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APRIL 20, 2010

Irving, who had been a professor at Pepperdine since January of 2009, was teaching classes at Pepperdine's full time MBA program in Malibu. Irving had previously served as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, heading up its Windows Live Platform group, as well as serving at Xerox, Oki Electric Industry Co.

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MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. 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.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. OTHER DEALS. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

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APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The DataPop team is building a platform that enables real time creation and delivery of highly engaging ads to consumers on a massive scale. We’re excited to work with them.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The San Diego arm of the Founder Institute , the entrepreneurship mentoring effort started by Adeo Ressi, said Friday that it has graduated 12 companies from its Fall 2009 San Diego semester.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization service firm headed by Frank Addante, is claiming this morning that the firm saw 270%, year over year growth in 2009. According to the firm, it served up more than 350 billion ads through its platform this year.

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Clearstone Advertising Equity Los Angeles 160

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Morphlabs said that BroadBand Tower has been using its platform since late 2009. According to Morphlabs, the investment came from BroadBand Tower, a provider of Internet services, hosting, and other services in Japan. Morphlabs is headed by serial entrepreneur Winston Damarillo.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , developer of the computer game development software Gamebryo LightSpeed, reported today that it had a 35 percent increase in revenues year-over-year, and a 58 percent increase in its profitability during 2009. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

is planning on using Ring Revenue's platform in 2010 to improve the performance of its email, display, and offline campaigns. LeadClick has been piloting Ring Revenue's products since mid-2009. The firm said that LeadClick Media, which is a subsidiary of First American Corp., Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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Media GRP Partners Santa Barbara Email 159

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JULY 26, 2022

What do you do with a $650 million platform? If I look back to the beginning of the current tech boom which started around 2009, we often wrote a $3–5 million check and this was called an “A round” and 12 years later in an over-capitalized market this became known as a “Seed Round” but in truth what we do hasn’t changed much at all.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Sam Altman: We launched in November of 2009. We launched in November of 2009, an dit's been an amazing experience to date. It was from a group of angel investors, and the funding is really to both support the continued build out of our content platform, but also to really expand our digital platform.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Why are they doing it on textPlus? People like free.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

According to WebVisible, the funding will go to aggressively expand R&D on its platform, which is used by place local online advertising for small and medium sized businesses. As part of the announcement, WebVisible said it saw a 113 percent, year-over-year increase in its revenues for 2009. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2013

But if you want to be able to repeat your success on your next campaign you need to know more about how you drove those clicks: Which social platform were they published on? Of course it’s valuable to know how many clicks you drive. If you sent multiple Tweets you’d want to know which time of day was more effective. And so forth.

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

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MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial. Read more: peHUB.

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JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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MAY 11, 2010

According to LeisureLink, the lodge has been using the firm's distribution platform since the fall of 2009. Pasadena-based LeisureLink said Monday that it has added Springdale, Utah-based Majestic View Lodge , a vacation lodging firm near Zion National Park, as a client. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. So with the metoric rise of Twitter now forecast at 45 million as of August 3rd, 2009 (and rising fast), has Twitter Killed the Blogger Star? Suddenly it was about very frequent commentary in a bite-sized format. Now we could all sleep more. Or could we?

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MAY 1, 2009

Thursday, May 7, 2009 -- Digital Hollywood Spring. Digital Hollywood represents the total Transformation of the Industry: The TV Platform; Smartphone Platform, Broadband Platform, Games Platform; A Reinvention of the Entertainment, Advertising and Technology Industries. See [link] (more).

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APRIL 30, 2009

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 -- Digital Hollywood Spring. Digital Hollywood represents the total Transformation of the Industry: The TV Platform; Smartphone Platform, Broadband Platform, Games Platform; A Reinvention of the Entertainment, Advertising and Technology Industries. See [link] (more).

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APRIL 29, 2009

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 -- Digital Hollywood Spring. Digital Hollywood represents the total Transformation of the Industry: The TV Platform; Smartphone Platform, Broadband Platform, Games Platform; A Reinvention of the Entertainment, Advertising and Technology Industries. See [link] (more).

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APRIL 28, 2009

Monday, May 4, 2009 -- Digital Hollywood Spring. Digital Hollywood represents the total Transformation of the Industry: The TV Platform; Smartphone Platform, Broadband Platform, Games Platform; A Reinvention of the Entertainment, Advertising and Technology Industries. See [link] (more).

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Digital Hollywood Hollywood Platform Entertainment 100

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based Aqua Connect , a developer of terminal servers and remote desktop services software for the Mac OS X platform, said Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Code Rebel, LLC , alleging misappropriation of its trade secrets.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. And of course we have dozens of other data sources making us a much broader platform than Twitter data.

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

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JUNE 21, 2016

Verizon said the buy would bring a "world-class" software platform and new distribution relationships to its telematics efforts. The company appears to have raised around $160M in funding since it first was found in 2009. become part of Verizon Telematics. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to Rubicon, Allen & Company will work with the company to "exploring options for ongoing business growth initiatives" including strategic acquisitions, platform expanson, and continued international growth.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. in 2009 the market was completely constipated as investors focused on triage.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 -- 140 Characters Conference! At the #140conf events, we look at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 -- 140 Characters Conference! At the #140conf events, we look at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 -- Cloud Computing : Impact on Business and Architecture. At Microsoft, cloud computing is a major component of a technology strategy and platform, and a rich and massively scalable cloud platform called the Azure Services Platform was just unveiled at PDC by Ray Ozzie (Ray?s s keynote).

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APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. What is Burstly?

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009 -- Android Apps: Tips and Tricks. What are the elements to building a successful app on the Android platform? The talk will describe multiple paths to both building an Android app and describe pros and cons of each approach. See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 4, 2013

We hope to be on every single platform, over time. I took a little bit of time off, then started working on Frequency in the middle of 2009. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012.

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