socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Santa Monica-based Nimble , which develops contact management software-as-a-service, has linked up its tools with call center software developer Talkdesk. The integration includes automatic synchronization of contact data across the two software products, including emails, calls,chats, tickets, notes, and more.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contact management software, said today that it has linked its app into social media management service Hootsuite.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

DogVacay.com, the fastest-growing, Santa Monica startup, passionate about using technology to build a community where dog lovers can connect with one another to find and provide safe, convenient and affordable services to care for their best friend. Product Marketing Manager , TigerText. Senior IOS/Mobile Engineer , DogVacay.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the online, customer relationship management (CRM) tool developer, has tied with Simi Valley-based TeamAutomation , a business and IT consulting firm focused on customer relationship management tools. Financial details and business arrangement between the two companies was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com, told his personal email newsletter readers Friday that he has renamed the newsletter from JasonNation, to the LAUNCH Newsletter. As part of that effort, Calacanis has begun profiling startups in his newsletter, in a combined effort with a number of writers and editors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer contact management software headed by former Goldmine founder Jon Ferrara, said this week that it has been doubling its month over month revenue since launching its paid platform, and now has over 40,000 registered users.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. We're in Santa Monica, and sometime people think we're a venue or rental space for events, but what we are, is a 100 percent software company.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." Userplane was acquired by AOL in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Userplane Newsletter Santa Monica Email 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2019

They're already moving products from A to B, and we leverage the blank spaces on those trucks, by wrapping them with advertisements. So, I went to two companies, which were wlaking distance from me in my one bedroom apartment in Santa Monica. One was Santa Monica Brew Works, which was the first company I called on.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier. If someone loves your image of the Santa. all of that for more than a 100,000 members.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Mobile Roadie, headed by Michael Schneider , develops tools that make easy for non-programmers to create their own mobile apps.

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Awareness Years ago Upfront Ventures rented out a movie theater of 350 people in Santa Monica to screen the movie, “ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap ,” an important movie by Robin Hauser and we invited senior members of many local tech firms to attend. My response was swift, “No! You don’t get it. I want YOU to come.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. We''ll also fill in product descriptions, filling in the copy you see associated with products on those sites. We''ll also fill in product descriptions, filling in the copy you see associated with products on those sites.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. Email mfgorman@gmail.com if you’d like to demo your gadget, hardware, accessories, etc. SBF attendees should be able to attend for free or at a discount.

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com).

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. They are changing all the time, and we constantly have new products and partners, as our inventory churns and things are no longer available, or if they are seasonal in nature.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers. What is Geodelic's focus on nowadays?

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Mobile Santa Monica Startup Commerce 140

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is located in Santa Monica. Ben Satterfield: Burstly is the blanket company for three products. You get an email, tap on a link, a notification pops up, and the app installs on your phone. Our latest product is FlightPath, which is a mobile analytics solution. What is Burstly? It just made sense.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

He disclosed the struggles he went through in building a solid productive team. Being that the theme of the night was community, it was perfect that the event was held at CoLoft , a workspace in Santa Monica that focuses on start up entrepreneurs. His email list is everything. Some of you may be thinking, ‘Emails!

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

We were still very early stage--an idea on a napkin--and for the past year, we've been building out our product. We were then invited to join LaunchpadLA with Mark Suster, the accelerator in Santa Monica, and we also just raised funding in the last two months. We wanted to up the quality, versus quantity. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category. How long have you been at the firm now? Matt Edelman: It's been since April 1st.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

We invite you to the Second Annual Digital Family Reunion on Wednesday, December 2nd at Wokcano Restaurant in Santa Monica from 6-11pm. To enter to win a ticket to digiday:APPS, send your name, title, company, city, and email address to: info@socaltech.com with the subject "digiday tickets". Read more below for details.

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Fandango CarsDirect Case Study Santa Monica 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. Office space will be free and is in Santa Monica, walking distance to the Third Street Promenade. This education will continue.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. When you scan those codes, you're able to see a trailer on your handset, and get an email to download a deleted scene. Musicians are always looking for new things, for the best ways to promote themselves. READ MORE>>.

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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. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). Step 1 — create your CHNL account with a username, email and password. It was a big challenge to make our technology/product very simple and easy to use. However we have over 1000 NEW users with only an email from our staff to their friends and some contacts. What is CHNL?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

No, Seriously … Exactly six years ago today I received an email from my friend Ynon Kreiz introducing me to Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto. There initial release would be a product called “Best Fiends,” which is now one of the most successful mobile games. Some Seriously Great News. By “first” I mean?—?we

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News Mobile Santa Monica Coach 33

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We spoke with Matt Kumin , the company's founder and CEO--who was formerly an executive at Edmunds.com--to learn about the company's products. Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. What's your background, and what is PublishThis all about?

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Please email us reach@techzulu.com. Make sure to tune in! TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Partner with us!

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Neerg is an ecommerce store and community where consumers and merchants can "be and buy green" products and connect with like minded individuals. to 11:00 p.m. Price: FREE.

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

To solve that issue, Santa Monica-based TigerText (www.tigertext.com) has been developing smartphone applications which replace SMS, and provide companies with the ability to control, delete, encrypt, and otherwise gain control of the messaging between their employees. That''s what we''re devoted to.

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Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

I was with SAP America for about 7 years heading different roles such as consulting, product management, and sales. The idea here is that I was spending hours, hours, and more hours on trying to get content out to my customers through emails. Companies and professionals have a product or service they provide or support.

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Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92