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MARCH 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based NationBuilder , a startup developing an online system to help political candidates and other organizations to create web sites, organize volunteers, coordinate campaigns, and more, said Thursday that it has raised $6.3M in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project is significantly boosting its executive ranks today, saying that it has named a new CTO, General Counsel, and SVP of Product Management to the firm. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

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MARCH 4, 2010

MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro, and Aber Whitcomb are taking the reins at a casual and social gaming venture called MindJolt, which announced its funding Wednesday. The new firm, based out of San Francisco, is being funded by Austin Ventures. The new firm will be headed by former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Valencia-based Capital Exchange , an online community site focused on the financial community, has been acquired by Los Angeles private equity firm Revolution Capital Group , Revolution Capital said today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The newly launched, online home improvement project site and community Porch , which is split between San Diego and Seattle, is in the midst of raising $27.7M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. in its funding round, which kicked off a couple of weeks ago. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We're looking at things from a lot of different sites, and using big data to process them. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. That lets us compare and contrast users across individual sites, and help rank the talent pool accordingly, and rank them subjectively.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Aliso Viejo-based Arkami, one of the startups in OCTANE's Launchpad Accelerator, has just zoomed past $360,000 in funding commitments on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, according to the firm's myIDkey project page. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

The financiers funding the company’s plans are a mix of Silicon Valley venture capital firms and members of Hollywood’s elite, which is only fitting for a company whose headquarters are in Los Angeles, but whose business takes it to the far flung research centers and launch facilities which support the U.S. space industry.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based MyShape , which develops a personalized shopping site for women's apparel, said today that it has named Mercedes De Luca as CEO of the firm. De Luca was most recently the company's Chief Technology Officer, and had previously served as Vice President and Chief Information Executive at Yahoo!

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JUNE 1, 2012

Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. There's an awful lot of check-in sites out there. Why would someone want to use your site? We're also funding it out of pocket.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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MARCH 9, 2010

McGovern replaces founder Greg Pulier, who is now CTO of the firm. McGovern was most recently CEO of itzbig, an online interactive job board site, and has also served as CEO of Marketwire. in a Series B funding round from Syncom Ventures, Monitor Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures, and Barshop Ventures. IVT recently landed $5.5M

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I used a company in India to develop the site, and it's mostly done. The funds have been used up on the existing development. And I use it all the time now when I get the kind of message that I received: I'm looking for a web developer to continue work on my website. It's currently in beta.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective?

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Venture backers : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It needs to be funded to be successful. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur. Is this a Wordpress hack?

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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MAY 25, 2012

One, is the discovery of awesome content, two is a place to store and publicize that awesome content, and three is being able to save your usernames and passwords to literally any site on the web, and automatically log you into those sites. The whole getting funding and everything made me realize we had to be on this full time.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. I asked him if he would consider raising $3m in stead and we would put up most of the funds. We like to be able to see the concept.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It needs to be funded to be successful. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur. Is this a Wordpress hack?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. There might be one or two mentors, one might be a CTO, another, a CEO.

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JULY 23, 2012

As a hiring manager, and as the former CTO of Buy.com, Navid Nobakht , Co-Founder of Recmnd.Me ([link] had a problem--how to really figure out if someone he was hiring could actually execute. Then, I can contact them through the site. As we're building the site, for right now, the site is completely free to use.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. We have a licensing business with that.

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MARCH 14, 2011

How did you get into the technology business? My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. Scot Richardson: We've done two rounds of funding, both angel rounds. How is the company backed? Finally, what's next for you?

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Instead of 20 comedies on one site, now you have 5000 on one site. We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

It occurred to us that a startup company with limited funding is not going to pay $5000 upfront, and that we would have loved to know the prices up front and not have to go through the same eight conversations eight times. That''s how we ended up developing this technology, to take that initial step out of the process.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We've only been working on the site for May, June, July, and August, and it's a brand new endeavor for us. Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. I was introduced to the founders.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. We now have a fully functional site, both on the consumer side and customer side. Finally, how is the startup funded? What's the idea behind FavRav? How far is the product?

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? What's the User Interface Beyond the Web Site ? Tell me about the business. What’s different, special here?

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AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. How is the company funded?

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MARCH 26, 2014

I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We worked on all kinds of projects, including an online auction site for real estate, kiosks for airports, and music. Dan Rodrigues: Yes, we''ve raised around $70M in venture funding to date.

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MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. Why did your firm decide to find funding now? Our Chief Architect is from Scopus, an early CRM firm from the early 90's--he's a Silicon Valley, software, CTO type of guy.

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