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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat, reported its results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that its fourth quarter revenues were up 36 percent to a record, $390M. Snap says it now has around 186 million daily active users, which were flat from quarter-to-quarter. on its quarter, which ended December 31, 2018.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Santa Monica-based ResumeBucket says today that it has hit a milestone of 1 million communications between employers and job seekers on the site, and now has over 600,000 users in its database. The firm said it is approaching 5,000 active companies using its site for finding talent. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Santa Monica-based LifeCrowd , the social activity discovery site headed by Bong Koh, said Friday that it has expanded into three new regions, and launched officially out of Los Angeles accelerator MucherLab. The idea behind the site is to help users connect with others, find activities to do with friends, and meet new people.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Financial Analysts primary functions include data base query, financial planning, data analysis, and reporting of DreamHosts financial activities. Senior Network Engineer , TeleSign. Enervee is a Santa Monica based startup focused on bringing the MPG Rating to online shopping.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. It's unclear.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Santa Monica-based Adconion Media Group , an online advertising network, announced today that it has acquired certain assets of Joost , the online video site founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Adconion offers pre-roll ad placement for its clients.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said today in an S-1 filing that it expects its IPO to be between $14.00 Demand Media runs such sites as LiveStrong and eHow, along with a network of other media and content focused sites. and $16.00 READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Ahead of its IPO, Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online domain name and media publishing business run by Richard Rosenblatt, updated its IPO filings Thursday, saying that it has granted $30.8M in additional, stock-based compensation to its executive officers, if the firm completes an IPO before March of next year. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Funk- has plenty of experience on the other side of the table as a venture capitalist, having funded such successful SoCal firms as Sandpiper Networks, Rent.com and Shopzilla. My hometown of Santa Monica and the surrounding region have surged onto the national landscape in the past 12 months as a hotbed of startup activity.

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/).

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MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events.

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JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. The reason is because that we ensure the information about a local business is completely active and visible. It's a pretty big exercise.

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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. However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The magazine turned its attention this month towards the Los Angeles innovation and technology economy in a section guest edited by StartEngine co-founder Howard Marks , including a reception held Wednesday evening at the Viceroy in Santa Monica. Big disclaimer: the author and editor was one of the honorees at the event).

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

He's also a very active angel investor. Social and instant messaging, plus mobile broadband, makes it possible to serve a global clientele from anywhere � and Santa Monica is still my favorite place overall, so I'm there almost every month for at least a few days to work with our LA team and regional clients. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

and Europe and recently released its real-time on-street parking solution for drivers in Los Angeles and Santa Monica and Austin. Through its vast partner network of parking owners and operators as well as cities.” ParkMe is now available in 500 cities across the U.S. Build a Technology Team.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Every startup selected and entering into the program will be awarded $50,000 in VC funding, mentoring, and free office space in Santa Monica area within walking distance of the Third Street Promenade.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Every startup selected and entering into the program will be awarded $50,000 in VC funding, mentoring, and free office space in Santa Monica area within walking distance of the Third Street Promenade.

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APRIL 18, 2010

I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. You can log in at any time and see a realtime indication of how much traffic is on your website, where that traffic is coming from, what stories people are reading and how many people are active vs. inactive. Basically, it rocks!

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JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. Parties: Networking parties every night to help you meet key players and friends including the Opening Party and Closing Party.

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APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. Thanks for the time today!

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JUNE 18, 2010

But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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MAY 26, 2011

Although there are tons and tons of ventures going after solving healthcare, there is very little activity in dental. The model is a subscription membership model, where you get the benefits of being in the network, where we can offer these discounted rates, which are attractive to patients. It's a huge, huge sector. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Los Angeles area has seen a surge in the last month in companies and organizations looking to bolster entrepreneurial activity and startups in Southern California. Joining that surge last week in startup activity was Science, Inc. We're very supportive of the accelerators, and will be very active with the accelerators.

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JUNE 21, 2011

He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). You build relationships with communications and activity. It should include all of your communications, no matter what social network, and no matter who on your team has done it.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Los Angeles has seen its own startup scene develop with Silicon Beach, which stretches between Santa Monica and Playa Vista. Some of the standout technology innovators include: ClippPR : ClippPR provides businesses with a simple way to track any type of online activity — press releases, videos, blog mentions, etc.

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MARCH 4, 2021

We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business. I went from the highest risk activities in the military, to high risk, financial activities. What I did, is I went to every single event I could go to, and networked my way into a small investor base.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. Life Crowd – A group activity aggregator to help like-minded discover, plan, and join group activities. “Would you like a free drink ticket?”

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APRIL 10, 2016

Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). He’s proved much more efficient that I ever was at tracking the activities of the community. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I sat on panels.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers. That's certainly the case in the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? We have standing agreements to drive revenue share from all of those merchants in our network. Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

To that end, last week, Los Angeles-based MuckerLab (www.muckerlab.com) announced its plans--and a big lineup of local CEO mentors--to start up a new, YCombinator- and TechStars-type program in Los Angeles, headed by former Silicon Valley venture capitalist Erik Rannala , and affiliated with the TechStars Network. Erik, thanks for the time.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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JANUARY 24, 2011

We have about 500 pretty active users, ranging from agencies to major record labels, to individual artists. Once we get to scale, it will start generating a network effect. An example of that is, we might be able to show you the hottest concerts in West Hollywood, or the hottest acts in Santa Monica. READ MORE>>.

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