socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2011

According to the two, they will offer classes in architecture, arts management, business, cinematic arts, communications, medicine and politics for the fall 2011 semester, via the New York Times Knowledge Network. The NYTimes has been running its educational efforts since September of 2007.

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Course Education USC UCLA 157

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- startupSD: Mark Suster from Both Sides of the Table. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He focuses on early-stage technology companies.

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GRP Partners UCSD Southern California SoCal 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Peter Coffee's Annual Technology Forecast. He joined the company in January of 2007 after spending 18 years as a technology analyst and columnist at the industry magazines eWEEK and PC Week. One of the best-informed, and entertaining, technologists is Peter Coffee. Don't miss the pre-meeting roundtable.

Technology 100

Technology Entertainment Research Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2011 I started using Instagram. In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page?

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Product Startup AMA 150

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

The investment came from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Isis Pharmaceuticals, which created Regulus in a joint venture in September of 2007. According to Regulus, the new funding will provide it with cash to operate through 2011.

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Patents Capital Funding Invest 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

I’d personally heard of Startup Weekend back when it got started in 2007 out in Boulder but only attended my first Startup Weekend in late 2009. Also we would like to thank our global sponsors: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Ven Corps, Twilio, Vertical Response, oDesk, Elance and OpenTok.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted. I sat on panels.

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Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. I raised my A round at a $31.5

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Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2011

billion in cumulative bookings since their inception in 2007. By the way, they’ve announced $235 million in revenue made in the first quarter of 2011. In 2010, Zynga made $574.6 million from virtual goods/online games and just $22.8 million from advertising. Zynga has generated over $1.5

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Statistics News Invest Advertising 69

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

That was back in 2007, when we started. We came out in 2008, and raised a convertible round from Slater, and did a Series A round from Javelin Ventures at the end of 2011. The company was born out of the inefficiency in the system. What was appealing about what you were doing for your investors?

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Marketing Software Education Startup 231

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This added features might be why Google couldn’t renew their contract with Apple, after five years as Apple used to develop and preload the YouTube App since the debut of the iPhone in 2007 but there could be more. billion, or 90% of consolidated revenues, a 21% increase over second quarter 2011 revenues of $9.03 No Bad Blood.

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Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

first world problems and all] But I did feel like 2012 was particularly tough for me having closed out 2011 losing a close family member and dealing with cancer with both family members and close friends. After all, you’d have to be a really big baby to complain about being a VC. Some responded very well and are in recovery.

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Writing Venture Capital Blogging Startup 313

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later. The company inked a partnership with French firm Servier on a heart failure microRNA drug and a few other cardiovascular programs in 2011.

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Research Conference Company Companies 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. But, most did not file their S-1''s. How about mergers and acquisitions?

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011. I wouldn’t say the have NO firepower but it’s not likely a lot left. GRP’s last fund was in 2000.

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. In 2011 I talked to a friend, Steffen Thilsted , who asked me if we should join a startup-competition called VentureCup together.

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Design Web Design Google Develop 65

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Being the smart and determined businessman that he is, Mike regrouped and really began to study the “Social Gaming” market that had been gaining significant traffic since 2007. After studying the social gaming market, Mike decided to pivot to the social gaming model, and in 2011 PopRox Entertainment was born.

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Study Entertainment Press Marketing 71

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it. So, we worked on the launch of the very first iPhone game and titles, before there was even an app store.

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Our 2011 exits of Accordent Technologies and Del Mar Datatrac (DMD) put us in the top decile of performance for 2007 vintage year, private equity funds. Jeb Spencer: Institutional investors have only one way to judge emerging managers such as us and that is through past performance and the number of exits you have achieved.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business.

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Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006.

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Startup Platform Sites Java 195

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

It’s not publicly known exactly when Google began developing Chrome and Chromium, but it must have been late 2006 or early 2007 since Chrome launched in September 2008. So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). percent of all American advertising in 2011 (Rao, Leena, Techcrunch). The online buyer is not so simple and neither is the changing American consumer.

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Customer Custom Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). percent of all American advertising in 2011 (Rao, Leena, Techcrunch). The online buyer is not so simple and neither is the changing American consumer.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Poizner previously had run as a Republican, serving in the role from 2007 to 2011; he also had thrown his hat into the California Governor's race in 2010. If successful, Poizner would be the first independent declaring "no party preference" to win a statewide office. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California SoCal High Tech Class 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. We did not.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While he is publicly saying that he expects a modestly improved economy in 2011 , it’s hard to be too sanguine when you look at the data. Consumer debt relative to incomes has risen to an all time high reaching 138% of 2007 (obviously that’s not sustainable!)

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. Laura Trice , M.D.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78