socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based uSamp , the market research and sampling technology developer, says that it is in an expansion in Europe, and has opened up an office in Frankfurt, Germany. The company said it has named Susanne Minneker as account director, uSamp Germany, and Catherine Gibbon, senior marketing manager for uSamp Europe.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Carlsbad-based DNAe says it has developed a new, diagnostic platform that uses semiconductor DMA to help in treating antimicrobial resistant infections. government to developing DNA sequencing technology to help physicians by providing rapid diagnosis of antimicrobial resistant infections and influenza. million contract with the U.S.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Los Angeles-based Instantly , the provider of market research and sampling tools, said it has upgraded its offerings, adding a number of key updates to its tools. According to Instantly, it is now offering up unrestricted access to its Instantly Automated Sample tool, which lets businesses target specific consumer for their research.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Los Angeles-based survey and sampling provider uSamp said this morning that it has renamed the company to Instantly. The company develops a sample service which connect researchers and marketers with consumers for consumer surveys, in addition to related tools. instantly usamp survey sampling rename research consumer'

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2013

Encino-based survey and sampling technology developer uSamp announced this morning that it has expanded its Consumer Insights division through the hiring of a new Senior Director of Insights and Strategy. uSamp said it has hired Robert Clancy, a veteran of such companies as Diageo, JCPenney, Blockbuster and PepsiCo, to the position.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

La Jolla-based molecular dermatology treatment developer DermTech announced this morning that its Canadian subsidiary, DermTech Canada, has received approval from Health Canada to market its Pigmented Lesions Assay (PLA) and non-invasive biopsy kit for the detection of melanoma in Canada.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Irvine-based Airthinx , a developer of air quality monitoring devices, is tackling the home market with new integration with Nest, Ecobee, and others, the company said this morning. The company had initially been marketing the device to the professional and enterprise market. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2013

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies has acquired laboratory automation and instrument developer CETAC Technologies , the company annoucned this morning. CETA, which was headquartered in Omaha, Nebrasca, designs and manufactures automated sample handling and sample introduction equipment for the laboratory instrumentation market.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2010

Encino-based uSamp , the online market research and sampling firm founded by former goZing founders Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding. uSamp's online platform is used to manage online polling and sampling for clients. uSamp was formerly known as United Sample.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Carlsbad-based MaxLinear , which develops radio frequency and mixed signal semiconductors, said this morning that it has launched a new product aimed at the long haul optical network market. The company said the new device is sampling now, and will be in production in Q4 of 2016. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2016

Irvine-based RF semiconductor developer RFaxis is expanding its product lineup this morning, saying it has added a number of RF front ends for the Internet-of-Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market. The company says the new product will sample in Q1. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner. Biomatrica manufactures and sells tools for preserving biological samples.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based Instantly , which develops automated sampling and market research tools, said Tuesday that it has named Jim Collins as its Executive Vice President of Instantly Audiences.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. This will prove your product is worth building to you and to the developer. Ask for is code samples.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The global meat substitute market was valued at $4.51 Growing up with a father who was a food marketer, Boyd Myers said she saw firsthand what eating a diet of fast-food can do to a person and was always looking for more healthy food options that also had a positive benefit for the planet. AKUA co-founder and CEO Courtney Boyd Myers.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Genalyte, a biomedical diagnostics company that has maintained a low profile in San Diego while raising almost $92 million, is getting ready to debut technology that targets a market long dominated by centralized lab services providers. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

Rex Direct Net is a performance marketing firm providing affiliate marketing, online lead generation and market research sampling. Tags: ringrevenue callwave rexdirect affiliate marketing call telephone. Financial details of the win were not nanounced. The firm's founders were previously at Callwave. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2020

Consumers now have their first chance to sample the wares of a short-form streaming service — and it’s not Quibi. Shows on the platform at launch include a gameplay-focused series built around the augmented reality game, Ingress , developed by Niantic , the game studio behind the massive AR hit Pokemon Go.

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MARCH 28, 2012

Los Angeles-based NantWorks , the business investment and development firm run by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, has invested $30M in Strand Diagnostics , a developer of a diagnostic and DNA testing service for diagnosing cancer. Strand Diagnostics is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime? Applying that solution to our job matching site made perfect sense.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

Consumers who aren’t squeamish about spitting into a tube and sending it to a lab can now have 23andMe test those samples to assess their risk of developing Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and eight other disorders. The FDA says its marketing authorization for 23andMe is the first covering any direct-to-consumer genetic tests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

” Through this window into the market, Chen knew that there was a way to circumvent the time-consuming process of booking a doctor’s visit to get a test scheduled and performed. For Scanwell, it’s the culmination of a three-year journey to bring their first diagnostic test to market.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2009

Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor , a developer of chips for the networking market, announced Tuesday that it has rolled out a new chipset targeted at the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) market. Vitesse said its new chipset is sampling today, with a reference design evaluation board to be released in Q2.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

market, and offer digital video broadcast (DVB) standards, decoding of compressed video streams, Ethernet connectivity, and embedded 3D graphics cores. Broadcom said the new ICs are now sampling to early access customers. Irvine-based Broadcom announced a new line of digital television chips, which the firm said will focus on the U.S.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

As far as technology goes, sure, I’ll be using my knowledge and skills to develop a business around technology and the process of producing our product uses some rather savvy science, so its not as big of a stretch as it might appear. I also manage product development, business development and of course, IT.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Organovo unveiled its plans to develop “therapeutic” tissue after showing in preclinical animal studies that bio-printed liver patches successfully grafted, formed blood vessels, and functioned normally, according to a statement today. These initial areas encompass a $3 billion market opportunity, the company said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

Whoever wins, these are some of the local firms in interesting markets--and their tough, well-backed head-to-head competition--worth watching. HauteLook, one of the first firms to capitalize on the sample/private sales market, is already profitable and is growing rapidly. DocStoc vs. Scribd. DocStoc - Profile. Funding: $50.0M.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a product or service you can often trade short exclusivity periods for the retailer’s willingness to spend marketing dollars promoting your product or give you better merchandising in the physical or virtual store. It is on this last point where Amazon is best positioned to dominate markets. So Why Does This Matter?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the startups in that area--born out of a.NET development organization here in Los Angeles--is FatCloud (www.fatcloud.com), which develops a NoSQL database which ties directly into Microsoft''s SQL Server database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Corey Weiss , IPSY's Head of Business Development, is based in Santa Monica, and helps to run that effort. Our core business is around a glam bag program, a monthly subscription which costs $10 a month, which delivers a themed,curatated makeup bag containing five full size or deluxe samples from top beauty brands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the speed of change and volume of market feedback today, as well as the advances in machine learning, Amazon, Alibaba, and others have proven the value of software driven strategy decisions. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes. The efficiency gain is tremendous.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Michael Dubin: My background is digital marketing, and a little bit of editorial. After that, I went to a digital marketing for a firm which provided marketing for Sports Illustrated and other big brand advertisers like Gatorade and Nike, driving video views of social video. How do you expect to win consumers over?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

For today's interview, we thought it would be worth visiting with Carey Ransom , CEO of Irvine-based RealPractice (www.realpractice.com), a firm which develops legal-based software products. Carey Ransom: We see that the number one, fastest growing segment of the legal market is the small, solo firm. It's all delivered over the web.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

We're focused on the youth market, teens primarily. We provide a whole bunch of sample services that it might be appropriate for teens to do, or they can create their own, or they can offer things to sell. Rudy DeFelice: It's a little bit of both, although most of the marketing happens online. What exactly is Kidworth?

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