Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Those who didn’t get a ticket in time, turned to Zaarly where tickets sold on the SUW “grey-market” for up to $450 per ticket (this being up for discussion with potential upcoming policy changes).

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

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. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. 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.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree. So where are we now?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For privately held biotechs, IPOs are the most common road to the public markets, but they’re not the only way. But they’re also much quicker and less costly to execute than IPOs, and are an alternative to traditional public offerings during a year in which the IPO market has been much more discerning of biotechs than in the recent past.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. Talk about your other titles?

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Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

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 12, 2012

Model Home, LLC, a model purchase/lease back company that worked with some of the biggest names in the home building industry, and was riding the high of housing market boom until the 2006 real estate market crash. Shortly following, PopRox was able to raise a significant chunk of money.

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Study Entertainment Press Marketing 71

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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. 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.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

These companies have built a leadership position in the market they serve, and they meet a mission critical need of their customer base. 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.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

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

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cody Simms: Ultimately, our mission is to be the best, global ecosystem for bringing new technology to market. 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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011. How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists.

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Startup Platform Sites Java 195

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). This being said, I feel the luxury market is an especially warm inviting stomping grounds for this type of online customizable consumerism.

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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). This being said, I feel the luxury market is an especially warm inviting stomping grounds for this type of online customizable consumerism.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. The market had tanked. It was many events that led to the crash but perhaps this was the pin that pricked the market.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I think this fortress company knows open will win over time and I think their instincts (or the market) will lead them in the right direction. I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web.

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Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role.

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