Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. -A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Competitors: Gowalla.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2011

Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. in its new round of funding, which was led by Emergence Capital Partners. Other investors, aside form Anthem and DFJ Frontier, were RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and Square 1 Bank.

Anthem 154

Anthem Draper Yahoo Venture Capital 154

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. I hope that when you’re presenting to a VC this will give you some sense of what might be going on in our minds. He had spent many years at Yahoo!

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?) and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram.

San Diego 55

San Diego Social Media Social Network Yahoo 55

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The firm said its new offering, ReachDisplay, will help local advertisers place online visual display ads on multiple web sites. ReachLocal helps local businesses--who otherwise would not have the knowledge or time--to place ads on online ad programs such as Google's AdWords and Yahoo. The firm is backed by $67.9M READ MORE>>.

ReachLocal 100

ReachLocal Advertising Woodland Hills Yahoo 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Deal evaluations the Foundry way, which continues into a great discussion about VC decision-making processes. “So was starting. Distribution.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

socalTECH

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. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Incidentally, VC’s hate when they hear companies pitching who say, “ I don’t have real competitors &# as I outlined point three in the linked post). It’s what kills most sales cycles including raising venture capital. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different.

Sales 319

Sales Startup Platform Tips 319

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. David founded Geocities back in 1994, took it public in 1998, and in 1999 Yahoo bought the firm as a public company. He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world? Adam Lieber: If you follow my career path, you'll see I saw all sides of the table.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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. event I did last fall.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. And the obvious category, especially for a VC based out of LA, is video. .&# The theory is simple: our attention is moving from search to stream. Early evidence is good. I’ll save it for a future post.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm. Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. ycombinator.com. . Rick Heitzmann.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games Statistics Yahoo 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc.,

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. We spoke with Ross about the investment, as well as about his experience as VC and his outlook on the market. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0,

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. He blogs here and tweets here. 1B+ Revenue.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. It was an Internet search engine and directory "dot-com" (competitor to Yahoo!, we didnt even know Yahoo!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. We saw that the company was starting to have some potential to take venture capital, and got a little more involved, recognizing the need to step up management. Eric Hovanec: Web developers, operations folks, and we have openings in sales and account management.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We were going through the traditional route of seeking venture capitalists both here in Southern California and flying to Sand Hill road. We were at the tail end of it, and not until the 11th hour with one venture capital firm, when Shai just showed up. We asked Shai -- how did he hear about us?

Study 113

Study Education Startup Sites 113

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

I have been involved with a number of companies that had raised a large amount of money, and one of the things I really wanted to do, was do something that didn't require a large amount of venture capital--something that we could do with a small, lean team. So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up.

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. And Facebook.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Zondigo, Inc.

Company 40

Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Venture capital. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Star Trek Contest.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He is principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media agency in Silicon Valley, and has led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0 He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Alex Quilici. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm. ycombinator.com. . Rick Heitzmann.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And what happened in L.A. Okay, thats AdSense.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

You just have to deal with some insufferable VCs and journalists for a while. It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? And AOL stopped Yahoo! Skype is an amazing web company.

Google 325

Google Press Marketing Content 325

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system? They know everything about startups and know every VC contact in the world. You even got Yahoo!

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He is currently CEO of ThisWeekIn.com , a web television network he co-founded with Jason Calacanis and comedian/actor Kevin Pollak. Mark Gantt is the Executive Producer, and Star of Sony Pictures Television’s web series, The Bannen Way , created by Jesse Warren & Mark Gantt. Mark Jeffrey – Co-Founder of ThisWeekIn. Michal Braun.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78