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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based eByline , a startup developing a marketplace for journalists and freelance writers, said today that it has raised $1.5M Tags: ebyline startup marketplace freelance publishing writing writers freelancer venture capital scripps newspaper. in a first round of funding. The round came from E.W.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. I'm a bootstrapper, and super-scrappy.

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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. How did you guys end up working together on investments?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

the Private Fund Transparency Act) and any other such legislative proposals that will, unnecessarily, impose new regulatory burdens on the venture capital industry whole-scale. To put the importance of venture capital in perspective, the venture capital industry has created over tens of millions of jobs for the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). I hate to put us into the pre-seed and seed area, so I am saying literally, first institutional capital.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Los Angeles-based Luxury Presence , a new startup which provides websites and digital marketing services to real estate agents, has raised $5.4M The funding was led by Switch Ventures, and also included Bessemer Venture Partners, Toba Capital, plus Gerald Risk, Peter Kelly, Jonathan Erlich, and Blaine Vess.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Dan Dato: The quickest way to describe it is it's a Techstars-like, YCombinator-like startup accelerator. What is Upstart.la?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I love cars--I grew up in SoCal, and my father was really into cars, and didn't have sons. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. How did you manage that?

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. What kind of writing and writers are you targeting? WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta.

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MARCH 22, 2011

But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists. Opportunity #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. We then went out to raise money, and got started on development.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

We sat down with Jeff to learn more about his background, his new startup, Convertro, and how Facebook's once offered more for his office lease than his startup was worth. Suddenly, we've created transparency to how things are really working, so that you can start spending money on those things and get customers others haven't gotten.

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. That's when you start meddling in the company. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. We spoke with founder Neal Roche about his startup, which provides testing tools for the electric vehicle (EV) market.

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MARCH 29, 2012

In yet more money for the subscription e-commerce sector in Los Angeles, Quarterly , a startup which delivers monthly, curated gifts from cultural influencers via subscription, has raised $1.25M in a funding round. The funding included True Ventures and Collaborative Fund. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

However, in a very unusual move, the City of Los Angeles has tapped a true technology veteran and insider, well known to those here in the industry-- Peter Marx , most recently at Qualcomm--to head up the city''s efforts to both adopt technology and improve the city''s relationship with its growing technology companies.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Sean McDonald is founder of Jute Networks (www.jutenetworks.com), which is in a startup developing highly visual, graphical tools to help people use their professional networks and connections to further their business. Our company, Jute Networks, is a startup that is about a year and a half old. What is Jute Networks?

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MARCH 22, 2010

For our Insights and Opinions section today, Frank Peters --angel investor and podcaster at the Frank Peters Show --offers up his take of Guy Kawasaki's Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists. I have to say something positive, but you're not getting me to write a check. That was a good presentation!". Who will acquire you?

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. Early on, we realized that because Twitter was having issues keeping the site live and up, we needed to solve that for our users in order to build our business.

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JULY 20, 2011

She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago. It was an opportunity I didn't want to pass up.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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MAY 11, 2010

We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company. We have almost a thousand bloggers who are writing reviews about the products we offer, and we also review them from our own point of view, to help support parents decisions and learning about products in the real world.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. Can you talk about how Redpoint splits up investment -- do certain partners handle certain industries, or is it more geographic? Fouad ElNaggar: It's pretty broad.

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JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. Mark Suster: Let's start at the 50,000 foot level, then I'll segue into that question. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? We'll even write a half a million check.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group. The traditional way to handle that is to write code.

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