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JANUARY 16, 2009

Visitors to our web site are most likely familiar with our Insights and Opinions section, where we share advice, opinions, insights, and more from our readers. The latest contributions: Docstoc's Jason Nazar gives a primer on The 7 Ways to Get Traffic On The Web.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which supplies ad optimization software to web publishers, announced today that it has released a new version of its VANTAGE Firefox browser plug-in, which helps provide its publishers with revenue and impressoin statistics and other information. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which provides online advertising optimization for web publishers, reports this morning that its latest advertising market survey finds that CPMs are up "significantly" in Q2. Rubicon is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures, and has raised $33M in funding.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Rubicon Project's services are used by web publishers to pick the best ad networks to run on a specific page of their site, based on the return predicted from that ad network. Rubicon is venture backed by News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites. The firm is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

Rubicon develops software which automatically optimizes the ads displayed on web publisher's web sites to increase revenues for those sites.

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MARCH 8, 2010

Rubicon's new product provides automation of mobile advertising, based on eCPM, click through rates, and fill rates, similar to Rubicon's web product. Rubicon is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures, Mayfield, and Peacock Equity Fund. Financial terms of the deal with mOcean were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm backed by Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity, said today that it has enhanced its "Certified Inventory" program with a partnership with AdSafe Media.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites. The firm is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Rubicon said that the new funding round came from News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. As part of the announcement, Rubicon said it will have over $100M in revenues in 2010.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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MARCH 24, 2009

According to the firms, ActionAllStars.com's sports entertainment will be available directly from Candystand.com's web site. ActionAllStars is operated by Six Degree Games, and is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners and Prism Venture Partners. Financial details of the distribution deal were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office.

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MAY 29, 2012

ANGEL INVESTOR JUDGES: Emil Babadjov, Viovoda Labs; Brad Feldman, Pasadena Angels; Mark Landay, Harvard Business Angels; Jeff Lapin, Tech Coast Angels; Brock Pierce, Clearstone Global Gaming Fund; Joe Platnick, Pasadena Angels, Pan Pacific Capital; Scott Sangster, Tech Coast Angels; Mark Schwartz, Harvard Business Angels. See [link] (more)

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JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , which provides web advertising optimization software, has expanded into New York, the firm announced Thursday. Rubicon Project offers helps web publishers optimize their advertising revenue, by monitoring the performance and adjusting which advertising networks get a share of a site's ad inventory.

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MAY 14, 2009

According to LeisureLink, the resort has implemented its booking engine on its web site. LeisureLink provides online travel booking software used by vacation rental and specialty lodging operators, and is venture backed by Mission Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Rubicon, which provides online advertising optimization for web publishers, said that Stevens joins form MySpace, where he was SVP of Audience and also VP of MySpace's European operations. Rubicon is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures. Stevens has also previously served at Silverpop.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Rubicon Project develops technology used to optimize advertising revenues for web publishers. The firm is venture backed by Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners and IDG Ventures. Welch joins from Experian Interactive Media, and prior to that was at LowerMyBills.com before it was acquired by Experian. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 13, 2009

The investment included $5M in equity funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia, and also included $8M in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. Rubicon Project operates a service which helps online publishers optimize which advertising networks to use on their web sites, to improve their CPMs. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Rubicon, which is backed by Clearstone Ventures, Mayfield, and IDG Ventures, publishes its market report every quarter, examining the online advertising industry. Rubicon Project develops automated software and services which optimizes the CPM paid to online advertisers, by choosing the best online advertising to run on publisher web sites.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Many, many thanks to Jim Armstrong of Clearstone who insisted that I needed visit an incubator or two. “I told you so” doesn’t begin to cover it. If you don’t want to be roadkill, go to an incubator/accelerator and take a tour or spend some time with a twenty-something founder. The game has changed.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. -A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. a fbFund winner.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. For those not familiar with BigStage, tell us what the company is doing with your avatar technology?

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments.

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MARCH 26, 2009

The board asked me to jump in, and I did, working with Ted Alexander and Jim Armstrong, of Mission Ventures and Clearstone Ventures, respectively. Eric Hovanec: Web developers, operations folks, and we have openings in sales and account management. That was about three years ago. We're looking across a number of positions.

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MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com).

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Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Last week I hosted a panel of Los Angeles Venture Capitalists with Jim Armstrong (Clearstone Ventures), Mark Suster (GRP), David Travers (Rustic Canyon), and Brian Garrett (Crosscut Ventures). You can see the recap here on the DealMaker Media Blog and here on Nicole Jordan’s new blog KickingSand.com.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Rubicon Project is headed by Frank Addante, and develops ad optimization technology for web publishers, helping them to pick the best ad networks to optimize revenue on their web site.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , which operates an online system for connecting vacation rental properties with travel agents and web booking, has linked with a new automated group hotel booking engine, Groupize.com , the two said this morning. and Canada. Details of the partnership between the two companies was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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