socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Just before the holidays, we caught up with Blair Harrison , founder of Frequency (www.frequency.com), a personal video service which lets consumers watch video from the Internet on any of their devices. Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

We caught up with Co-founder and CEO Atif Siddiqi , who told us about the service. How does the service work, and can people use it yet? As a designer, I can post a mission, and you can check out my portfolio of work, which is then completed and hosted on the site. How far and wide is your service available at the moment?

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, US Government agencies suffered 1108 data breaches between 2005 and 2018 1. The wrong network service can lead to higher costs, unreliable connections, and increased risk of a cyber attack. Switched Ethernet service. Wavelength services.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. This added the number of services closed or combined to thirty and as usual paving way for superior ones. Another service facing the axe is Google Talk Chatback.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I was sitting with the financing guy who was trying to upsell me everything from pre-paying service to prepaying dent repair coverage, etc. I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. In conferences, in bars, at late-night food, touring the sites in China. But I digress. Why so many on leases? .”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. As a result, I came up with the service as a way to help solve the problem, and not burden friends, who might have goodwill but who weren't able to help solve the issue.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The client then presents the consumer with the opportunity to have a dashboard view of social networking sites. Or, they can experience the full site, and we'll optimize the site in the client for a specific handset. The second customer is the social networking sites. So it's a white label offering. So it's been a year.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. We successfully took the firm public in 199, and ended up selling to Anderson Media, to provide Walmart.com's music service.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about? He graduated from U.C.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. At the time I felt that somehow somebody from this organization must have taken advantage of my dad but I had no proof so I just worked with my mom to help him cancel the service and chalked it up to a nasty lesson. Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com).

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. We will soon launch service in the area and our fleet will be logo’d accordingly. We built unique websites for each show.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. What does Anti-AgingGames do?

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. First off, tell us about your network of sites? Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. That recurrent usage created an audience, and is the core to our paid services.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. We're really excited to be here and bring the service here.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

We've got a range of services  from architecture, landscape design, and interior design to the construction side as a general contractor. Within that have own custom cabinet shop, our own metal shop, make our own furniture, and as an offshoot of that, started exploring developing modular, prefab homes in 2005.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For people, alphanumeric strings are not a natural thing to remember, but images are.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

We dive into the very beginnings of IconFinder, where Martin’s personal need led him to start the site, to how he was able to fit working on IconFinder into his school projects and all the way to where the site is now and where they are heading. What do you have planned for the site in the future?

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. John Nahm: We offer a basic service, which allows you to send up to 25 calls at a time for free. People use the free service for small parties, groups, or gatherings.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor. After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. Its like a match made in heaven.

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Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Kevin O'Connor: We're an objective comparison engine for the more complex products and services. What do people find the most useful about your service? What's FindTheBest all about? Most of the comparison apps that we do are human curated.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

How did the idea for Meebo version 3, the web-based IM service, come about? Seth constantly listened to user feedback and tweaked his service along the way to improve the user experience. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. For Meebo 1.3%

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet.

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Stickam Content Draper Web 60

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. You are paying too much, for too little. Big and Small.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. You are paying too much, for too little. Big and Small.

Stickam 40

Stickam Technical Review Draper Venture Capital 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. Gregg Spiradellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

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Content Startup Screening Education 138

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

So I've been in this environment either as a manager, service provider, consultant, mentor, and founder. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Our clients are similarly distributed across industries ranging from banking to online services, to devices. It's extremely widely used. Australia, and Italy.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). startup scene so hot. And what happened in L.A.

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