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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets.

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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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MAY 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net said Tuesday afternoon that it has filed a lawsuit against a former employee of its SnapNames subsidiary, Nelson Brady, related to the shill bidding scandal at SnapNames. According to Oversee.net, it is seeking over $33 million in damages, including punitive damages, from Nelson Brady.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Pluggedin Media , which operates a web site focused on streaming of high quality, music videos in HD and broadcast quality, is looking for a buyer. O'Brien is one of the co-founders of Xdrive, which was sold to AOL in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Pluggedin Media , which operates a web site focused on streaming of high quality, music videos in HD and broadcast quality, is looking for a buyer. O'Brien is one of the co-founders of Xdrive, which was sold to AOL in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Ninjathat (www.ninjathat.com)--recently graduated from the Dreamit Ventures accelerator in Philadelphia--is a Los Angeles startup creating a marketplace for connecting students with small jobs--"missions"--for working professions, alumni, and businesses. Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com) has figured out one way--which is to connect those mobile users with ads from app developers, who have the opposite problem of trying to boost their user base. What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were.

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MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Before Harrison Metal, Erik was most recently vice president of product management and strategy at TripAdvisor, the largest travel community site on the Web. Howard Marks is the founder and co-chair of StartEngine, Los Angeles’ largest startup accelerator, determined to make LA a top tech entrepreneurial city.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

With our product, what they see on our site is seen across many different places. That was back in 2005, and the premise was that there were lots of sites to help job seekers and employers connect, but they didn't work for a segment of the population, such as dishwashers, busboys, and others who did not have access to the Internet.

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MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. In 2005, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and I took the ideas we had been working on and started--along with J.D.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about?

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. It's unique, in that it encompasses the concept that the kids are empowered to run the community, instead of just hanging out and visiting it like most sites.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We make that easy to do, to handle multiple sites with our solution.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. A lot of it was around stability.

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MARCH 12, 2009

We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. So how did you end up in Los Angeles, and why did you move down here?

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We are not trying to reinvent the fan, and are not trying to be a betting site.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in? Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago.

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MAY 27, 2009

He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California. He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. It will be interesting to see what happens with the Los Angeles venture capital market.

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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. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites.

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JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive.

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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 did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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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. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. TechStars and YCombinator really have pioneered the model.

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