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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the on-demand, tech support company co-founded by Richard Wolpert, announced this morning that it has named Ted Hong as President of the company. According to HelloTech, Hong will ofersee finance, marketing, operations, product development, and technology operations for the company.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JANUARY 28, 2013

Most high tech executives in Southern California might not be aware that Newegg , the online electronics and technology products retailer, is based here in the City of Industry. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2012

In our Insights and Opinions section this morning, we turn again to angel investor Dave Berkus , who tells entrepreneurs: Fail fast. Professional investors want to live by this rule. With the first round of funding, there should be milestones to be achieved.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Think Glendale.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We were building about 300 to 400 products a year for other people, including tons of apps, for tons of startups, and were managing tens of millions of marketing spend for those clients every month. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. It started to feel like the Matrix to me.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

Last month, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti created a new program, aimed at growing, assisting and sustaining entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. The new "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" program has appointed its first, two, EIRs--Krisztina "Z" Holly and Amir Tehrani.--both Also, the U.S. Also, the U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. Winston Damarillo: When we launched the product, it was just about when Amazon started.

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APRIL 12, 2011

That might be virtual goods, or monthly subscriptions to services like handbags, shoes, baby products, children's products, anything. What is being valued, is a team that can create products, and a consumer experience. We'll benefit from Riot Games, which will further support the ecosystem of angels and entrepreneurs.

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APRIL 26, 2017

What really separated us, was not the microscope, but how we very quickly sold out of our first three production runs of our microscope. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com). Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. One is Love It, and that's where they are paid for making a product recommendation.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Those were companies like Maker Studios, disrupting the traditional production of content. It's the same way that both investors and entrepreneurs used to think about New York with financial technology or advertising, because of the relationship to Madison Avenue and Wall Street. Those areas were reflective of the LA startup economy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. At Archer we are focused on working with southern California's best entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to build disruptive new businesses.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

What really separated us, was not the microscope, but how we very quickly sold out of our first three production runs of our microscope. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur?

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. If you look at the other players, I believe, on-demand tutors will never exist. We have product, people, and have our foundation set.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them. Historically, ThisNext has always been the umbrella brand to help people shop for product they are interested in, across multiple verticals. Traditionally, that has been products in fashion/beauty, home/garden, sports/outdoors, and parenting and green.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. On Demand). You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, I've learned a lot, and my partner Paul has through our companies, and as a result, a lot of mistakes you make as an entrepreneur, we're not going to make.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: Our lead product is a white label, daily deal product. It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. It ended up becoming our breakout product. What is Deal Current?

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Our vision is really to become the premier provider of on-demand home services.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A large bank started using us, with 18,000 employees in Australia, and the next thing we new we were delivering the product to the the U.S. We've been flirting with profitability all year, and are approaching $3M in ARR, but we also want to scale and build up our business, our product acceleration, and continue our client success.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. NastyGal -- which was just about unheard of a year ago -- has rocketed to a over $100M business, driven by women's clothing, shoes, and other products. The now-public. Edmunds was also one of the companies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Greg Cohn , who brought us up to speed on what Burner is about, and the story behind the app. The example is a venture capitalist who might want to take calls from entrepreneurs, or a celebrity or someone who might be an expert in a field, like law or accounting. Let's talk first about your app.

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. One of the unique benefits from the product context, is that as you type, you''re able to find your product faster. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The attractive by-product is that I am reading more and working out more. I continue to be surprised by some clever SoCal entrepreneurs who are creating out-of-the box companies that are opportunistic and reflect our markets ingenuity. Overall I am optimistic for 2018. This is the natural maturation in these segments.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. The demand is there. Coli, they become Chipotle.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

We talked with CEO Marcus Filipovich to learn more about the company and its product. Judges, juries, defense, and prosecuters are now expecting and demanding video be produced in the courtroom. Marcus Filipovich: Our other founder, Ron Waldorf, is a serial entrepreneur, primarily in the medical business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. That allows us to not only be razor-focused on the product, and to prove out the product, but it also forced us to be very disciplined in running the business for profit.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Later, when I was in the tax business at Intuit and H&R Block, running those businesses, every year we had to hire a couple hundred tax professionals, who had to unwind the tax code, and who had to write it all down to give again to developers, in order for them to interpret and provide a usable product to consumers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Alex Nocifera: We help the enterprise, large brands, working with brands like US Cellular, Panera Bread, Square, Uber, and help them generate demand for their products and services in a local, acute manner. What is Field Day? To get back to the question, the investors were quite supportive. operating plan adjustment.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. However, we are both entrepreneurs, and needed to build and do something positive. So where is the product today?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. The deal was at the end of April, but it wasn't announced until the end of July, when Illumina wanted to announce the launch of their product.

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