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MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are? We give it to our own kids.

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MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software? What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

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AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Jan Zands is the founders of Los Angeles-based phonesheet.com (www.phonesheet.com), a startup which is developing web-based software for tracking phone messages and action items. Jan Zands: It's a web based phone message manager. So what Phonesheet.com does is takes that antiquated system and modernizes it, using a Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 Web Entertainment Hollywood 147

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. Talk about local, and where you're seeing the most usage of your APIs/datasets?

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

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JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008. So what's next?

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Journal USC News Startup 187

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

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JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? What we wanted to do is allow people to be productive when they wanted to be productive.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

I believe that when you marry the web and technology out of the game industry, you can empower people to really exploit the potential that virtual worlds have to bring people together and socialize. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has. That's what we're about.

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JUNE 30, 2011

That would also give them one, unified platform for Facebook on the web, mobile tablet platforms, and so on, so that every time they release a new version of their platform it will work on every mobile phone, whether that was Android, Windows, or Blackberry. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

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Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. We primarily use the telephone security method.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

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APRIL 30, 2010

Let's start with the products. Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. What does Confident Technologies do?

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Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We spent time going out there and really talking to customers, doing primary research, and have our customers actually help us build our products.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Jeff's father is an entrepreneur, and I wanted to go down the entrepreneurial path, so we had this early concept for a cash back and coupon web site. We think we've really gotten the product validated by the market, particularly with Cyber Monday. Noah Auerhahn: The funding is going to enhance the product.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. What's also important, is that people are using the product. Our products include open source, as well as software-as-a-service, hosted products. At that point, we only had a single, open source product, and were pre-revenue. That helps us in many cases.

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful.

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MAY 11, 2010

We help them identify products that are safe and health for them and their families, from organic baby food, to household items. We do deep research on every single product we advocate for, using the criteria and condition that they create a healthy child and a healthy world. They had a store, but weren't selling much.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The traditional way to handle that is to write code. Though straight through processing is a trading problem, it can also be adapted to an ERP system, or order entry, or virtually any interaction with an application or web site. However, as you can se eour our website, our motto is no code, no limits. The technology has just exploded.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web. What I found out very quickly, is there is a tremendous demand among the independent production community for this information. We've found there is a big community of people who need access to our data.

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Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. That's what we were trying to build into our product at H&R Block, and that's what I envisioned when I started my own company in 2003.

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. I think there is a race for these guys to put money to work, but as a single person that's a hard model to scale.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Joey Flores: For starters, we're smart enough not to believe anything until it is in writing. We're very focused on just on iOS and Android, and not on the web side or administration. That's because we never had the resources to do this before, and we're going to bring our product up to par with other apps in the space.

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Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

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JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

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JUNE 6, 2011

Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. Bruce, what's your background?

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JUNE 23, 2011

We stopped doing consumer facing content a year ago, and handed over writing of the Impact Section on Huffington Post to the team at AOL. The first one we launched was with Corporate Responsibility Magazine, where the top 100 corporate citizens will be on their web site. However, you'll never see that in the media.

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MAY 25, 2016

Enterprises are under a lot of pressure to produce great product under fast cycles. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. You'll see we have several enterprise software companies already in the March portfolio. With this fund, we do not have a cap limit on late stage investments.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing?

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Plus, we will provide resume writing services. The good news, is a product like ResumeBucket actually grows in this economy.

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JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. How did you decide to launch HitFix?

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173