He’s been at it since 2005.  We I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37.  I Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice ” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.” 8221;

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He graduated from Rhodes College and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (MBA). Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005.  Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capita On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.  After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. 

Irvine-based WebVisible announced today that it has acquired Pasadena-based Adapt Technologies, a developer of search engine marketing tools. Adapt Technologies was venture backed by Concept2company, Emergence Capital Partners, and Mohr, Davidow Ventures; the firm had raised $9.8M in 2005. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. WebVisible is a provider of local online advertising services, which helps small and midsize businesses place search engine marketing.

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months.   The style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005.  Players such as Foursquare , Tapulous and Bump Technologies are attracting huge investor attention not to mention the huge hype around augmented reality applications such as Layar .  We’re 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.  There

Pasadena-based Materia , the advanced chemical technology firm spun out of Caltech, said Tuesday that it has licensed its metathesis technology to specialty chemical firm BASF. According to Materia, BASF will use the technology in research and development of certain specialty chemicals. Materia's olefin metathesis catalyst technology has a very wide range of uses in the chemistry industry, Financial terms of the license were not disclosed. Grubbs was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for the technology in 2005.

“California is the birthplace of the information technology revolution and the home of the companies that are creating the future course of our information rich society. Not true so much anymore, but from a standpoint of innovation in the technology sector, California continues to flourish. Our state fosters a climate for progressive, innovative businesses that create jobs, stimulate our state's economy and lead the way for a better, cleaner and healthier world. Great California companies like Google, Hewlett Packard, Apple, Sun Microsystems and hundreds more like them are transforming the way people live, work and communicate.

This technology is still in its early days, but I asked Dennis to talk about how the idea evolved and why it's finally starting to catch on. Previously, Dennis founded dodgeball.com (with  Alex Rainert ), one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in 2005. If you like this interview, you can submit it to my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , reported Thursday that the firm has gained a new patent covering its compression technology. 7,502,514, "System and Method for Lossless Compression of Already Compressed Files" for technology used to compression JPEG files. The technology is used as part of the firm's StuffIt compression utility line. According to Smith Micro, it received U.S. Patent No.