socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 4, 2011

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Build a Great Internet Company”. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT: [link]. This month’s event will be held at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica by the 3rd street promenade. The venue holds up to 300 attendees. Santa Monica, CA 90401-1418.

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Santa Monica Company Companies Startup 87

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year.

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Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are just over a week out from StartupDemo and things are shaping up to be an amazing event. Last Friday was the final deadline for all StartupDemo applications to be submitted and we are hard at work selecting the best Startups to Demo during the event. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA. to 11:00 p.m.

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Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We caught up with James Segil , the firm's President, to hear the story behind that big growth at the company. We've grown really fast.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns (www.happyreturns.com) is solving that issue, with a network of "return bars" it has opened in partnership with physical retailers. How did you start Happy Returns? We ended up being acquired by Nordstrom. That's when we started talking to them about the expansion.

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Training Customer Custom Software Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

TZ: What was the development schedule from idea to picking up your first haul? This was somewhat concerning, but as the college move-ins and move-outs started to pick up, we began getting 3-5 requests a day, which is what we average daily even after the college move-out season ended. TZ: Is there a size limit of hauled items?

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FAQ Startup Technical Review Santa Monica 98

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. So when I started talking with Evan Rifkin almost a year ago about the company he was planning to build, I was intrigued. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

LawPivot is a legal Q&A website enabling companies, especially startups, to confidentially receive crowdsourced legal answers from highly qualified lawyers for a fraction of the cost. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. It’s that simple. Community Sponsors.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. Make sure to tune in!

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. For those of you who may not know about StartupDemo, it is an event that TechZulu and Schmoozd have partnered up to bring you some of the hottest startups around.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. Why did you start Chi.mp, and what does it provide? It's your place on the web, a home, where ownership starts by owning your own identity.

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Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. 27 on the list of Most Valuable Startups. You betcha.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ▼ June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ► May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Startup 3.0: For us, being near Santa Monica was key.

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