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APRIL 12, 2017

I imagine the link with Ashton, Guy, and Ron really helped opened up doors for A-Grade? People welcomed us with open arms, and always wanted us to co-invest, because they didn't see us as competitive. And of course, that entrepreneur has to have the passion to pursue solving that problem. Chris Hollod: For sure.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica. As a serial entrepreneur, what are you doing differently this time based on what you learned from your prior ventures? At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Targeting images and adding video content is a nice premium alternative to the traditional buys that are extremely competitive.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Coin Market is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Southern California ( SoCal ), more specifically, Santa Monica. In addition, we also see a huge opportunity and growth potential in the space, so we decided to launch CoinMKT to help bring cryptocurrency to the masses. Any competition? We have lots of competition.

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JULY 13, 2012

On Tuesday, July 10, Crowdfunder hosted Crowdstart LA, the first crowdsourced startup contest at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The event was sold out, attracting founders, angels, VC’s and future entrepreneurs in the LA Startup Community. TradeYa Inc. transactions does not involve any money.

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JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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MARCH 26, 2012

The Los Angeles startup is looking to help connect travelers with local guides and hosts. He helped us develop the algorithm, which suggests people in your destination most in common with you. There is no other site that helps you connect with people and also finds those with things in common.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. I’ll explain in detail below. What does it do? How can they claim this?

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. What our program does, is if you get a question wrong, we help determine where you need help. The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. The Startups.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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