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MARCH 27, 2009

Email us at info@socaltech.com. Startups Made Simple. startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Vmware and more. socalTECH readers. 50% registration discount for friends of socalTECH. Tags: socaltech advertising sponsor. April 24, 2009.

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JULY 24, 2012

For one Los Angeles startup, help kids and teenagers create their own businesses and companies. Kidworth said today that it is aiming at helping create over one million, young entrepeneurs, by providing a way for teens and kids to start simple businesses.

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JULY 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Teeology , the latest startup backed by tech entrepreneur Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), has started signing up users today, telling people via email and Twitter that they can now sign up for the service. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

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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. We spoke with Bryce Maddock , founder of TaskUs, about the company and how it has been providing the manpower behind a lot of LA''s technology startups. So, what is TaskUs?

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JULY 28, 2015

Starting with just 4,000 circulation in 2009, BERKONOMICS has grown to well over 100,000, and is read on five continents by an audience that is 45% female. September 21st, 2015 marks the sixth anniversary of publication for BERKONOMICS , the blog containing insights for business management, entrepreneurs, and investors.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based Boulevard , a startup offering up software to help salons and spas manage their business, have raised $11M in its Series A funding round, the company said today. The funding was led by Index Ventures and Bonfire Ventures. Boulevard was foudned by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos.

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MAY 22, 2019

For our interview this morning, we talked with David Wood , the Founder and CEO of Eventene (www.eventene.com), an early stage startup, bootstrapped startup developing event management software. David--a veteran of Microsoft, having been the lead developer of Microsoft Exchange--tells us why he started his company.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Citygrid did not respond to emails for comment yesterday from socalTECH, however, TechCrunch is placing the size of the cuts at 15 percent of the company. Initial news of the cuts, which were made in the last couple of days, came through recruiters and others close to the company. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based Sunbit , a fintech startup which provides point-of-sale financing for purchases, using machine learning to qualify consumers, has raised $26M in a Series B funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Zeev Ventures, and also included Group 11 (formerly SGVC), Chicago Ventures, and others. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management software, said today that it has launched a program for startups, which will offer up a free year of its service. The company said the effort is part of an effort to both support the startup community--as well as connect with future integration partners. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based micro-mobility and scooter provider Bird said this morning that it will be offering up free rides to teachers to start off the school year, providing them with up to two, free, 30-minute rides per day until the end of September. Bird said teachers can join the program by emailing together@bird.co

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Los Angeles-based Docstoc , an online document and sharing startup, said Wednesday that it has added email uploading and publishing to the service. The firm said that any document can be uploaded to the firm via email, and it will automatically be published publically on the site. READ MORE>>

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JANUARY 2, 2013

For this year's first article, we share the advice of Tony Karrer , Founder and CTO of TechEmpower , Founder and CTO of Aggregage and organizer of the LA CTO Forum and Startup Specialist Network , two local groups focused on startups. Then we discussed how they could go about finding this startup business advisor. .

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JULY 3, 2014

However, Businessweek reports that the startup story behind Tinder is actually all a myth, conveniently created after Tinder was created inside IAC. The report claims that CEO Sean Rad and Mateen were "off in their own world" in manufacturing the startup creation myth of Tinder. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2012

Los Angeles startup accelerator StartEngine has launched its third class, a new batch of fourteen startups which have set up shop in the incubator's Westwood Village space under the watchful eyes of Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Entrepreneur's list included the Southern California startups across a number of areas -- tech, apps, travel, geek chic, invention, retail, social media, and music/art.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Constance Curtis , the Founder and CEO of The List (www.getthelistapp.com), thinks so, and tells us about her startup's efforts to bring the world of matchmaking to the modern worldand how her own frustration with online dating let to her startup. With matchmaking, you hire someone to do everything for you, setting you up for dates.

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MARCH 7, 2017

SendGrid , which provides email delivery services for companies for their transactional emails, and which has a big Orange County office, announced today that it has acquired email marketing automation startup Bizzy. Bizzy develops email marketing automation software aimed at small-to-medium sized companies.

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MAY 2, 2017

He was just trying to collect more data for his startup on what was happening on real estate deals that the company had been referring to brokers. However, starting in 2015, we found that creating this was really hard. So, what I did was pick up the phone, and start talking to those agents. It worked well.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Venice, California-based Thankful, a new artificial intelligence software startup focused on customer service, announced this morning that it has raised $12M in its Series A funding round. The startup is led by CEO Ted Mico. The company says its customers include Crate & Barrel, FabFitFun, MeUndies, Morphe, and Bombas.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? What is GreenRope all about? Can you give an example of the functions you are talking about?

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AUGUST 28, 2017

CEO Costin Tuculescu said in an email that "We don't have anything to announce at this time." AnyMeeting offers up an online service which lets users run webinars, run online meetings, share screens and slides, and much more. AnyMeeting got its start as Freebinar.

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AUGUST 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based online backup provider IDrive , in an attempt to sign up students returning to school, said this week that it has launched a 50 percent discount plan, good for students for the lifetime of their account. IDrive offers up both file storage and synchronization services, starting with a 5GB free account.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Jeff Lee , a senior associate at San Diego- and Los Angeles-based Mission Ventures , has quietly left the firm to head up a newly founded, stealth startup, according to Lee's LinkedIn profiles and bounced emails to his Mission Ventures address. Lee has not yet announced what he his new startup is up to.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. Tell us the story behind how the firm started? We raised $2.1M They'll just keep getting it.

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JULY 20, 2018

Venice-based, last-mile scooter transportation company Bird has rolled out a brand new program which will offer up discounted rates to low income users, saying it will eliminate its $1 base fee per ride for anyone who qualifies for a state or federal assistance program. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We have them add their name, email address, and input the percent amount. How did you start the company?

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MARCH 14, 2011

Beware emails seeking donations for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster, Internet security firm Norton reported Monday. Norton reported that spammers have already started to try to take advantage of the outpouring of support for the victims in Japan, pleading for donations. earthquake.

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MAY 26, 2011

The first outgrowth of relationship between Los Angeles-based Goldstar and LA entrepreneur Matt Coffin appears to have surfaced in an email promotion to Goldstar members, inviting Goldstar members to join FamilyFinds , the family-focused, daily deals site started by Coffin. Coffin was the founder of LowerMyBills.com. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2016

Offers now will come in via FAX machine, and if people are interested, you might have 50 people emailing you, which you might stuff into a CRM system somewhere. That's a big contrast to how it is done now, which is by pen and paper, phone, email, and fax. How did you guys�from such different industries--end up coming together on this?

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Businesses were hooking up their PCs with things like Novell.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

we spoke with co-founder Chuka Ikokwu to learn more about the startup and how it's helping companies to recruit more diverse workers. Companies can get on the platform and set up a company profile, and post jobs, and source candidates for those jobs. How long have you been offering up this service? Describe what Divercity.io

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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. Personally, my work has shifted 80 percent to my mobile device for work communication, text, email and reading. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Cloud-based email delivery startup SendGrid , one of the companies out of the TechStars accelerator, said this week that it is accelerating hiring at the firm, including at the firm's Anaheim location. SendGrid is based in Boulder, Colorado. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com). TX Zhuo: I started my own business out of college, an e-commerce company. TX Zhuo: Someone on our team will try to respond to every email.

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