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JANUARY 7, 2013

Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence).

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JUNE 27, 2013

It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology. As you probably know, two thirds of our investments go into Los Angeles. Unlike other funds, we don''t have multiple offices across the country, we''re just here in Los Angeles. Those are all categories we know well.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

For our interview today, we spoke with Darren Litt , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based MarketerHire , an online marketplace focused on connecting companies with marketing talent. 500 business, and number one in the media category. What is MarketerHire?

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Richard Wolpert is a well known investor in the Los Angeles technology community, through his own fund, Chance Technologies; as a Venture Partner at Amplify.LA So, what I did is I sat down and interviewed people like J.J. We caught up with Richard to learn more about the book and deal making. What's the book all about?

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JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. We curate the best products within each category of finance. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M What kind of financial products are you talking about?

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MAY 28, 2013

To bring that ability to name your own price on products, Los Angeles-based Greentoe (www.greentoe.com) recently launched, allowing consumers to name their own price to retailers of everything from electronics to baby products. We''re now in five categories, and we''re looking into computers and video games next. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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MARCH 23, 2015

While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. It’s easy to invest in today’s momentum categories.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

To try to figure out a better model to support great content, Los Angeles-based Tubestart (www.tubestart.com) recently launched a crowdfunding site, specifically aimed at digital video and YouTube creators. What''s Tubestart? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. OTHER DEALS: 1. Enterprise collaboration?

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2014

We spent our early days validating the hypothesis that Los Angeles is a good market for seed stage investments through MuckerLab. We made eleven small angel and seed investments during that time, but didn''t really publicize it that much. When we started doing MuckerLab, we were already doing both seed and pre-seed investments.

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. Eva Helene Yazhari: It''s a program for budding angel investors, and female angel investors.

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JUNE 11, 2013

June 19: TechZulu Penthouse at ROC: TechZulu will livestream interviews and provide a place to network. SBF Demo Day: More than a dozen curated LA startups will pitch at Cross Campus in categories including Accelerator, Startup 2.0, billion was invested in Southern California start-ups with 220 new companies launching in Los Angeles.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. People either love it our hate it.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

So he put up half the money to bring movie theaters to inner-city Los Angeles and showed that he could deliver profitable chains. Next week I’ll publish a 1-1 interview I did with Troy on Day 1 of the Upfront Summit.]. He sold for a huge gain. “The demographic shift is real and it’s valuable,” he said.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2014

One of Southern California''s big success stories -- from startup, to venture funding, and a recent IPO--is Los Angeles-based TrueCar , which had its IPO in May. There is no bigger category than automotive, and there''s no gnarlier problem than buying a car. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M 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. How does Giftagram work?

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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. They'll just keep getting it. What you really need, is an unsubscribe button.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. We provide primarily enterprise, category, point-, and sit in between the legacy guys and mobile guys.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

is based in Los Angeles. Sean Rad: It is targeted, and an advertiser can find a user based on a variety of parameters, ranging from the category that the publisher is in, and some analysis around their account. Tags: interview startup entrepreneur sean adly twitter advertising microblogging tweet. How does Ad.ly

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. More important piece of advice, especially in Los Angeles because capital markets here is tighter than the ones in the bay area. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter.

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MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. We use that same popularity algorithm for other categories. evan britton famousbirthdays niche internet traffic startup interview famous celebrity' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

One Los Angeles company-- OneStop Internet (www.onestop.com) has created a growing business handling exactly that. We provide all of the categories that need to be done if you want to sell products online, at least those that are non ticket and non travel, physical products. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. One of thing we did, is we became a MCN.

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MARCH 6, 2009

Sean McCleese: We have 600 categories, everything from music, to art, to science--it covers everything. Sean McCleese: I went to Occidental College in Los Angeles, and I was a physics major. Sean McCleese: We are based in Los Angeles, and we were started by friends in college, and have been very much bootstrapped until now.

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MAY 11, 2009

It's best for people who have research two, three, four, or maybe five different alternatives to a decision, such as choosing a college or a career path, or deciding if you'd like to move out of Los Angeles--decision where you already have a couple of alternatives, and need to figure out which one is best for you.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability. I ended up doing 4500 individual interviews, and quickly became a walking QuickBooks. When I was there, I was transferred toa project called Healthnet here in Los Angeles. We can see location information, payroll data, bank balances, and savings data.

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MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. As we continue to grow, we are adding more and more categories, all around being healthy, and making it easy for healthy choices to be easy choices. So, EcoMom took that concern out of the equation.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. It's in the automated translation category of the industry. What is NativeTung?

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JUNE 1, 2009

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Eden Jarrin, the President of Los Angeles-based eDivvy (www.edivvy.com). Really soon you'll see we'll be editorializing products and helping people to choose gifts in a category an dhow to pick the right gifts. Let's start with eDivvy. How did you end up here?

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JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Tags: entrepreneur ecommerce sale private fashion startup hautelook bernhard adam interview. It gives them a very good reading of the brand across the country.

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JULY 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix (www.acemetrix.com) launched its software-as-a-service, TV advertising rating service last month, and we spoke with the firm's CEO and co-founder, Steve Goldman, recently to learn more about the firm. Tags: software saas analytics content television advertising metrix startup interview.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Next → For one reason or another, people in this country tend to look down on LA.

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