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54 Articles match "2006","Technology"
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.
Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv For years they've taken complex technology and simplified it for the everyday website owner. The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! We We have a jammed packed schedule while we are out there and you will be able to follow along with this special SXSW calender below.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. IPO successes (as measured by the market capitalization at the close of the first day of trading) include Entropic ($500M IPO in 2007), Divx ($625M IPO in 2006), eToys ($7.8BM IPO in 1999) and Xylan ($2.3B A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Its success in New York quickly led to French Tuesdays being established in Miami in 2004, Los Angeles in 2006, San Francisco in 2007 and Paris in 2009. Frequency/Location: "1st Thurs West Side, 2nd Wed Pasadena, 2nd Thurs South Bay, 3rd Thurs WeHo/Silverlake, 4th Wed Downtown, 4th Thurs Valley" / Varies - check the website Cost: Free (no host bar) Review: None Added 3/7/2010 by Todd Zebert Name: The Association of Information Technology Professionals (LA)(AITP-LA) Sites: aitp-la.org Self-description: "As the industry has evolved, so has the association. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice .
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. We Tags: Start-up Advice startup technolog This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”
Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Worth
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. Many 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;
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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. The Original Post (after the jump):
Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006)
Can Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capita 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. My blog was wiped out.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Newport Beach-based Jazz Technologies and Tower Semiconductor said Friday that the two companies have completed their merger. Amelio was formerly the CEO of Apple, and had headed up Acquicor prior to Jazz; Acquicor went IPO as a blank check acquisition firm in 2006 with ex Apple-CTO Ellen Hancock, and Apple founder Steve Wozniak. Acquicor acquired Jazz Semiconductor in 2006 for $260 According to the firms, Jazz Semiconductor has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Tower Semiconductor, named Jazz Semiconductor Inc. a
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of IP communications software for the embedded market, said this morning that it has promoted two of its executives and created two new business units. Makisima has been at D2 since 2006, serving as VP of Marketing and Sales, and also has been at Intoto, Hifn, ParkerVision, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, AMD, Auspex and Adaptec. The firm said it has promoted Doug Makishima to Chief Operating Officer of the firm heading up a new Mobile and Personal Communications Business, and promoted Paul Wu to Vice President of a new Fixed Access Business Unit.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , founded by former dMarc founders Ryan and Chad Steelberg , said Monday that it has acquired La Jolla-based Beeyla , a developer of virtual sports collectibles. Brand Affinity Technologies said the buy will extend its portfolio of endorsement offerings. Ryan and Chad Steelberg sold their last firm, radio adverting technology firm Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. billion in contingent payments.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
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 note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! As Players such as Foursquare , Tapulous and Bump Technologies are attracting huge investor attention not to mention the huge 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
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Monday, September 22, 2008
featured in technology and news publications:
Are Then the more exotic technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Hypertable, etc start to make a difference. Later on, I agree that some of the more exotic technologies can work - but you want to make sure you're not prematurely optimizing.
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Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen
Analysis on viral marketing, user experience,
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Friday, July 10, 2009
San Diego-based Scoperta , which is developing fabless specialty steel technology utilizing scrap materials, has raised $1.4M round back in 2006 in the firm.
...Tags: Tags: capital venture technology steel scopert out of a $1.875M round, according to a regulatory filing. Other details on the funding have not been released, however, the firm is backed by Enterprise Partners and Vista Ventures, and Drew Senyei of Enterprise sits on the firm's board of directors.
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