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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Our official date is May 10th, 2010. When: May 10, 2010, 5:00pm – 7:30pm with afterparty to follow. We think it will be a great spot for a meetup and since we had 200+ last time, the 350 seat venue should serve our needs perfectly. Thanks to Alf Lamont, a speaker at the first #140conf LA Meetup, for the diggs.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Momentum Ventures became involved with iChange in 2009 as an advisor, and made an investment at the beginning of 2010 in the company and placed MacFarlane in the CEO role. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MVM said that MacFarlane will be joining Herbalife along with the rest of iChange's team. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2012

Qualcomm was the lead on the February 2010 round for Visage, whose software is used to manage the security and mobile policy for enterprise customers. According to Visage, the round was led by Motorola Solutions, and also included Palisades Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Worldview Technology Partners. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 16, 2021

million Series A in 2010 that was co-led by Accel and Index Ventures. The move comes less than two months after the company filed confidentiality to go public via a direct listing or initial public offering. Squarespace, which has helped millions create their own websites, was founded in 2003 and bootstrapped until a $38.5

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. It’s hard to say.

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MARCH 8, 2011

The information came out in the annual index, which showed that while 2010 had a very high startup rate--the highest in 15 years--those new businesses are not generating jobs.

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JUNE 29, 2011

uSamp said the new office comes after triple digit revenue growth last year, and a doubling of its employees since 2010. The firm said the new office is part of a European expansion for the company. uSamp provides online survey and panel services, allowing market researchers to conduct online panels. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Oct 2010, $50M - 140 employees. Much of that growth has been in the last three years, according to the numbers we've pulled from our coverage. Lynda.com has been one of the best kept secrets in Southern California's startup community, well known in its industry but practically unknown otherwise. 2009, $37M. May 2012, $70M. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The big growth is not the first year of blockbuster growth at the company--the firm said last year that it also doubled its revenues between 2010 and 2011. The firm says it has been profitable for the past three years. EdgeCast has announced only a total of$20M in funding, from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

TCVN has been running its Survivor events for a number of years, with the last event being held in 2010. It looks like the annual TCVN Survivor event is heating up this year, as the group said it will be offering up a new $25,000 cash investment for startups looking to pitch their company in front of an audience.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity had acquired Internet Brands back in 2010, paying $640M for the company. Internet Brands said that CEO Bob Brisco and the company''s existing management team will continue to hold a minority stake in the company, and continue to run the business.

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MARCH 5, 2012

Durkin takes over for interim CFO Thomas Tippl, who has held the position--in addition to Chief Operating Officer--since 2010. Durkin was most recently Corporate Vice President, Chief Operating and Financial Officer of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, which is in charge of Microsoft's Xbox game controller. Brown and Company.

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JUNE 13, 2011

If you don't believe me, take a look at some interesting data on what programming languages TIOBE Programming Community Index for June 2011 are in use and the current trends.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Compared with 2010, the report found an increase of 296 percent over exits in 2010, when $2.6 The exit was the eighth highest in the database, according to Ocean Road Partners. Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. billion in liquidity was generated in the sector.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The highest ranking firms on the overall Technology Fast 500 from the area were Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a developer of software e-commerce tools headed by Dan Engel , which was ranked at number 13 nationally with 17,468% revenue growth from 2006 to 2010.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Bricault has been an advisor to SnappyTV since 2010. Bricault was one of a number of angel investors and advisors at SnappyTV, including Josh Felser, Chris Redlitz, Dan Halabe, Brian Woods, Russ Fradin, David Pidwell, Leslie Gittess, Andy Boszhardt, Ben Lin, Don Ryan, Don Folgner and Tricia Iboshi. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Percival shut Lalawag--run with wife Laurie Pervical--in 2010, in part because of the birth of Percival's baby and his work serving as VP of Online Marketing for MySpace under Jones. Wittlebee offers up subscription packages that delivers basics like onesies, t-shirts, socks, leggings and other products to parents, starting at $39.99

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JULY 15, 2014

Apple''s iOS 4 was introduced in 2010; iOS 5 was launched in 2011. According to Sonos, the move comes as it looks to "balance our need to innovate with our desire to maintain support for older devices". Sonos said it now will only support iOS devices running iOS6 or higher. Sonos is based in Santa Barbara. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The company last announced a round--a Series C funding--back in September of 2010. RightScale is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Tenaya Capital. The firm has now raise $58.10M in funding. The regulatory filing indicates that eight investors participated in the newest round. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

The group--which last ran a program in early 2010--has recently opened up an application page for its 2011 Winter Term, and has been sending out invites for a launch event in early November. According to the group's web site, it will kick off the next class in November 2011, and continue until early spring 2012.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Triton Digital said it has been representing Slacker's audio inventory and programming since 2010. Los Angeles-based audio advertising technology provider Triton Digital says it has begun representing XAPPmedia , and will offer up that firm's premium interactive audio ads on Slacker Radio. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Zimbra is an email and collaboration software product which acquired by VMware in 2010. AnyMeeting said its new AnyMeeting Zimlet product allows Zimbra users to schedule, launch, and manage AnyMeeting online meetings from within Zimbra. AnyMeeting is venture backed by the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Webfest (formerly known as DomainFest) has managed some fairly high level speakers at its events over the years, including Tony Hsieh of Zappos in 2010; Apple Founder Steve Wozniak in 2009; Bob Parsons of GoDaddy in 2011; and Biz Stone of Twitter in 2012.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

According to SDGE, those vehicles were all sold or leased in its territory--covering San Diego and southern Orange County--since December of 2010. San Diego now has more than 10,000 electric vehicles on the road, according to San Diego Gas & Electric.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

OpenX has been in Japan since 2010. Los Angeles-based online advertising technology firm OpenX has opened up a new office in Tokyo, as the firm continues it international expansion. The firm said that it has named Nick Kovac as General Manager, OpenX Japan, to oversee business operations in the country.

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JULY 19, 2012

Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

SolarCity is not Musk's first successful IPO: he also founded Tesla Motors (IPO in June of 2010), and sold PayPal way back in 2002 for $1.5 SolarCity debuted at $8.00 per share and was trading as high as $11.00 in morning trading Thursday.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Popover was founded in October of 2010; Playsino is headed by Brock Pierce. Popover Games develops social casino games such as Popover Poker. Foghorn Games is a developer of Popover's social casino game Bingo Around the World.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

billion in 2010. Newegg is a major, privately held electronics retailer, which has quietly become one of the largest online retailers on the Internet. The firm had sales of over $2.3 READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Greenplum was acquired by EMC in 2010. Alpine Data Labs'' was founded by the founders of Greenplum (Metapa), which had been backed by Mission Ventures and originally been based in Sherman Oaks. READ MORE>>. mission ventures alpine data hadoop bigdata venture capital metapa greenplum'

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Docstoc has been offering up the subscription, premium documents service since November of 2010, in addition to offering up those individual documents a la carte to users browsing its site.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

The company only started its recycling kiosks in 2010, and was previously a winner of the San Diego Venture Group''s Pitchfest. The number of phones and devices recycled by the company via its interactive kiosks has seen quite an uptick, as the company only just announced it had reached the one million devices recycled mark in April of 2013.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Harris was most recently the founder and CEO of NOZA, which he sold to Blackbaud in 2010. The firm said its data is used to create a copmrehensive database of business relationships, which can be used by clients for lead generation and scoring, marketing automation, and market share analysis. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 16, 2014

Peregrine has been at the company since 2010, and previously served at Sequoia Communications, RFMD, GEC Plessey Semiconductor, and Marconi. San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor said Wednesday that it has named Duncan Pilgrim as its new Vice President of Marketing. READ MORE>>. peregrine semiconductor executive marketing communications'

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Adam Bierman will step down in February from the cannabis company he helped establish in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The firm has a long history; it was originally spawned out of Idealab back in 2001, focusing on developing pure robotics technology and not retail products; it decided to hit the retail market in 2010 with the Mint floor cleaning robot, after variously applying its technology to toys, shopping cart scanners, cell phones, and the military.

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APRIL 2, 2010

Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. – That’s a tough question that as of 2010 is a hard to know for certain. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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