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1705 Articles match "2009","Companies"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA .” First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. I We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
According to Image Metrics, it has entered into an exchange offer with International Cellular Industries, an OTC BB firm traded as ICLA, to become a pubicly traded company. Source of the new financing for the company was not disclosed. for fiscal 2009. Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a developer of facial animation software and services, has raised $8.0M in funding and gone public through a reverse merger.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
This morning, we published the results of an extensive study of the impact of venture capital companies on Southern California in terms of exit values, finding that exits from VC-backed firms between 1995 and 2009 generated an astounding $48 billion (billion with a capital B) in value.
Small wonder then, that there are so many states/counties/cities eager to attract high tech companies. The study, which was conducted by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners (also of Allegis Capital), used data from our own venture capital database, additional data from Dow Jones/VentureSource, as well as private data collected by Redpoint Venturs’ Greg Martin.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
My hands were trembling as I was faxing eighty pages of the agreement over to the lawyers in New York City," Jason Cohen said about what it was like to finalize the sale of the company he founded, Smart Bear. You can also discuss this post on HN. --Andrew
"My Andrew
"My Even though he was nervous about the [...]
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?
His first big leap into entrepreneurship was launching Optiwave, a fiber optic consulting company. The simple answer is he learned to sell. This program will show you how he did that and what YOU can learn from his experience.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Bob is a Director and long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, has been investing in early stage companies for 5 years, and has been held numerous “C” level positions at private and publicly traded companies. To set the stage, as an early stage investor, I look to invest in a “perfect storm” company. So for an example lets assume a $500k investment in a company with Following on the heals of last week’s post from Andrea Belz, we have another guest blogger, Bob Aholt. Bob also teaches graduate level finance courses at Antioch University.
By Bob Aholt
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
know that, if you absorb the lessons from his experience, you'll avoid making similar mistakes as you build your company.
The company underestimated how hard it is to get customers
You can never lose sight of, "Okay, what's our company supposed to be in the first place?" Somehow, as Luke Burgis raced to build his business, he ended up selling fitness bars, cereal, pet supplements and "sexual enhancement" products. At the same time, he found himself running an online message board and a YouTube-like video site.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
While the economy in 2009 looks challenging for most companies, the outlook of marketing executives is rather bright and upbeat.
Deborah Kania and her team at Brightworks Interactive have just released results of their survey of marketing executives' plans for 2009. The survey covered both B-to-B and B-to-C companies, as well as a mix of large, medium, and small businesses, so the survey results represent a good cross-section Here are nine marketing trends you can expect during 2009:
Marketing Trend #1: Increased use of digital media and a decrease in
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. If I’m being asked to do startup software development, I’m going to push fairly hard on key questions that the startup needs to have answered before they develop anything.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light.
So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or
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Friday, May 15, 2009
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. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy.
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