socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business. So, with the last funds out of my fund, I started Miso Robotics.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. We will have an amazing treat for you all.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. What is MomentFeed doing p>now?

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socalTECH

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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Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

socalTECH

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. You just left MySpace--when did you decide to start Science?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. at the Dethrone Base Camp in Santa Monica. Our line-up of panelists include many of Southern California’s top VCs, Angels and Startup Accelerators. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2016 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, February 11 from 7 p.m. at Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Our line-up of panelists include top VCs, Angels and Startup Accelerators. Joe Guzel leads investing activity at CrossCut Ventures. Want to Sponsor?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. What was behind that decision?

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socalTECH

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. What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform.

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. biz, and all of those alternative choices.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Glazier--who is was most recently CEO of Eventful, but has a long history in San Diego's tech industry--sat down with us to talk about the new startup. How was it you ended up in San Diego? How does this work?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. In terms of money, and in terms of brands, I think you're starting to see a lot of endemic brands sponsoring e-sports tournaments and individual teams.

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Riot Games Southern California Invest Mobile 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Josh Hartwell: We officially incorporate in 2003, though we started laying groundwork for the company in 2002. We started back then, because my other co-founder and I had worked very closely with JAMDAT on JAMDAT Bowling and Fifa Soccer. I think we were able to effectively transition, because our technology platform.

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Mobile Java Google Startup 168

Tech Zulu Event

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. Social Annex – A social commerce platform that integrates into your business website to socialize everyday ecommerce actions. “Would you like a free drink ticket?”

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Technical Review Userplane Social Media Santa Monica 63

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. We both agree that VCs are better off not doing “seed investing as an option” type activities. But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

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Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. I meet with Bay Area entrepreneurs all the time and am actively looking to make investments there. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. This way we keep the questions fresh and up to date with current events. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. We write and create our own content for the game.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

LawPivot is a legal Q&A website enabling companies, especially startups, to confidentially receive crowdsourced legal answers from highly qualified lawyers for a fraction of the cost. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. Community Sponsors. Giving Away An Apple TV.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Congratulations to all the selected startup companies!

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc.,

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. For those of you who may not know about StartupDemo, it is an event that TechZulu and Schmoozd have partnered up to bring you some of the hottest startups around.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. Co-Founded by Jesse Bouman and Gaia Dempsey, the company serves technology startups and companies with a focus on sustainability.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu. What’s keeping you up at night? What are you working on now?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. Headquarted in Santa Monica, CA, CallFire is dedicated to providing high-availability systems, intuitive user interfaces, furious developer support, and unparalleled customer care in order to transform how companies do business.

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CalTech Idealab Tech Coast Angels Enterprise Forum 79

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. But, with our existing businesses, joining Curate can be a value add for an entrepreneur or business owner, who has a great initial site with a sports/outdoor focus and just needs a bigger platform.

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Content Demand Sites Media 165

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The video is premised by a simple statement “Where images and ads hook up.” We’re no strangers to GumGum ( we’ve covered their company before ) and they’re a huge part of Silicon Beach’s roster of startup highlights. ” Wait, what? It’s a promotional video for a technology company.

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Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Startup 3.0:

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