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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Marc Mitchell: I grew up here in Los Angeles, and I have always been involved in media and entertainment, After Los Angeles, I went to Stanford during the first tech boom. We did that through email, and eventually mobile. One of those that is live now is with Toys R Us, for example. I was COO of UrbanDaddy.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. Finally, what's the next big thing for you?

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JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. It was founded by Paul Sidlo, who is from Los Angeles, and it''s very much a Southern California company. For example, gluten free items.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. It's nice chatting with you again about your company--you're here in Los Angeles, aren't you? Can you give a concrete example of how that might work? You mentioned the big players in this market.

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JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). The results?

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MARCH 15, 2016

Designers go on to our platform, post a production projet, and contratosr and factories bid on those projects. Based on ratings, reviews, and price, designers are able to hire a factory or contractor from our platform. Our platform also provides project tracking and customer relationship management. On the factory side, U.S.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based BloomNation (www.bloomnation.com) is looking to change the model, and instead empower local florists to deliver their own, unique designs. It''s more about connecting then with customer, than BloomNation sending orders through the platform. I have such respect for other platforms and technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Where is it Based? Silicon Beach (Santa Monica).

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JUNE 19, 2013

You get an email, tap on a link, a notification pops up, and the app installs on your phone. For example, if you''re just a major crash on an iPad in Japan. In that example, we can let you know you''re seeing iPad mini crashes in Japan, and start tracking those. We''re now both Android and iOS. It just made sense.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

They were talking on their phone, checking Facebook or their email. Mobile was just obviously the best platform that, because the smart phone has essentially become a ubiquitous device. We notice you've initially targeted Los Angeles and San Francisco. I remember one day, looking up, and everyone was on their phone.

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JULY 12, 2013

IN the past, that would have meant sending emails, giving a call to IT, articulating what you need, and eventually your ticket might get closed down in a week or a month. We notice there are quite a few open source companies, like yourself, here in Southern California, and in the Los Angeles area. A good example of that is Ceph.

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MARCH 3, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup Momstamp (www.momstamp.com) is hoping to change that with its service, which connects mothers with friends, friends-of-friends, and beyond, to personal referrals and recommendations. For example, you might have a child with celiac disease or severe food allergies. They got the concept.

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MARCH 5, 2012

To address that worry, Los Angeles-based DogVacay (www.dogvacay.com) lauched last week -- just in time for SXSW -- to help connect dog owners with individual dog lovers to help watch their dogs at their homes. We're launching March 1st in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We believe we've come up with a solution.

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MARCH 5, 2012

To address that worry, Los Angeles-based DogVacay (www.dogvacay.com) lauched last week -- just in time for SXSW -- to help connect dog owners with individual dog lovers to help watch their dogs at their homes. We're launching March 1st in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We believe we've come up with a solution.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

At Amplify I can truly say they take the value-add approach to another level by leading by example, demonstrating what hard work and dedication truly mean while exposing their founders to influential experts and industry change makers. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . While Los Angeles city officials way back in 2003 asked its manufacturers and suppliers to stop using the terminology, they did not require it. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com .

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MARCH 20, 2009

On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system. For example, in Scour, you can do a search for shoes, and read comments about a specific shoe or shoe website, plus you can potentially engage users that left the comment. We've given thousands of dollars away already.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. For example, I could send you $25 towards a Wii Nunchuck, with a cute picture labeled from me, and an actual $25.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

At Amplify I can truly say they take the value-add approach to another level by leading by example, demonstrating what hard work and dedication truly mean while exposing their founders to influential experts and industry change makers. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based Bridg (www.bridg.com), led by CEO and founder Amit Jain , has created a solution which it's been offering to those offline retailers for several years now. Amit Jain: Bridg is a customer data platform and marketing technology for offline retailers. Brig is a customer data platform for offline retailers.

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JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Zumbox was essentially the USPS online, where we had networked street addresses so that email cloud flow online the same way as it did offline. It just snowballed from there.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. how do you compete?

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MARCH 29, 2012

For a number of high profile brands, it's by using the software and services of Los Angeles-based PromoJam (www.promojam.com), which just announced a round of funding to accelerate it efforts last week from Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based StarGreetz (www.stargreetz.com) debuted its celebrity-powered, personalized message service to the public, allowing both brands and artists to send highly personalized messages to their fans. Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. Post launch, we are also looking at business aspects – for example, the fact that we need to involve the movie theatres in a larger way. myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., Communication.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles music scene is very important for us because of connections. All of our team consists of not only composers but also for example, Karl Moestl does the creative marketing and the artist relations for us. Thanks for joining us Roland. ” article.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). So much for resting!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. So with DataSift I’m doubling down.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

One way is to automate the process, which is what Los Angeles-based CallFire has been helping its business customers with. Dinesh Ravishankar: CallFire is a platform that allows businesses to automate their conversations with their customers. What is CallFire? It's a way we differentiate ourselves and our value proposition.

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MARCH 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based FameBit (www.famebit.com) has developed a new platform which lets any content creator connect with brands, without the need for an agency or MCN, to help them grow their content and network. We have a 98 percent approval rate on our platform. How big of a following do YouTubers need to use your platform?

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform.

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