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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 There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. AIs continued growth is something I will be keeping my eye on in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , founded by former dMarc founders Ryan and Chad Steelberg , said Monday that it has acquired La Jolla-based Beeyla , a developer of virtual sports collectibles. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Brand Affinity Technologies said the buy will extend its portfolio of endorsement offerings.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

eSolar, the solar thermal utility plant developer started by Idealab's Bill Gross, has a sizeable chunk of capital and notable support of Google and others, not to mention a number of contracts with utilities. Backers: ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, The Quercus Trust of California.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. They have a day job, running the existing business, and they then have to commit more time and effort into building Dentistry.com, to develop the technology, processes, and all we have to do. We are working with a team in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Pasadena-based solar thermal technology developer eSolar has inked a deal with another clean technology firm, Sundrop Fuels, the company announced today. Exact details on the size of the contract were not provided. eSolar is venture backed by Google, Idealab, and Oak Investment Partners. READ MORE>>

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. For starters, as Josh Kopelman outlined in this excellent post on their Dorm Room Fund , many great innovations including Microsoft, Google & Facebook started in a dorm room. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on.

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MARCH 26, 2014

We also have a cloud-baesd, billing and practice management solutions, which enables them to manage all of their internal financial processes, and we also have solutions for billing and cloud-based outsourcing of back office tasks. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different?

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JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. Can you talk about the application and how this is different or better than similar efforts like Google Gears, etc? What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is?

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MARCH 12, 2013

Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. The development community and web developers, who tend to be our customers, like that flexibility, and the quick time to market.

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APRIL 27, 2015

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. People are so used to the Google mold. What is Scour? We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

Companies here are really held accountable to what is in the contract, and how their products are implemented. You get enterprise apps, like you might buy an app on Google Play or Apple iTunes or Amazon. For us, it's been much easier to keep expanding our market share in the government, that it took to initially crack it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. NAME Google. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. A substantial portion of Venices real-estate boom is attributable to Google.

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