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 23, 2016

The Los Angeles Dodgers and R/GA Ventures are pleased to announce the five companies chosen for the second LA Dodgers Sports Accelerator. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office. The companies are: Greenfly transforms the relationships of organizations into powerful networks for content creation and distribution.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2016

Horizons Ventures and Iconiq Capital led the $40 million round, which brings Modern Meadow’s total funding to $53.5 Other investors include ARTIS Ventures, Temasek, Breakout Ventures, RedSwan Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Tony Fadell, an early iPod designer and co-founder of Nest Labs. There’s no cow involved.”.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. We raised $3.5M

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Rad: It is targeted, and an advertiser can find a user based on a variety of parameters, ranging from the category that the publisher is in, and some analysis around their account. A lot of the controversy revolves around the notion that Twitterers are more part of a social network than content creators. Everyone is happy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category. We believe this is why Google Ventures invested in Pixazza.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. 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. What stage? What price?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. 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. What stage? What price?

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. We've averaged 55 percent, quarter over quarter growth sine we launched. We have lots of different categories of stuff, and movies are extremely popular, as are TV shows, particularly the more recent ones.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. From her new perch in Los Angeles, shes helping to launch a company that she says lies "at the intersection of marketing and digital entertainment, philanthropy and lifetime experiences." More venture capitalists also are putting down roots.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

First, we’d like to thank our exhibitors, sponsors, and venue (Dave and Buster’s Westchester) for supporting the all-encompasing day of industry insights and networking. UCLA itself has been prodigious in patent filing, and recently launched their own VC fund. 2050 full utilization of local water.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. the world’s largest celeb endorsement network).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. They usually have strong networks to begin with so suddenly you’re hit up by everybody you know who has a friend. So this becomes your dealflow.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. In total, Demand Media owns 20 media networks in the US alone and is one of the best reasons why Paul Graham believes Hollywood is dead. Categories Deals. billion in shares. KeithBonnici. Nice to see.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True). Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Are you going to do all of this? No Dave S. =

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end.

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