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JULY 1, 2013

VIMBY , the Los Angeles-based, online production studio created by Mark Burnett, is powering a new entrepreneurship competition from Walmart, the Get On The Shelf crowdsourcing competition. Walmart said that it will select up to 20 product finalists who will be featured in that original, weekly web series. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Are you the sort of person who relies on your friends to help you figure out the best places to explore on the web? That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. I'm a person that loves discovering new stuff on the web.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. 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. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. 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. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Technology.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Technology.

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MAY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project is significantly boosting its executive ranks today, saying that it has named a new CTO, General Counsel, and SVP of Product Management to the firm. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Recently, we ran into Edo Cohen , CEO of Los Angeles-based Seevolution (www.seevolution.com), a firm developing web site heat map tracking software. Edo Cohen: Seevolution is a real time analytics and heat map company for web sites and web applications. How long has the product been available? What's your background?

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APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. Are people using the product now? What kind of data are you gathering?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It's a new world out there for online marketers--users aren't just on their PC anymore, they're surfing the web, buying products, and using services across their tablet(s), desktops, and smartphone. So, how do marketers figure out if you're the same person to better target their ads?

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. That's where our initial database of products is coming from. We're doing really extensive research on what consumers might want on the PC web. What was behind that decision?

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MAY 30, 2012

If you're a startup business owner, how do you get to the next step, and build your first product? That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage.

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JULY 24, 2014

Nikolaus Kimla: We started to promote the product, and saw immediately that it was rocking around the world. What kinds of customers use your product? Nikolaus Kimla: We have business in a lot of countries using our product. So, we have a core team of dedicated people working on the product, which is the most important part.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are? We give it to our own kids.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). Andrew Humphries: There are four key things that we are doing.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. It''s really a combination of the two.

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MAY 7, 2018

Even though my family was reasonably more advanced, they were using a system which was still running on DOS, in black and blue, and was not even web-based. We love Omar, our partner at Sequoia, who is an entrepreneur himself, and sold his last company to Google for $700M. He's a very sharp entrepreneur, and shares the same vision.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The idea came about, because we see a lot of people coming through our program at UCLA, who might have the desire to be an entrepreneur, and to get into the technology field, by studying data science or cybersecurity. At the same time, we're trying to help add women and diversity to technology and entrepreneurship. million unfilled jobs.

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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. 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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AUGUST 5, 2014

The startups included SideVision , an ecommerce software platform; Portal Entertainment a content development company; Bubbl , a developer of mobile and web-based video editing tools; Wisemetrics , social content publishing; Incoming Media , push notification for video; and Toggle , a developer of HDMI dongles for streaming UltraViolet content.

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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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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based Chromatik , which is developing a web-based, music learning products, took the top honors at the Twiistup Showoff event Thursday night. Chromatik's product is still in alpha mode. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. 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.

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JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. 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.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Brian Mac Mahon is a serial entrepreneur and investor and has owned companies in over 35 countries. Their patented 12 step accelerator is unlike any other program available and gives direct access to specialists in branding, design, business planning, product fit, strategic planning, web development, growth hacking and so much more.

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JUNE 30, 2010

We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. We've taken the video editing process from a silo event, where someone uploads content, edits it on their computer, by themselves--to something we've exploded across the social web, which allows people to collaborate and work together on content.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. What kind of insurance are you offering now through those apps and the web?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 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. The biggest news was a complete, new launch of a new product, strategy and brand. Yesterday, we heard from Bruce Hallett of Miramar Venture Partners.

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JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. What that means, is we provide both content classification for web sites--which enables web filtering--but also website reputation management. You'd mentioned you had some investors?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. What we have done, is built this to centralize those existing communities, and to make them more productive. What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far as an entrepreneur?

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JULY 5, 2011

However, once you build the trust and goodwill of your users, and buzz grows around the web, it becomes much easier. From our perspective, you can't have a consumer engage with the product every day if you're not going to deliver on the promises you say you are going to provide. million members to engage with their product.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. He created one of the first industrial R&D labs, and hired and brought in a bunch of investors to help iterate, and experiment, and build new products.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Secondly, it's critical that we see the future of entertainment as being on the web, versus at the movie theater.

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Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. In our first year in businss, we had $1.7

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

Their "Drive To" product provides a web-based navigator, which require no download, and we saw that there were lots of things we could do together to target the right person, at the right time, using a web-based GPS. What advice would you give to other entrepreneurs, and which you learned from the whole experience?

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JUNE 2, 2017

We saw the pains of supporting apps in a live, production environments. More importantly, the tools that already exist on the web, just don't exist on mobile. It's a high touch product right now, and we are in B2B. Eric Futoran: The biggest lesson, which I teach to other entrepreneurs, is don't assume anything.

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