TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Green has spent her career bankrolling the companies that define what’s cool, including Glossier, Outdoor Voices and Away, whose founders are often cited as the archetypal examples of “girlbosses.”. “I The term itself, though, hasn’t aged nearly as well as Green’s portfolio. Early this year, the company slashed staff yet again.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Our interview this morning is with Alex Nocifera of Los Angeles-based Field Day. If they are trying to acquire audiences and attention, for example, on the Westwide of Los Angeles or West Village, New York, we go after very acute areas and try to drive more grass root efforts, but doing it in a programmatic fashion.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). Many VCs simply wait for referrals to come to them via email or introductions they get at conferences or demo days. ocean views!)

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MAY 22, 2019

For example, if they're using Signupgenius, or Evite, then we're not trying to convert them. We're really going after 70 percent of people who are using just spreadsheets, email, and maybe using some sort of online survey tool. How did you end up here in Los Angeles if you had working up in Redmond for Microsoft?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Zenvoy (www.zenvoy.com) is looking to change that, with a service that helps match professionals with one-on-one networking. I actually graduated from grad school, and came back to Los Angeles. For example, they might decide to introduce people who are left handed and like the color blue.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. Some practical examples. Todd Gitlin is one of the best executive recruiters the technology & startup market in Los Angeles. Lots of asking.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. For example, MuckerLab, had 100 percent of their companies funded out of their most recent class. TX Zhuo: Someone on our team will try to respond to every email.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles.

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JULY 30, 2012

He's now head of Los Angeles-based Zumbox (www.zumbox.com). How are you acquiring customers, and why wouldn't they just have someone send them their bill by email? Email lis oppose of what our system is. Email lis the oppose, you have an open system, with unknown senders, spam, and unverified recipients.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. years there has been an initiative in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA. He previously co-founded Charlie , a Los Angeles based media company and interactive agency. For the past 2.5

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. The concept behind Bccthis is sending a private message within a group email and group message.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

For example, he explained a situation where his company could not meet payroll the next day and was about to go out of business. Marks continued to talk about his past and then talked about the startup landscape in Los Angeles. What is your vision for the startup landscape in Los Angeles over the next several years?

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JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Marc Mitchell: I grew up here in Los Angeles, and I have always been involved in media and entertainment, After Los Angeles, I went to Stanford during the first tech boom. We did that through email, and eventually mobile. One of those that is live now is with Toys R Us, for example. I was COO of UrbanDaddy.

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JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Los Angeles-based SnapCuts (www.snapcuts.com) does just that, allow users to tap into a wide collection of clips, which can be re-mixed, combined with text, and sent to your friends.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. Finally, for entrepreneurs, what's the best way to approach you--email, Twitter, Facebook?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. how do you compete?

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APRIL 18, 2014

So, we were surprised to learn about the backing that Los Angeles-based mobile app provider TRUCKAST (www.truckast.com) has from investor Gary Winnick (who co-founded Global Crossing). When you think about hot sectors for startups, the construction industry is not typically the first place you''d expect.

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JUNE 14, 2018

The solution: Los Angeles-based Earny (www.earny.co), which has created a service which automatically submits for those refunds and price adjustments for you. For example, you might purchase a TV from Amazon, and pay $1000, and the price drops to $800 a few weeks later, and we make sure you receive $200 back. What's Earny?

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JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Zumbox was essentially the USPS online, where we had networked street addresses so that email cloud flow online the same way as it did offline. It just snowballed from there.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, Los Angeles-based Postcard On The Run (www.postcardontherun.com) is trying to recapture that sense of value of physical photographs, with its new service, which turns digital photos into postcards. An example might be Facegoo, which allows you to send funny emails to friends, send out a tweet, or add a picture to Facebook.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M They wanted to lead our round, so we relocated to Los Angeles. in a seed funding round.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) published its updated economic forecast for LA and the Southern California region. If I can ever be of assistance, hit reply, or send an email to danny@techcrunch.com. Quality tech news from around the web. Written by Arman Tabatabai.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. It's nice chatting with you again about your company--you're here in Los Angeles, aren't you? Can you give a concrete example of how that might work?

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). The results?

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APRIL 22, 2016

All you need is a mobile number or email address, and when you send a Giftagram, they get a notification and a unique landing page, where they can enter their preferred delivery address. Can you give us an example of what you mean by a curated gift? So, from a market perspective, we think it fits really well.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

One way is to automate the process, which is what Los Angeles-based CallFire has been helping its business customers with. An example of this is a famous sports team, which uses us to put phone numbers on billboards. To manage all of that complexity takes time, takes data collection, and it takes a sophisticated platform.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

To prove that point, tonight I had the privilege of hearing him speak at Lean LA , a Los Angeles group that helps high tech start-ups build great companies on a budget. And he showed us examples how implementing his team’s innovations directly sky rocketed company sales. His email list is everything.

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JUNE 11, 2012

We started in Los Angeles, and spent time in LA understanding how venues get signed up, how to cater to their needs, and how to get people signed up. I think it could be as simple as an email to let them know when people have booked, negotiations within that, and book it online. How are you handling that? READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. It makes Los Angeles traffic look like a walk in the park.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. So the way I would do it is to find examples of specific startups that have grown up locally and who marketed similar to how you plan to market. I suggested that they should look for someone like me, but on the business end.

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JUNE 19, 2013

You get an email, tap on a link, a notification pops up, and the app installs on your phone. For example, if you''re just a major crash on an iPad in Japan. In that example, we can let you know you''re seeing iPad mini crashes in Japan, and start tracking those. We''re now both Android and iOS. It just made sense.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. It was founded by Paul Sidlo, who is from Los Angeles, and it''s very much a Southern California company. For example, gluten free items.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

When it's all about trading, swapping, lucky finds, and more--explains Dan Murillo , who is CEO and Founder of Little Black Bag (www.littleblackbag.com), an online e-commerce community based in Los Angeles. Dan Murillo: The trading feels very much like a game. Very simply, you find a product you like, and offer a product you own.

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MARCH 26, 2012

The Los Angeles startup is looking to help connect travelers with local guides and hosts. We verify email addresses, college and work email addresses, and required a referral from someone in the community. Have you ever traveled to a foreign country, and wish you had a local friend who could show you around?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based Bridg (www.bridg.com), led by CEO and founder Amit Jain , has created a solution which it's been offering to those offline retailers for several years now. We've more than doubled our revenue growth, and we now have close to 50 employees here in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco.

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