TechCrunch LA

JULY 26, 2022

Four years and hundreds of long lines later, the truck is still there, but the company is taking on what co-founder Nile Dreiling calls “a stale $40 billion donut industry ” by expanding its presence into brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles after raising $9 million in financing. The fun part?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

To prove that point, tonight I had the privilege of hearing him speak at Lean LA , a Los Angeles group that helps high tech start-ups build great companies on a budget. He told us how important it is to empower our team to make decisions that will help achieve company goals.

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Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. The objects we are focused on are out-of-home advertising. In that market, there are literally no ROI metrics.

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Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

StartUp Beat

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

If you’re like today’s typical consumer, you most likely tune out TV ads – and you probably can’t remember the last time you heard a radio advertisement. Identifying the target market’s “peers” and enlisting their help to reach a brand’s target consumers is essential to a product’s success.

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Social Media Software Review Media Marketing 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix (www.acemetrix.com) launched its software-as-a-service, TV advertising rating service last month, and we spoke with the firm's CEO and co-founder, Steve Goldman, recently to learn more about the firm. Steve Goldman: Our Ace Scores are an overall score of advertising creative effectiveness.

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Advertising Palomar Startup Custom 100

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2016

How do you help online brand owners both reduce the abandonment of a shopping cart by online shoppers�and also get the word out about their brands? To help them convert more visitors, we allow brands to give visitors a discount, and we make that discount intelligent. We're doing that before the transaction.

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Social Media Social Network Examples Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We saw one today which helps you track how much of a certain thing a day you do is healthy for you.

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Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

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. Medium and long term, I am excited to see how this involves into a true sport, bigger on every scale and metric than the NBA or NFL. READ MORE>>.

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Riot Games Southern California Invest Startup 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

However, on the other hand, some ideas are more sensitive than others especially in the development phase, and an entrepreneur should be careful to disclose the idea only to those in whom he/she has a reasonable level of trust and who are genuinely in a position to help the company. How did it help you? It sounds interesting.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2017

In the world of social networking, there are lots of apps and services which connect you with people you know, but not so many which help you connect with others like you. Los Angeles-based exactly.me (www.exactly.me) is hoping to change that, with an app that connects you with other like minded individuals, based on your reaction to photos.

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Startup Social Network Southern California Mobile 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Mike Norman – WeFunder , bringing crowd investing to the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Users: More than 280mm monthly users worldwide use its apps or see its advertising.

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