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MARCH 17, 2017

Los Angeles-based digital marketing agency Wpromote has opened up applications for several student scholarships, with the top prize being a MacBook Pro and $500. According to Wpromote, it is accepting applications from U.S. According to Wpromote, it is accepting applications from U.S. The deadline for applications is April 28th, 2017.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Los Angeles-based freelance writing marketplace Ebyline said this week that it has launched a brand new product, which helps WordPress publishers pay contributors to their WordPress blog.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Do you have a hard time concentrating and keeping on task, particularly for concentration intensive tasks like writing, coding, and reading? A new Los Angeles Startup, focus@will , said this morning that it has launched a private beta of a service to do just that, by using music.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software which helps people create iOS, Android, and web games, said Friday that its software now supports Windows 8 application development. GameSalad's tools allow users to create mobile applications and games without having to write code. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Border Stylo , the developer of Write On Glass , software which allows you to share comments on any web page, chat with friends, and others all through Firefox and Chrome browsers, has scored $3.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based aesthetic medicine developer KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals announced today that it has named Frederick Beddingfield, III, as its Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Beddingfield is a dermatologist, who was most recently at Allergan, working on that firm's Botox, Juvederm, and Latisse products. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based SBIR Source , which maintains an online database of grant opportunities from the Federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, said this morning that it has launched a new product, GrantIQ. READ MORE>>. sbir source grantiq database small business innovation research grant funding'

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based eByline , a startup developing a marketplace for journalists and freelance writers, said today that it has raised $1.5M The funding comes on top of an angel funding round the firm announced in September. in a first round of funding. The round came from E.W. Scripps Company. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Los Angeles-based digital marketing agency Wpromote said on Monday that it has launched a new set of scholsrships, which will go to students interested in digital marketing. According to Wpromote, the new scholarships--which will be awarded bi-annually--will total $3,000, with the first award in December of this year.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne has tapped online software from Los Angeles-based startup Invested.in for a new crowdfunding campaign for her Avril Lavigne Foundation , according to Lavigne. Invested.in, which is headed by Alon Goren, helps power web-based crowdfunding sites for individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

- Focus@will , the Los Angeles music startup which says its service can help users improve their concentration and retention while working, said today that it has opened up a public beta of its service. Focus@will explained that the public beta comes after the signup of over 9,000 private beta users.

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MARCH 29, 2012

In yet more money for the subscription e-commerce sector in Los Angeles, Quarterly , a startup which delivers monthly, curated gifts from cultural influencers via subscription, has raised $1.25M in a funding round. The funding was first disclosed in a regulatory filing this week. READ MORE>>.

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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. Having a major fund in town makes a major difference.

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APRIL 24, 2013

Los Angeles-based Focus@will , the operator of the music streaming service aimed at helping users become more productive, said today that it has is launching its paid subscription service to consumer tomorrow. The company claims its service helps increase attention span up to 400 percent while working, studying, writing and reading.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

Wish you could design and develop your own mobile games, but don't know how to write software? No problem!

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based LegalZoom , the online legal document provider, is the target of a class action lawsuit in Missouri, which is looking to block the ability of the firm to provide wills, leases, and other documents. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: We're investing in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and New York. Tell us about the new fund?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have a contribution from Ryan Born , the CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based AudioMicro. So the writers block consensus was to write about LA startup incubators and mentorship organizations (2x as many votes as the other proposed topics).

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JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

However, in a very unusual move, the City of Los Angeles has tapped a true technology veteran and insider, well known to those here in the industry-- Peter Marx , most recently at Qualcomm--to head up the city''s efforts to both adopt technology and improve the city''s relationship with its growing technology companies.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

With its latest product release, Los Angeles-based PromoJam is gambling on the first, and made managing and running social promotions much more like inhabiting a social network than running enterprise software. PromoJam debuted its brand new, self-service version of its social promotions tool today, PromoJam 2.0,

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. They came down to Los Angeles, and we brainstormed ideas, and basically--in 24 hours-- we revitalized my original idea, but for the iPhone. That's really empowering. It's working out really well.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

According to Scripted.com, it raised $700,000 in a seed financing round, which was led by Crosslink Capital, and also included Liveops founder Douglas Feirstein, Jody Mulkey, as well as other angels, including other Los Angeles area investors. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based You2Gov, an online social networking startup focused on politics, said this week that it has added new technology to allow its users to directly contact members of Congress. The firm's site now allows users to email, write, or make calls via Skype and Jaxtr to their political representatives. READ MORE>>

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based FreedomSpeaks.com an online web site focused on political social networking, said Tuesday that it has launched a new application programming interface (API) targeted at helping developers tap into information about publicly elected officials. READ MORE>>

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MAY 5, 2010

Yossi, who is co-chairing the upcoming Israel Conference (www.theisraelconference.org) here in Los Angeles next month, recently sat down with us to talk about entrepreneurship, why Israel has been able to become such a center of high tech--and what Southern California might be able to learn from the Israeli culture.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL, the online production firm behind lonelygirl15, said today that the firm has teamed up with CBS for an online site tied into a new, 13-episode series called Harper's Island. According to CBS and EQAL, they will launch Harper's Globe , an online site which will be complementary to the television storyline.

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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. For example, if more people search for socaltech each month, and more users are liking your site, that''s an easy way for Google to see that a site has value.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

That's something which Los Angeles-based VroomGirls (www.vroomgirls.com) is looking to change--with the backing of sponsors like Toyota, Ferrari, and Lamborghini. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. It's simply that there are so many men doing it.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. If we had both still be in Los Angeles, we'd been too busy to start a company, and wouldn't have need to start a company. At the time, I got Lynda.com. It was going crazy.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles? Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Ebyline , the online marketplace which connects publishers with freelance journalists, has rolled out a new offering today, which it says can help publishers produce their own, custom news feeds. The service, called Ebyline News Desk, allows publishers to create their own, custom feeds of original content.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. I was a sales person at HotJobs, but after we went public I helped open up an office in Los Angeles, and lived in Los Angeles for eight years.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers.

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