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39 Articles match "MySpace","Southern California"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias.
But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. We LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). If Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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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.
MySpace, Shopzilla, Rent.com, Lowermybills, etc.) 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, March 10, 2010
One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. We're brought experts from the field--Colleen Sabatino is our Chief Content Officer, and is one of the more respected career center executives in America, and Travlin McCormick came from Slingshot Labs to be our CTO, and is used to speed and has taken various types of businesses and fed them to MySpace--but I've never considered the industry an issue. Those are entrepreneurs Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, and managing director at Tickets.com.
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Southern California is a hotbed of technology companies that are leaders in their sector. This includes MySpace, CitySearch, Ticketmaster, eHarmony, and thousands of lesser known technology companies.
It's been difficult to keep up on all aspects of the technology sector in Southern California. A high-tech community like this also has many bloggers and Web-based news outlets that cover our companies, venture capital, and events -- plus a number of advisers who help technologies entrepreneurial companies grow.
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Wednesday, 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 in the Musical Instrument Business Keywords Layoffs Fund Venture Capital Events Technology Angel Mahalo Zag MySpace Geni
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
MySpace, Stanford vs. Southern California Companies. However, Southern California is catching up to its big brother and now accounts for two-thirds of the state's GDP, making it the 15th largest economy in the world? Tags: Investing SoCa IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs. Tech
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
MySpace, Stanford vs. Southern California Companies. However, Southern California is catching up to its big brother and now accounts for two-thirds of the state's GDP, making it the 15th largest economy in the world? IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs. Tech Coast Angels, Facebook vs.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Southern California is the home for thousands of technology companies such as MySpace in Los Angeles, Linksys in Orange County, and Qualcomm in San Diego.
It's been difficult to keep up on the technology events in Southern California. Several Web sites have calendars of events in SoCal communities. And what do you find in a high-tech community -- in addition to technology? Events.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Southern California is the home for thousands of technology companies such as MySpace in Los Angeles, Linksys in Orange County, and Qualcomm in San Diego.
It's been difficult to keep up on the technology events in Southern California. Several Web sites have calendars of events in SoCal communities. And what do you find in a high-tech community -- in addition to technology? Events.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Top officers of some of the leading social media websites and tools (including Facebook, MySpace and Yammer) will be on the Panel, and there will be panelists from the worlds of media sharing platforms (Pringo), online advertising (Stun Media) and law (Greenberg Glusker), the latter to highlight risks relating to such issues as corporate blogging and privacy. Speakers: * Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace * Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook * Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW, YouTube * Majid Abai, CEO
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Southern California is a hotbed of technology companies that are leaders in their sector. This includes MySpace, CitySearch, Ticketmaster, eHarmony, and thousands of lesser known technology companies.
It's been difficult to keep up on all aspects of the technology sector in Southern California. A high-tech community like this also has many bloggers and Web-based news outlets that cover our companies, venture capital, and events -- plus a number of advisers who help technologies entrepreneurial companies grow.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Southern California is a hotbed of technology companies that are leaders in their sector. This includes MySpace, CitySearch, Ticketmaster, eHarmony, and thousands of lesser known technology companies.
It's been difficult to keep up on all aspects of the technology sector in Southern California. A high-tech community like this also has many bloggers and Web-based news outlets that cover our companies, venture capital, and events -- plus a number of advisers who help technologies entrepreneurial companies grow.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Southern California's venture capital industry isn't just content and media, but is gaining a reputation for companies who "actually know how to make money,"--or so says Highland Capital's Richard de Silva. Speaking on a panel on Venture Capital in Hollywood at AlwaysOn's OnHollywood conference yesterday, de Silva said he's now seeing repeat entrepeneurs coming out of Southern California who are just as good, if not savvier about real businesses, as Silicon Valley. de Silva, who is a General Partner at Highland based out of its Menlo Park offices, pointed specifically to companies like LowerMyBills, eHarmony, and MySpace.
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