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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Los Angeles-based marketing technology provider Shopzilla said this morning that it has officially chanced its company named to Connexity , to help highlight the shift of the company from comparison shopping to technology driven marketing solutions. READ MORE>>.

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Ventura Incubator Advertising Los Angeles 185

Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

Heller founded Wrapify in early 2015 with the idea of creating a business that would pay motorists to wrap their cars in digitally printed advertising.

Advertising 45

Advertising Glendale San Diego Incubator 45

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Tim Cadogan , OpenX (Pasadena, advertising). Asher Delug , Airpush (Los Angeles, advertising). Jerry Jao , Retention Science (Los Angeles, analytics/advertising). Jason Lehmbeck , Datapop (Los Angeles, advertising).

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , which operates an online advertising exchange, priced its IPO late Tuesday evening, saying that it will sell 4,666,677 shares of its Class A common stock at $18.00 The company will begin trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market as TTD. and $18.00 and $16.00 per share on August 31st. and $18.00

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AUGUST 23, 2016

The company says it has filed to trade as TTD. The advertising technology company is led by Jeff Green. The IPO is being underwritten by Citigroup, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets, Needham & Company, and Raymond James. Green is a serial entrepreneur , having sold his last firm, AdECN, to Microsoft. READ MORE>>.

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Ventura Startup Incubator Advertising 100

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JUNE 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based startup studio and incubator Science Inc. The company has been part of 500 Startups'' latest San Francisco acclerator class since earlier this year. The company has been part of 500 Startups'' latest San Francisco acclerator class since earlier this year. READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Incubator Content Class 164

socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2014

The company--which has operations in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon--said it raised the funding from Ed Wilson (former President of NBC Enterprises), Robin Richards (former CEO of Vivendi Universal, and who also has been involved with Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3.com, READ MORE>>.

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Capital Funding Seed Funding Incubator 138

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Greystripe , an operator of a brand-focused mobile advertising network. The company expects Greystripe to add $24 to $26M in revenues for the remainder of 2011. The deal was worth $70M in cash. in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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Westlake Village Steamboat Ventures Advertising Incubator 170

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. for ThinkNear Tuesday morning, and make the company part of its mobile, local advertising group. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Southern California SoCal Incubator Advertising 159

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The company's technology allows search marketers to automatically create more relevant search ads, which result in a better response rate than a standard generic ad. Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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Yahoo Paid Search GRP Partners SoCalTech 145

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2014

If it seems strange to find the inventor of Bitcoin living in the San Gabriel Valley, it''s actually not all that surprising given the area is home to one of the most prominent research universities in the United States, The California Institute of Technology ; NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; and the original Internet incubator, Idealab.

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San Gabriel La Canada Flintridge CalTech La Canada 124

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

Peter Csathy , the CEO of San Diego''s Sorenson Media , and digital media veteran, has departed the company, and will head up a new legal and investment group formed by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. There are dozens of legal firms servicing the high tech industry here, based on our tracking of those companies and their clients.

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Media High Tech Santa Monica Southern California 168

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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. Ross Levinsohn of Fuse Capital also is involved in incubating Tecca. Why did you decide to incubate this firm--rather than fund something already in the market?

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup studio and incubator Science said late Wednesday that it has seen its first exit, and has sold Playhaven to RockYou. The two companies said Playhaven serves its mobile ads to 18,000 games and 250 million monthly active users. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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Incubator Mobile Acquisition Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? It's unclear. Howard Marks, co-founder of StartEngine surveys the crowd at Demo Day). READ MORE>>.

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Startup Commerce Santa Monica Mentor 256

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. Companies are looking at diminishing returns, and were finding it more challenging to scale on Facebook.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

Or in the case of the LinkedIn outreach: Hi John, I'm leading the marketing efforts for StartupRoar , an early-stage startup that sells to B2B advertisers. Accelerator / Incubator Mentors Most accelerators and incubators have a long list of potential mentors. This happens a lot at the incubators / accelerators.

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CTO Coach Mentor Startup Technical Advisors 259

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

The successes Engage:BDR has right now, helps highlight LA as a city for tech companies to develop and grow. We talked to Ted Dhanik, the founder of Engage:BDR, about his company and the future of marketing. As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR.

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Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

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MAY 22, 2009

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. I founded a company called thePlatform, which is sort of industrial strength video publishing. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0:

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Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers.

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Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.

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Class Startup Web Design Mentor 168

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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Startup Entrepreneur Funding Incubator 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 31, 2010

Higher ROI: Referral marketing, Social Media Marketing, PR, Advertising. OC's Premium Incubator - Supporting Start-Up Businesses in our Business Collective". It should discuss the different strategies you intent to utilize to market your product. Do: Utilize multiple sources of marketing. Don't: Ignore the need for Pre-sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Once you come down from the high, the great product you built slowly fades away or maybe its turned into a company that’s worked on when time is found for it. Teams are competing not only for spots in top accelerators and incubators, but for $50,000 seed capital, co-working space, iPhones, and other exciting tech products.

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Startup Incubator Education Mentor 88

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

If you have a spouse and kids, one of you needs to keep a solid job at a dependable large company like Intel, Apple, or HP. There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

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Sample Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. But otherwise, startup companies should seek out publicity and the open sharing of information, from day one. This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup News 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

If you have a spouse and kids, one of you needs to keep a solid job at a dependable large company like Intel, Apple, or HP. There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

Startup 100

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Conference 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity.

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Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. But otherwise, startup companies should seek out publicity and the open sharing of information, from day one. This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy.

Startup 101

Startup Search Engine Optimization Course Media 101

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. We're also updating the format.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Our original name when we launched the firm was Digital Coast Partners, and we focused on being a consulting firm, investment bank, and incubator. And last but not least, I was the founder and lead guitarist of our company rock band, Full Monty. We want to emulate great companies such as Allen & Co., Montgomery & Co.

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Southern California Invest Media Content 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor. But otherwise, startup companies should seek out publicity and the open sharing of information, from day one. This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy.

Startup 91

Startup Search Engine Optimization Course Media 91

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Are there specific kinds of companies who would apply? We want to include companies that illustrate what LA does best. It's one of the few instances where you take a company out of Silicon Valley, because it was more logical and better to be here.

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CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194