socalTECH

JULY 21, 2016

Just having one of those days, when you need some help--ie your car broke down, you can't get to daycare to pick up your child, you've got a medical emergency? The app was created by startup veterans Mark Jeffrey and Chris Hayes. 911--to provide help.

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Marina Del Rey Social Network Help Networking 100

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Here's a classic example that illustrates the issue - the sign-up page from Mahalo. At the heart of this is two main advantages of having social network sign-up / registration.

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Design Mahalo Social Network Email 225

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

Let’s start with what I like most about the product. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. It’s fun when a story is blowing up to see the right hand side of your screen light up like a pinball machine.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. His latest startup, Row 44, is providing hardware to Southwest Airlines and other airlines for wireless access, and has a number of announced wins.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). The evening cocktail party was an 80’s theme and lived up to the traditional Twiistup fame with an open bar, elaborate costumes, Hollywood lighting and poker games until 4 in the morning. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. We caught up with Jason and Kurt to hear more about the company. What's the story behind the company and how it started? Jason Kiesel: Yes.

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Startup Writing Southern California Email 100