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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Santa Monica-based eHarmony --which has been in the midst of a major refresh of its externally facing design, apps, and business to cater to the new, mobile user base--said this week that it has also completed a major, IT infrastructure refresh on the back of its services. architecture. architecture. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Santa Monica-based Boingo Wireless has inked a deal with a telecom organization to help provide its members with Wi-Fi offloading. The two said that Boingo will white label Wi-Fi solutions to CCA carriers as part of the deal. The two said that Boingo will white label Wi-Fi solutions to CCA carriers as part of the deal.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Search engine giant Google said over the weekend that the firm has been developing technology for self driving cars, driving automated cars across California, including Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

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JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Our interview today is with Gabe Gottlieb , Co-founder and CEO at Santa Monica-based advertising analytics firm Pathmatics (www.pathmatics.com). Gabe Gottlieb: We provide competitive and market intelligence for online advertising. We have now been doing this for almost six years now, in LA and Santa Monica.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. In case you were out of town for the weekend, BetterWorks and Coloft of Santa Monica put together an amazing and area stimulating HackFest ( #hackfest ) on August 14th. Teams: CoderTie. Where is my Shit?

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

For the first half of our show, we actually set up a store front on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and put their product in a retail setting, and let consumers and investors run through the gamut, allowing them to interact in real time, and get feedback on their packaging and products, and even recommend it to their friends.

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JULY 18, 2016

You’ll be able to rub elbows with people that can help you get where you need to go. We’ve also partnered with WeAreLATech , a startup resource that can help everyone from potential employees to budding founders to get acclimated to the LA ecosystem with job listings, event calendars, and startup profiles. Cost : $10.

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APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA.

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Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

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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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MARCH 14, 2014

The company recently ran a hackathon at the company''s Santa Monica offices, bringing in outside teams to build and create new, innovative products built on to of its software interfaces--something a lot of companies have been thinking about. steinlauf edmunds hackathon hack software developer contest competition automotive auto'

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JUNE 19, 2013

We spoke with Ben about how Burstly is now creating a company to help mobile developers create, develop, distribute, and monetize their apps. Burstly is located in Santa Monica. The way we go about that is different than the competition. I helped them do their first SDK. What is Burstly? That was a lot of fun.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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. GumGum has two clients, the ad agencies/brands and the publishers.

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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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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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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica. At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley. But, I find, it helps not to be in the first-adopter echo chamber in search of problems.

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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 panel of experts not only judged the competition but also gave the companies feedback after their pitch. TradeYa Inc. transactions does not involve any money.

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JULY 11, 2010

I’ve been to the CoLoft in Santa Monica and it’s certainly a great start. I don’t think having a few facilities in a city is competitive – hopefully we’ll find a way to make it collaborative. If anyone has experience, advice or dollars and wants to help please be in touch.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. FTC is considering an investigation into Apple’s anti-competitive practices. -Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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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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AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). Anyway, to close my Twiistup 6 Summary post I will borrow from the wisdom of my forefathers, “next year in … Santa Monica.” photo credit to Brian Solis].

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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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

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. Together they do amazing things.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

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JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. We're basically about helping multi location businesses get discovered, locally. We also started offering up some aspects of our software for free to help our customers thrive in COVID. Nick Hedges: It was almost exactly a year ago.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contacts management software headed by Goldmine Software founder Jon Ferrara, looks to be shifting its sights to paid, business accounts. The firm's biggest competition is Salesforce.com. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contacts management software headed by Goldmine Software founder Jon Ferrara, looks to be shifting its sights to paid, business accounts. The firm's biggest competition is Salesforce.com. READ MORE>>.

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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. Do you think that helps in the venture investment world? Hollod is now joined up with Burkle and recording artist D.A.

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MAY 20, 2016

Enter Santa Monica's Digitzs (www.digitzs.com), , which has an all star set of advisors and investors, including Kevin Harrington (the original "Shark" on Shark Tank), and which is developing technology to help those platforms take payments. That percent is actually all over the board, very complex, and very competitive.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. We have started to build initiatives like Launchpad LA to help bring this community together and make it easier for first time entrepreneurs. Let me use LA as an example.

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