socalTECH
JUNE 23, 2010
Irvine-based HireRight , a provider of on-demand employment screening and drug screening services, announced today that it has acquired Powerchex Limited , a pre-employment screening firm based in the United Kingdom. Powerchex provides pre-empoyment screening to companies in the UK, and was founded in 2005.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. The company was called Red Beacon.
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2010
One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. That runs either in the enterprise, or outside the enterprise at a service provider, basically replicating what Amazon does in a private or private implementation for a service provider.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 14, 2012
We caught up with Co-founder and CEO Atif Siddiqi , who told us about the service. Atif Siddiqi: We've created a student centric marketplace, that allows businesses, working professionals, and alumni to hire student workers on demand. How does the service work, and can people use it yet? What is Ninjathat?
socalTECH
JUNE 13, 2019
When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV. That just doesn't happen.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. Let me explain. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.
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