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DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need.

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Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 191

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. This reflection comes from Michael Jones of Science, Inc. www.science-inc.com), the startup studio which has been behind such companies as Dollar Shave Club, Famebit, HelloSociety, and many others. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Kelly Perdew , Co-founder and General Partner of Moonshots Capital.

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Capital Technical Review Truecar Southern California 124

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Grant Hosford: My favorite consumer tech trend is voice activated assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Education eHarmony Southern California Idealab 172

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. I wound down my old company, and spun up Hopscotch, to build a better platform that could be used by not just the biggest operators, but everyone. Laurence Sotsky: That's a great question.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Our investment in PlayVS and the subsequent launch of their Season Zero high school e-sports platform was very exciting.

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Dollar Shave Club Tsavo Userplane Malibu 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area.

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Southern California has seen a surge in accelerators and incubators looking to spawn new startups in the region. The challenge for those manufacturers is providing a software platform for those devices to run on for the consumers. We are charging a platform license fee so they can distribute that application with their devices.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

Aggregage , the platform that powers StartupRoar has added a powerful personalization engine. The site will look at your activity on these sites and the content of what you share. You can partially control your interests via the Subscription page as shown below: This will change over time based on your LinkedIn and twitter activity.

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CTO Hire Newsletter Content Sites 175

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Lane Soelberg: We are a social platform for families involved in youth sports. The social platform is very family friendly, and provides all of the front end functions for parents and kids involved in Little League, Pop Warner, or whatever group activity that keeps a family busy. How did WePlay come about?

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Southern California Startup Platform Coach 183

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need.

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Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. Nikhil Jain: We already have a list of deals, from Southern California, the rest of the U.S., What is the site all about?

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Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Facebook now accounts for a staggering 25% of all display impressions (up from 9% last year), and Facebook and its advertisers are finally beginning to understand how to leverage the platform's unique capabilities.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 8, 2021

DIA is a good fit for businesses leveraging Internet-heavy applications and transmitting large data files on a regular basis because it is designed to maximize capacity to support more network activity. In the modern age, employees are using real-time technology including VoIP and video conferencing platforms to support remote work.

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Networking Southern California Design Startup 52

Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 8, 2021

DIA is a good fit for businesses leveraging Internet-heavy applications and transmitting large data files on a regular basis because it is designed to maximize capacity to support more network activity. In the modern age, employees are using real-time technology including VoIP and video conferencing platforms to support remote work.

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Networking Southern California Design Startup 52

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Were part of the uCast Global video highway, which is our way of illustrating how content is being driven locally, regionally, and globally, using our platform, but also technology we have integrated and continue to integrate with our partners. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In response, telecom carriers will need to develop how to optimize their platform to best sustain the greater amount of device connections. SCE Carrier Solutions is a local MNSP providing telecom carriers and other organizations across Southern California with reliable, cost-effective, secure, and scalable network solutions.

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Networking Competition Southern California Customer 56

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. Today, we have Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars (www.techstars.org), which has been very active this year in the startup accelerator and mentoring area.

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Southern California Snapchat Yahoo Social Media 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. He spent a number of years with another, Southern California bootstrap, Goldmine. We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? But, there wasn''t a platform out there dedicated and effective to meeting new people. Is there any feature of the product which has made it so viral? But, what is viral, is the positive experience within the platform.

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Mobile Southern California News Snapchat 245

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Mike is actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza and drinks! Grab your tickets here: We have an amazing treat for all you out there.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. Southern California companies are fundamentally part of e-sports, and both of those companies have become multi-billion dollar companies.

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Riot Games Southern California Invest Mobile 100

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. www.science-inc.com), headed by Mike Jones , the former CEO of Myspace. READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Startup Commerce Los Angeles 196

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The app, dubbed HomeHero Connect, supports phone timesheet tracking, daily activity summaries, emergency alerts and automated payments between a user and an independent home caregiver. The platform will also give jobs to thousands of caregivers seeking work from basic chores and housekeeping to the most sensitive of personal needs.

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Software Review Technical Review Southern California Summary 77

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. In terms of SoCal as a market, it's a shame.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2011

Given all this activity, what are the remaining challenges and opportunities? Why are the costs so high? Southern California Edison Co. Southern California Edison Co. In 2010, investors poured $3.7 billion into cleantech, an increase of 76% over the previous year. The Deets: Keynote Speaker. www.sce.com.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech Southern California Venture Capital 56

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Momentum Ventures is a firm which has been very active providing management expertise in Southern California, helping promising technology firms. We built a platform to manage multiple verticals, the first around nutrition and weight loss. Momentum is also the source of the new funding. Stuart, thanks for the interview.

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Social Network Tool Southern California Networking 259

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 4, 2012

Mobile has emerged as ubiquitous computing technology within the last year and is actively transforming, enhancing and disrupting existing business models as well as making entirely new business relationships viable and profitable. This 27th Annual Meeting of the Los Angeles Venture Association will be hosted by the LAVA Mobile SIG.

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LAVA Startup Mobile Report 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most video conferencing platforms, such as Zoom, have the ability to record videos while sharing a screen. Offer your employees opportunities to spend non-work-related time together in the form of lunch-ins, happy hours, and out-of-office activities to provide them a place to build team chemistry and become more connected.

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Product Training Software Review Technical Review 94

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us. They just announced their Android app (you can download here if you’re on Android or the iOS version if you’re on that platform ). I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing.

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Startup Outsource Development Mobile Southern California 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Just this year alone we have studied 3,400 North American enterprise software companies including many in SoCal and dug in deep on over 200 of these companies. Frost & Sullivan just named MediaPlatform the product leader in enterprise video platforms.

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Capital Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Equity 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Geography - Rincon is now very active in the Bay Area.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. Taher Scherzay: FavRav is basically a platform that allows small businesses to get a footprint with customers, using the referral network of social media.

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

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. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education. Event Details.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

Southern California--and particularly, Los Angeles--has always been a center of the music business, which makes it unsurprising that there are many, music-focused startups which end up starting here. We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. What is Loudvine? Vic Caretti: It's pretty simple.

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241