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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. I've seen numerous startups revamp their entire business based on the performance of Facebook advertising vs. more traditional online marketing approaches. (3)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project (www.rubiconproject.com) recently had its IPO, making it one of the big success stories of Southern California''s technology startup world. We looked at the market, and thought--why can''t someone do for advertising what the NASDAQ does for stock trading.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. Filled with innovation.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. But, do they really help? We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. That singular focus and dedication helped. It was really great.

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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. Whether that's Facebook Messenger, SMS, LinkedIn, or any other messaging platform, it all adds us, to more messaging than on social networks. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here at Sparkhouse in southern, California, we aren’t aware of a decrease in literacy (though the replacement of emoticons for words might say otherwise), but perhaps it tickles a certain part of the brain that enjoys the easiness of visual stimulation over reading all those words on that tiny screen. Target Your Audience.

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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. That's now what we're advertising.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 -- DIGIDAY:ON MEDIA: February 23, 2011: Where THE digital media moguls caucus on the business of buying and planning and advertising across digital platforms.

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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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JANUARY 3, 2014

Everyone thinks of Northern California as the place to do anything technology related, but for unique power users and entertainment enthusiasts like me, you realized that entertainment--my first love--is in Southern California. That''s why I moved here. It''s been a really good move. One is it''s much more social.

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2008

We talked with Richard Yen, the firm's Director of Venture Capital and New Media, about the company's link to Univision, what kinds of investments it is making, and his impressions as an investor of the opportunity here in Southern California. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

We talked with Richard Yen, the firm's Director of Venture Capital and New Media, about the company's link to Univision, what kinds of investments it is making, and his impressions as an investor of the opportunity here in Southern California. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. So, we're partnered with them on a couple of different levels. Can you explain that process?

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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

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JULY 31, 2014

This month, Siemer and Associates hosted its 4th Annual invitation-only Silicon Beach Summit at Casa Del Mar and Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. Hitesh Chawla, CEO. Silver Push.

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Media Technology Truecar Southern California 84

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

One way is to automate the process, which is what Los Angeles-based CallFire has been helping its business customers with. Dinesh Ravishankar: CallFire is a platform that allows businesses to automate their conversations with their customers. What is CallFire? We also offers similar, telephony APIs, as well.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. Studios use those for premieres, for cast chats, and so on to take advantage of interest in the entertainment and to speak to a community before a film opens.

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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Does advertising work in the social networking world? an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. Our goal, is to help businesses and support causes, via three pillars.

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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

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MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm. Go Boulder!

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

We have added several well respected and experienced institutional investors who have helped us improve our thinking across many areas. In addition, we added some great new talent to the firm this year including Andrew Albert, Ryan Sefidfard and Zach Veenstra and this team has helped to greatly expand our deal sourcing program.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Edmunds.com said the deal will help marketers reach specific car shoppers and buyers through Oracle's BlueKai Marketplace and other platforms. According to Edmunds.com, the exclusive deal puts its ata assets on the Oracle Data Cloud, which allows marketers to access that information for their own use. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders, the CEO and co-founder, of the company is hoping to change that, by providing tools to consumers to help pay off their debt and achieve their life goals. The company already had momentum, and $350,000 in revenue, providing a special process to help banks communicated with defaulted borrowers. 500 company.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. That's when phone calls were a dime, so you get an idea how long ago that was. That's when phone calls were a dime, so you get an idea how long ago that was. So cheer up everybody, this too will pass. Having fun again.

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JUNE 13, 2013

James DeJulio: We''re a social content development platform. There''s a really big need in the marketing world to empower people to do this kind of work, and help solve the content crisis, so to speak. James DeJulio: It''s a really interesting, Southern California story. Explain how Tongal works? READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com), Why San Diego?

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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. Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Diamond Sponsor. Community Sponsors.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

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MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. Our job is to help capture some of that demand.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. This is not so much because others are going to try to steal the idea, however, there is simply no upside in broadcasting your strategy to any would-be competitors. How did it help you? and also to local advertisements.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89