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APRIL 24, 2019

That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in. 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. Shane Bernstein: We're an evidence-based, recruitment engine.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com), which develops web application firewall software, just inked a big, $35M series C funding round a few weeks ago, and now has plans to dramatically expand its hiring in Los Angeles. The easiest example is for an online banking system.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

According to Los Angeles-based FEM (fem-inc.com), video recommendations can make a significant difference in how long a user spends on a website or app. magazine, for example. How did you end up in Los Angeles? Rachel Payne: I''m originally from Los Angeles. The metrics are very solid.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Today, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) published its updated economic forecast for LA and the Southern California region. Written by Arman Tabatabai.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.”

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APRIL 15, 2016

Los Angeles-based Gatsby (www.thinkgatsby.com) has come up with a way to combine both ways to promote social sharing, as well as reduce shopping cart abandonment, via discounts which change depending on your social influence and sharing activity. For example, say you are shopping on a website like Helix Sleep.

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JUNE 1, 2012

That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. For example, Chris Louvion, the CTO of Citygrid, is one of our advisors, and Greg Kim of Savings.com is also an advisor.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. In that market, there are literally no ROI metrics. The best metrics are estimated impressions.

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JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. Food is the perfect example. We all went to Oakwood High School, in North Hollywood in Los Angeles. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. We now have teams in our headquarters in Los Angeles, and offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, and Bangalore.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

See Five Things Meme as an example. as an example. I regularly do wine tastings here in Los Angeles with some interesting folks I know. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

Metrics-Guided. These tidbits of advice certainly fell on attentive ears as we know entrepreneurs generally take real world examples and experiences to heart. Follow the links for more information on Coloft and Los Angeles Lean Startup Circle. Lean Approach. Model-Focused.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Last week, I attended an event hosted by The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup at Cross Campus in Santa Monica. He is the Content Strategist and CEO of FatDUX, headquartered in Copahagen, Denmark, a global company specializing in user experience with offices worldwide in Los Angeles, Budapest, Zagreb and Prague.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's a great example of a made-in-LA thing.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Leroy Hood, the well known DNA and genomics pioneer�which combines gene sequencing with a host of other diagnostic tests, with personalized counselors and health and wellness recommendations, recently launched an expansion into California, starting in Los Angeles. Arivale is based in Seattle. What is Arivale?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. More important piece of advice, especially in Los Angeles because capital markets here is tighter than the ones in the bay area. We are actually hitting numbers that we promised to hit. Thanks Matt for your time.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

For example, with photos, two years ago it was enough to enable users to actively share photos with friends online. For example, Foursquare has added a points system to its location-tracking service, enabling friends to compete for who visits more and better locations, while at the same time alerting users when their friends are nearby.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. Medium and long term, I am excited to see how this involves into a true sport, bigger on every scale and metric than the NBA or NFL. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. An example of the systems companies build are pricing & revenue management tools to best help to optimize yield.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JANUARY 7, 2009

posted by Winny Ho AeA LA Council Executive Committee 2009 Marketing Chair Winny Ho recently accepted the position of Executive Committee Marketing Chair for the AeA Los Angeles Council. Look at Oprah: she’s successfully lost and kept off 80 lbs…oops, scratch that example. It’s hard to change…almost impossible.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Los Angeles-based exactly.me (www.exactly.me) is hoping to change that, with an app that connects you with other like minded individuals, based on your reaction to photos. So, for example, I might say, hey, I see you're into snow skiing, thought I'd catch up with you, maybe we can meet up at Mammoth sometime next weekend.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. They've got some nice metrics behind them. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

We narrowed it down to key-metrics. So if you are looking for a cast for example, competitors would use dozens of parameters that wouldn’t really help anybody find the right cast. Los Angeles is going to be our home base. Also, mainly the entertainment focus side of Los Angeles is something you can’t dismiss.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Earlier this week we had the opportunity to sit in at The General Assembly, Los Angeles for a fully stacked panel on a Day in the Life of a Product Manager (PM). For example? He continues with an example where they’d spent a lot of effort on implementing tracking on every portion of a product.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency. You want to be able to target these buckets--for example, an advertiser like Warner Brothers might want to promote their Batman film and show a trailer to a user that fits a certain profile.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency. You want to be able to target these buckets--for example, an advertiser like Warner Brothers might want to promote their Batman film and show a trailer to a user that fits a certain profile.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. I was originally introduced to them as a great example of a great example of a double-bottom company, who’ve been able to do social good in the clean-tech field without the need to lean on the clean-tech name.

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APRIL 14, 2014

That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. A really good example is a product that is sold offline, where the marketing is done online. The second problem is an attribution problem. With big data and all these big craze big data has come out there.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

For example it includes the following kinds of things that a CTO should be addressing, but that may not be part of the expectation, time allocation, etc. What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? What specific technical innovations might make sense?

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