L.A.'s LARGEST Web Developers.
L.A.'s LARGEST Web Developers
Employees in Employees
L.A. County Companywide
1 MarchFIRST 140 7,600
2425 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 400 East,
Santa Monica 90404
2 Genex 110 170
10003 Washington Blvd.,
Los Angeles 90232
3 Proxicom 100 1,200
4061 Glencoe Ave.,
Marina del Rey 90292
4 Guidance 100 100
4134 Del Rey Ave.,
Marina del Rey 90292
5 Razorfish 100 1,500
12200 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 400,
Los Angeles 90064
6 Commerce One 75 9,400
3330 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 115,
Santa Monica 90405
7 Rare Medium 75 1,100
4081 Redwood Ave.,
Los Angeles 90066
8 Viant Corp. 70 600
3562 Eastham Drive,
Culver City 90232
9 Zentropy Partners 70 500
6600 Lexington Ave.,
Hollywood 90038
10 Apollo Interactive 50 50
8556 Hayden Place,
Culver City 90232
Major Clients
1 MarchFIRST Amgen, Toyota, 20th Century Fox
2425 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite
400 East,
Santa Monica 90404
2 Genex American Honda, The WB Television
Network,
10003 Washington Blvd., Front Range Solutions, Honeywell
Los Angeles 90232
3 Proxicom Toyota Motor Sales, USA
4061 Glencoe Ave.,
Marina del Rey 90292
4 Guidance Paramount Domestic Television,
4134 Del Rey Ave., Universal Television, Merv
Marina del Rey 90292 Griffin Enterprises
5 Razorfish Schwab, Guardina, Highmark Blue
Cross
12200 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite Blue Shield, Adobe, Nokia
400,
Los Angeles 90064
6 Commerce One Toshiba Copiers & Fax, Creative
Planet,
3330 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite Disney, Quadrem
115,
Santa Monica 90405
7 Rare Medium Nestle, Tivo, Starbright, EPSON
4081 Redwood Ave.,
Los Angeles 90066
8 Viant Corp. Sony, JD Powers, Kinko's
3562 Eastham Drive,
Culver City 90232
9 Zentropy Partners MGM, Nautica, emap, Edison, Reebok
6600 Lexington Ave.,
Hollywood 90038
10 Apollo Interactive The WB Television Network, Joico,
8556 Hayden Place, Playa Vista, Directors Guild of
America
Culver City 90232
Headquarters
1 MarchFIRST Chicago
2425 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 400 East,
Santa Monica 90404
2 Genex Los Angeles
10003 Washington Blvd.,
Los Angeles 90232
3 Proxicom Reston, Va.
4061 Glencoe Ave.,
Marina del Rey 90292
4 Guidance Marina del Rey
4134 Del Rey Ave.,
Marina del Rey 90292
5 Razorfish New York
12200 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 400,
Los Angeles 90064
6 Commerce One Pleasanton, Calif.
3330 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 115,
Santa Monica 90405
7 Rare Medium Dallas
4081 Redwood Ave.,
Los Angeles 90066
8 Viant Corp. Boston
3562 Eastham Drive,
Culver City 90232
9 Zentropy Partners Cambridge, Mass.
6600 Lexington Ave.,
Hollywood 90038
10 Apollo Interactive Culver City
8556 Hayden Place,
Culver City 90232
11 Velocity Networks 50 50
5155 Rosecrans Blvd.,
Los Angeles 90250
12 Rubin Postaer 50 50
201 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Santa Monica 90401
13 Digital Boardwalk 45 45
1207 Fourth St.,
Santa Monica 90401
14 E-Built 33 255
4640 Lankershim Blvd., Suite 400,
North Hollywood 91602
15 Imagistic Media Studios 30 30
1518 Abbot Kinney Blvd.,
Venice 90291
11 Velocity Networks Windsor Fashions, Symbol
5155 Rosecrans Blvd., Technologies, Xerox Federal
Los Angeles 90250 Credit Union
12 Rubin Postaer American Honda Automobiles,
201 Santa Monica Blvd., Honda Motorcycles, Arco
Santa Monica 90401 Products Company
13 Digital Boardwalk Hughes Global Services,
1207 Fourth St., Hewlett Packard, Broadband
Santa Monica 90401 Sports
14 E-Built Bidland, Buzzsaw, ClickTex
4640 Lankershim Blvd., Suite 400,
North Hollywood 91602
15 Imagistic Media Studios Bank of America, California
1518 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Pizza Kitchen, FX Networks,
Venice 90291 Time Warner
11 Velocity Networks Los Angeles
5155 Rosecrans Blvd.,
Los Angeles 90250
12 Rubin Postaer Santa Monica
201 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Santa Monica 90401
13 Digital Boardwalk Santa Monica
1207 Fourth St.,
Santa Monica 90401
14 E-Built Irvine
4640 Lankershim Blvd., Suite 400,
North Hollywood 91602
15 Imagistic Media Studios Venice
1518 Abbot Kinney Blvd.,
Venice 90291
MarchFIRST It's not easy being No. 1 -- especially in the volatile world of Web design and development. MarchFIRST, the L.A. area's largest Web developer, had a less-than-stellar year, but with 140 local employees, it still managed to remain a force in the market. The Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. office of the Chicago-based company developed sites for Amgen, Toyota, 20th Century Fox, Sony and others in 2000. That activity came as the company scaled back nationwide, cutting back its staff by 10 percent. The reductions, announced in November, were expected to result in savings of $100 million annually. Last year's bumpy bump·y adj. bump·i·er, bump·i·est 1. Covered with or full of bumps: a bumpy country road. 2. Marked by bumps and jolts; rough: a bumpy flight. road has not only hit the employment side of the business. The company's stock has plummeted from $38 a share on March 21, 2000 to 28 cents a share on March 21, 2001, a drop of 99.3 percent. As of this writing, the company is facing delisting Delisting When the stock of a company is removed from a stock exchange. Notes: Reasons for delisting include violating regulations and/or failure to meet financial specifications set out by the stock exchange. by Nasdaq. The company reported a net loss of $6.8 billion ($37 per diluted di·lute tr.v. di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing, di·lutes 1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water. 2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture. share) for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, compared to net income of $8.6 million (14 cents a share) in the like year-earlier quarter. Local executives weren't keen on talking about the situation, but a spokesman said the company is in the process of evaluating various financing options, and refused to comment on whether or not it would remain a public entity. The company recently announced a $150 million financing package from Francisco Partners, which has about a 30 percent stake in the company and two seats on the MarchFIRST board. In March, MarchFIRST announced an extension on a $53 million loan it received from American National Bank and Trust of Chicago. The announcement came four days after MarchFIRST announced the resignations of three company executives, including both the chairman/CEO and president/COO. Genex In 1995, Walter Schild, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Los Angeles-based Genex, was working out of the second bedroom on his Manhattan Beach Manhattan Beach, city (1990 pop. 32,063), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1912. It is a residential and beach community with an oil refinery and nearby factories that produce transportation and electrical equipment, computers, and pottery. house. Today, the company he started by using his personal credit card has four offices (Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. , Hollywood, Atlanta and Denver), and boasts an impressive client list that includes Acura, the WB Television Network, Honeywell and CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. . While many of the top Web developers suffered losses and staff cutbacks last year, Genex added 100 people, by far its biggest expansion to date. More impressive may be the company's claim that in six years of operation it has always managed to turn a profit. "Our philosophy was that, instead of spending money on office space and crazy perks perk 1 v. perked, perk·ing, perks v.intr. 1. To stick up or jut out: dogs' ears that perk. 2. To carry oneself in a lively and jaunty manner. , we focused on the business," Schild said. "All of our offices are in industrial buildings. We don't have employees sitting on $700 chairs. We don't take company trips to Hawaii." The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. reported year 2000 revenues of $15 million, up 150 percent from $6 million the prior year. Schild said he's expecting continued growth in 2001. "Many of our revenues come from existing clients -- Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . and Honda, for instance -- which have been clients for years. When you have all new clients, it's not very stable." Proxicom Originally formed in 1991 as a systems integration company, Proxicom made the move to Web development in 1994 when it was asked to build a Web-based commercial venture for MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. . The Reston, Va.-based company has since focused primarily on developing e-business solutions, focusing primarily on Fortune 500 companies, including America Online See AOL. , General Electric Co., General Motors Corp. and Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. . Proxicom has since opened offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Sausalito, Houston and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , where with 100 employees, it is the third largest Web developer. Like most companies in the Internet sector of the economy, Proxicom's stock has been hammered ham·mered adj. 1. Shaped or worked with a metalworker's hammer and often showing the marks of these tools: a bowl of hammered brass. 2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Adj. lately. On March 21, Proxicom stock closed at $2.94 a share, down 93 percent from $42.25 a year earlier. Proxicom reported a net loss of $3.4 million (6 cents per diluted share) for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, compared to net income of $1.9 million (4 cents a share) for the like year-earlier quarter. Fourth-quarter revenues, though, were $57.9 million, almost double the $29.6 million in the fourth quarter of 1999. Despite a battered bat·ter 1 v. bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters v.tr. 1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. 2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse. 3. stock and a bucket of red ink red ink Health administration A popular term for financial losses. Cf in the Black. , company officials are still whistling whistling high-pitched respiratory sound made by forced breathing through a very narrow opening; usually indicative of stenosis of a passage. an upbeat tune. "I think that our choice to work primarily with strong established clients has definitely helped us," said Steve Janowsky, a managing director at Proxicom' s Marina del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
"My experience as a VC is entirely focused on seed and early-stage funding," says Lazarus. "What Gordon has told me is, "Over time, I have become fascinated in what you guys do." Now the question becomes: Does the aging corporate warrior have what it takes to make the transition from a Fortune 500 board room? Dennis Lanfear, a former Amgen vice president who now heads his own biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. investment firm, Lanfear Capital, thinks so. He said that Binder binder: see combine. An earlier Microsoft Office workbook file that let users combine related documents from different Office applications. The documents could be viewed, saved, opened, e-mailed and printed as a group. was able to grow Amgen from a small firm to what it is today by effectively combining his financial background with a deep understanding of the science. "Gordon is absolutely technically proficient pro·fi·cient adj. Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning. n. An expert; an adept. . While not a scientist, he is able to understand the issues really well," said Lanfear. "Gordon always impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: me as the master of the calculated risk." Souza seconds that, saying he reported directly to Binder, who had a good grasp of the science despite a professional financial background. And that is saying something coming from the man who developed Neupogen, an immune system immune system Cells, cell products, organs, and structures of the body involved in the detection and destruction of foreign invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. Immunity is based on the system's ability to launch a defense against such invaders. stimulator that is just one of two drugs that Amgen has ridden on to corporate riches. Binder said it came with the territory. "Some of the biggest decisions we had to make at Amgen were science ones," he said. "This molecule or that. This product or that." Binder's wife of 36 years, Adele, said her husband believes he can learn what it takes to do just about any job, spending inordinate amounts of time reading through business documents and other materials. She remembers when Binder decided to take time out of his busy schedule about 20 years ago to coach one of their son's soccer teams. The problem was that Binder had never played soccer in his life, but that wasn't an obstacle to him. Nor was it something to try on a lark lark, common name for members of the large family Alaudidae, perching birds of terrestrial habits, chiefly of the Old World and best-known through the skylark, Alauda arvensis. . "He went out and bought a book on soccer, and was reading it as he was coaching," his wife said. "He is so determined. He takes everything seriously." |
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