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MAY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Crowdfunder , an online crowd funding site headed by Chance Barnett, has raised $400,000 in seed funding, according to reports today. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. This technology allows us to see what is hot.

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APRIL 24, 2019

That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in. The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com).

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JUNE 29, 2011

Los Angeles-based Payoff.com , a new startup led by Scott Saunders, said Tuesday that it has officially launched its free, social finance site. Payoff.com's web site centers around sharing dreams and saving goals with others, and earning special badges for reaching steps along the way to those goals.

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JULY 10, 2012

A Los Angeles-based startup, Zugara , is looking to overcome that with a softwar eproduct which allows users to virtually try on outfits using augmented reality. The startup said today that it has launched a module for e-commerce platform PrestaShop. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

A California-based medical startup that provides COVID-19 testing across Los Angeles has pulled down a website it used to allow customers to access their test results after a customer found a vulnerability that allowed access to other people’s personal information.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com) has figured out one way--which is to connect those mobile users with ads from app developers, who have the opposite problem of trying to boost their user base. I sold a couple of businesses, and ended up running the mobile gaming part of Scopely. What is Kixer? What''s your background?

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internships.com said this morning that it has launched a new web site focused on helping college students to connect with internship opportunities. Tags: internship student college startup robin richards. The firm--the newest venture headed by Robin D. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based Border Stylo , a new startup headed by Oscar Guido, said today that it has launched a new software add-on called "Glass", focused on sharing of web content. The company said the product allows users to share real-time chat, comments, links, and more on any web site.

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MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Zeevo Group , a new startup aiming at providing operations support to the aircraft leasing industry, has launched, and is looking at LA as one of its first locations. The company has initially set up operations in Seattle, but says on its web site that it is in the midst of setting up a Los Angeles location.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based food alternative developer Soylent has rolled out a new chatbot, called "Trish", and started accepting Bitcoin from its customers. In related news, Soylent says it has opened up a Bitcoin store called Soy Route on the "Dark Web", which it says is a nod to it's core community.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Evite , the online invitations business which is a unit of IAC, said today that it has launched an extensive redesign of the firm's website. The site said that--after 10 years on its old platform--it was time to bring an upgraded service to its users. designs to the online invitations space. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based online e-commerce provider Newegg , which focuses on technology products, has kicked off its holiday season, saying that it has begun its "Black November" holiday sale on Tuesday. This is the eighth year that Newegg has started offering up special shopping deals for the entire month. 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. We talked with Edo about what his firm is up to. Edo Cohen: Seevolution is a real time analytics and heat map company for web sites and web applications.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based HypeMarks , a new startup aimed at social discovery, launched into beta this week, looking to help users and their friends discover the web through each other. The startup lets users create a collection of sites they love, which they can show to their friends, discuss, and recommend to others.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Wednesday that it will begin offering up free clips from the site to mobile users--the first time that Hulu has offered up content to mobile devices outside of Hulu Plus. The new clips are available via Hulu''s mobile web interface, at Hulu.com. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

In Los Angeles, it seems like everyone has either a script or a startup idea in their back pocket. We spoke with Lisa Hennessy , one of the founders of DreamJobbing and an entertainment industry veteran, to learn more about the startup. We started brainstorming about this a year ago, and just launched yesterday.

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JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . The site offers up a way to research and book adventure travel, across the globe. . Kijubi [ Profile ].

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MARCH 28, 2012

Los Angeles-based MediaPass , the developer of subscription and content monetization software aimed at online publishers, has raised $1.75M more in a Series B funding. The funding came from angels, including Jeff Stibel of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. and Jeff Tinsley of MyLife. READ MORE>>.

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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. Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday. That was the genesis of the site. Before, you might look up May 20th as a birthday, and we''d sort by age.

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JULY 26, 2016

Dropoff , an on-demand, same day delivery startup, said today that it has launched its services in Los Angeles, as the first expansion of the startup into California. The company says it is targeting the "last mile" of delivery for businesses. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Invested.in , the developer of web-based software for managing crowd funding efforts, has connected its service into the popular AngelList service, saying last week that it is launching Crowdcelerator.com , a new service which uses AngelList's API to help startup companies raise funds and close their fundraising rounds.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

A number of web services has popped up in recent years that has helped cater to people with busy lives. Zipments is a web service that connects your delivery needs with couriers in your area. What was the motivation to start Zipments and when did you open for business? A few months later, Zipments was born.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based Prevoty , a developer of enterprise security tools, said Thursday that it has rolled out two new products, which plug into apps running on Java and.NET. The startup is led by Julien Bellanger. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2013

A Los Angeles startup, Gigit --still in early beta--thinks so, and has begun offering up event planners and others a way to tap into a marketplace of bands and other musicians who will play live. Gigit has quietly scored angel funding from such prominent investors as Paige Craig to work on its project.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies.

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JULY 13, 2010

Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. Daoudi spoke to us about how his experience at DoubleClick resulted in starting up CatchPoint. What does CatchPoint's software do?

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based Nationbuilder , the startup developing online tools which helps organizations create web sites, organize volunteers, outreach to supporters, and more, is expanding its efforts beyond politics, the company said Tuesday.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. Phoebe Scott: I started Laudville, because I consume a lot of entertainment of all kinds. What is Laudville?

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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MAY 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based Greentoe.com , which operates an online marketplace which lets people name their own price for electronics and other items, has raised a round of angel funding, the firm said today. The funding came from Parker Thompson from 500 Startups/Dave McClure. Size of the funding was not announced.

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