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JANUARY 9, 2013

Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at. We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California. Earbits has created a service which lets you browse through over 200 stations of streaming audio, advertising free.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

My biggest takeaway this year was truly understanding the strength and cohesion of the Los Angeles startup community. There was no monetary reward for those who participated (and Startup Boost does not take fees or equity from the companies that we help). Yet they turned-out each and every week of our six-week programs.

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JUNE 16, 2020

FameBit , the online marketplace which had allowed advertisers to connect with YouTube influencers, is no more, and has been renamed YouTube BrandConnect , Google said on Tuesday. FameBit was one of the big success stories out of startup incubator Science, Inc., with over 25,000 subscribers. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday.

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JUNE 10, 2014

Think your startup has got the perks? Fast growing, mobile advertising startup Airpush , which has quietly grown to nearly $100M in revenues, has something probably no other startup has in the office: a hot tub. airpush venice advertising mobile expansion jobs perks' The company is led by Asher Delug. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Gil Elbaz , one of the co-founders of Applied Semantics --the firm that developed the technology behind Google's AdSense--has launched a new startup, Factual. Applied Semantics is one of Southern California's most stealthy successes, and developed the key AdSense part of Google's advertising engine. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2017

What's wrong with the online advertising industry? Initially, we were focused on adtech, but we have split up our team and initiated based on deploying our Blockchain-based protocol, called adChain. We just started the conversation. We've just started talking about our initiative, and how to bring Blockchain to the industry.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

We chatted with Matt and Joey on what they're up to. How did you come up with the idea for the company? Matt Knox: The idea came up, because most people have their own method of figuring out what they want to watch next. I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? The premise is that this was a forward auction, and it's a disappointment to broadcasters if the prices don't go up.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Neal Pecchenino , the founder and CEO of Boxi , while trying to advertise the brand of a company he was working for--how do you reach a lot of people with a branding campaign, affordably? We spoke with Neal about the startup. Neal Pecchenino: We are the largest truck advertising company in the country. What is Boxi?

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP? Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet.

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MARCH 2, 2012

It's not an uncommon experience, and one which drove Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly to start PageWoo (www.pagewoo.com), a service which is aimed at helping businesses create mobile-friendly landing pages for their advertisements. What drove you to make this a product startup, after running an agency for several years?

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP.com? Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Woodland Hills-based REX Real Estate Exchange , a startup which helps homeowners sell their homes without using an MLS, has raised $15M in a Series B funding. Ryan said that the company uses artificial intelligence and machine learning--plus such things are social media and targeted advertising--to find prospective home buyers for homes.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Monahan was most recently at AlphaBoost, a startup which was building Facebook advertising reporting software. Monahan also co-founded The Comotion Group (acquired by Sharethrough) and was also an advisor to Wildfire (acquired by Google). Science said that Monahan will head up social customer acquisition for its portfolio firms.

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JULY 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the stealth-mode startup which announced a funding round this week, has a unique pitch to potential employees: the firm is offering up $11,000 wrapped in Bacon, an oil painting of the new employee, Cuban cigars, a year's supply of beer, and more prizes to new employees or people who refer friends to work at the startup.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based ClickTripz (www.clicktripz.com), is a startup developing ad solutions for travel publishers, and thought we''d learn more, so we spoke with Ross Weber , co-founder and CEO of ClickTripz, to hear more about the company. Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What is ClickTripz?

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

But, how do you start? The old way was difficult, time consuming, and often expensive; referrals, calling up lawyers, going through initial consultations. We spoke with Michael Chasin, the company''s co-founder, about the startup. You put your project up, and shortly thereafter, you get price quotes from lawyers.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. the "startup culture" at the company as among reasons to work for the company.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. What does your startup do? What's your background, and how did the startup come about? Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 How'd you decide to start FindTheBest? We've all done well from startups in the past.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

This morning's interview is with Gil Elbaz , founder of Factual (www.factual.com), a new startup based here in Los Angeles focused on open data sharing and accuracy. Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. What's the story on how you ended up starting Factual from Google?

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

The top 10 companies only make up 45 percent of the entire space. In the last few years, we've seen a spurt of activity where technology has started to penetrate the industry, and has started to change it. Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages.

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JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. More than 150 speakers include top executives from local accelerators, venture capitalists, entertainment powerhouses, brands, and emerging and established start-ups.

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JULY 6, 2011

In a sign that demand for employees from Southern California technology firms is on the rise, two, separate announcements Wednesday from local companies indicates that hiring demand at local companies is up, and companies are again scrambling to fill positions.

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JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. Matt Cooper: What we're really trying to do, is reshape the advertising space. All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Businesses were hooking up their PCs with things like Novell.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the new startup of Ryan and Chad Steelberg, said this morning that it has launched social media campaigns for three companies. BAT said that its platform allows advertisers to tap into online fan communities on such sites as Facebook and Twitter. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. We talked with Jeff about his new startup, and where it fits into the Internet ad market. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

We spoke with Elliot Darvick , one of the firm's co-founders, on what the Los Angeles startup is all about. Unbucket can be used by couples, family members, and close friends, replacing something they might have kept in Google documents or maybe just in their heads. Elliot Darvick: It started as a mother's day gift, actually.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

Our focus was to utilize new technology for streaming over the internet, broadcasting underserved sports which normally don't end up on TV, in HD quality, for viewers across the country and world. We started with a small, high school, Rancho Santa Margarita Catholic High School, and broadcast their football games, the whole season, in 2006.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Managing Director: Bill Maris (formerly of GV/Google Ventures) Investment interests: Health care investments. Managing Director: Arjan Schutte, Kathleen Utecht Investment interests: Fintech startups.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: We actually started two and a half years ago. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. It ended up becoming our breakout product. What's the story behind Deal Current?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The startup is backed by Morpheus Ventures, NextEquity Partners, Visa, and March Capital. We caught up with Amit to hear how things are going. Any offline retailer can sign up for Brig, and they can get a database of everyone who has visited their stores in the last five years or so. They ask us, where can we sign up?

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