SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 18, 2011

They also have a growing tech culture in Los Angeles and its adjacent cites like Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills as companies like Demand Media, MySpace and more recently Hulu, Mahalo, Callfire, DocStoc and BetterWorks have staked claim to the area.

Beverly Hills 113

Beverly Hills West Hollywood Mahalo Santa Monica 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the online media startup headed by former Userplane founder Michael Jones, said today that it has hired on Sean Percival as Director of Content at the firm. Percival has previously served at Trading Places International and Nova Development.

Tsavo 100

Tsavo Userplane Mahalo Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Coffin also has invested as an angel in Billshrink, Buscape, CyberRain, Demand Media, Docstoc, Hautelook, Impact Radius, Inadco, Machinima, Mahalo, Rubicon Project, and 2tor. Split Rock was an investor in LowerMyBills, which Coffin sold to Experian in 2005 for $380M.

Mahalo 150

Mahalo Southern California Venture Capital Demand 150

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

Southern California 228

Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 8, 2011

Panel includes: Dane Boedigheimer , Creator of The Annoying Orange; Wilson Cleveland, Founder, CJP Digital Media; Rick Rey , Director of Audience Development, Blip.tv; Dan Weinstein, Partner, Collective Digital Studio; Jason Calacanis CEO, Mahalo and This Week In; Moderator: Drew Baldwin, Tubefilter. See [link] (more)

Mahalo 100

Mahalo Tips Hollywood Media 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sean is currently VP of Online Marketing at MySpace, which he joined at the beginning of the year, and had previously been at Tsavo Media and Mahalo. According to Sean and Laurie, the blog is being shut down "for the time being." READ MORE>>.

Blogging 124

Blogging Technical Review Sites Tsavo 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Docstoc, Ken Rutkowski of MeTAL, Mark Suster of Upfront, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo--but we had to pass them up, too, in favor of some of the new folks to the scene. Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

Southern California 279

Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The founder, Ryan Scott, was co-founder and CTO of email marketing firm NetCreations, which had an IPO in 1999; Scott is also an angel investor, and lists himself on LinkedIn as an investor in Tesla Motors, Mahalo, Dipity, and a number of other startups. READ MORE>>

Causecast 100

Causecast Sites Mahalo Conference 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming SMCLA: Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics, live from the Mahalo Office in Santa Monica. This month we are going to take a deeper dive into one of the easiest ways to measure online social media efforts – through Google analytics. Come join Social Media Club – Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb.

Google 56

Google Mahalo Social Media Santa Monica 56

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

Jason Nazar

OCTOBER 14, 2009

We are joined this month by Jason Calacanis the CEO of Mahalo , co-founder of Weblogs Inc and publisher of Sillcon Alley Reporter. These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media. Jason is one of the best known internet CEOs and hosts the popular show This Week in Startups. You can follow Jason on twitter.

Santa Monica 76

Santa Monica Entrepreneur Startup Mahalo 76

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. It filed for an IPO on August 6th. LowerMyBills, Inc.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that.

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

On our judging panel, we had Scott Sangster (Tech Coast Angels), Tyler Crowley (Mahalo), Pamela Coker (Daggerboard), Rick Citron (Citron & Deutsch Law Firm), and Dan Dato (Up.StartLA). First place winners received sessions with Dan, Rick, Amazon services, as well as Disneyland tickets!

USC 82

USC Startup Tech Coast Angels Guide 82

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. If you missed this Startup Weekend LA, also check out SW in the OC on Mar 30 and the soon to be announced Startup Weekend Media edition.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Current round: $8mm in Series B from RRE Ventures (Will Porteous)(lead), SoftBank, Hearst Interactive Media, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Founder Collective.Total raised: $11.5mm.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. This is especially useful if you use links in social media (blogs, tweets, Facebook links or YouTube links) to grab some traffic. Below is a highlight video of the evening. To view the entire talk click here. .

Google 68

Google eBook Mahalo JavaScript 68

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

There’s a fast growing group of tech companies including: Docstoc , Demand Media , BetterWorks , GoodReads , Mahalo , Beachmint , Campus Explorer , DECA , eHarmony , GumGum , Savings , Shoedazzle , Business.com , FamilyFinds , Affordit , Bestcovery , JibJab , CoLoft and many more.

Company 111

Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media. Kurt Daradics: I've just found myself at the nexus between technology, digital media, activism, and pop culture. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100