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AUGUST 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services firm Media Temple says it has upgraded its web hosting services, to make websites run up to six times faster. Media Temple said the company''s GRID service was originally launched back in 2006. READ MORE>>. cloud hosting mediatemple temple media'

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APRIL 2, 2014

Los Angeles-based Internet video service Frequency , which is led by Blair Harrison, said Wednesday that it has launched on Amazon.com''s new streaming video device, FireTV. Harrison is the founder of IFILM, which he sold to Viacom back in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Car sharing service ZipCar announced today that it is in a "significant expansion" of its car sharing network in the Los Angeles area, and has opened up a regional office in the city, the 16th for the firm. The firm is one of the first car sharing services in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based SOS Online Backup , a developer of cloud-based online backup and data protection services, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. SOS Online Backup was founded by Ken Shaw, and first launched its services in 2006. The round came from Splashpoind Investors.

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

Today, we have a contribution from Anna Barber , the Managing Director of Techstars LA (www.techstars.org), one of three startup accelerators run by Techstars in the Los Angeles area. Infrastructure, services and "picks and shovels" tech will be important here. What was the big news for your company this year?

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Los Angeles-based NantWorks , the investment and umbrella company for the projects of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, announced a deal today with Alcatel-Lucent , where Nantworks will acquire Alcatel-Lucent''s Digital Multimedia Solutions business unit. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based Panache , a provider of online advertising software and services, has been acquired by 24/7 Real Media , 24/7 Real Media said this morning. The firm was founded in 2006. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the provider of phone authentication services used to reduce fraud and spam with web services, said Tuesday that it has named Max Powers as its Vice President, Client Services. The firm reported 15,558% revenue growth between 2006 and 2010 at those awards. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Anna Barber , the Managing Director of Techstars LA (www.techstars.com), one of the startup accelerators run by Techstars in the Los Angeles area. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. Mogreet operates a mobile greeting card service which sends short video snippets to mobile phones. Mobile-XL develops mobile browser software and information services.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Michael is a bit of an honorary Southern California, spending a large chunk of his time in Los Angeles (where he's built many of his companies) although he's now officially living in Puerto Rico. This morning, we have a contribution from Michael Terpin , the CEO of Transform Group International and Chairman of BitAngels.

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MARCH 3, 2014

Back in 2006, the city set out to build a municipal Wi-Fi network for its citizens. Equally frustrating for users, due to the antennas chosen for the network, the service works best with laptops despite the growing use of smartphones and tablets. Just ask Riverside, California. Good intentions don’t have to pave the road to failure.

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MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. The SimpleGeo API will provide you access to these services.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Wade Eyerly: Basically, it's a flat fee, subscription, all-you-can fly private plane service. We shuttle primarily between Palo Alto and Los Angeles. Since 2006, I have been spending the last six years working on different models on how to make this work. So your first route is going to be Los Angeles to Palo Alto?

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MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. If you look at services like Twitter, there are a lot of users who don't post, but read a lot.

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JUNE 28, 2012

A few days ago, Wallaby ([link] the latest startup out of Los Angeles technology incubator MuckerLab unveiled itself, to solve just that problem. I was there for three years, from 2006 to 2009, in product management and working with retailers launching programs. Is there any additional transaction cost for your service?

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JUNE 3, 2010

Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Total raised: $1.0mm – Read more: TechCrunch.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? We'll be very strategic with expansions.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

We spoke with Aaron--a veteran of both clean technology investing, as well as former CEO of a number of clean technology companies here in Los Angeles--on the new fund. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. Talk about the new firm and the new fund?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. Los Angeles is a great place for startups. Tell me a bit about your background.

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APRIL 5, 2017

How did the shift come from consulting services to a product? I think we've been willing to do things differently, partly because we're based in Diamond Bar, haven't been talking to venture capitalists, and generally being in Los Angeles and being counter-cultural. Bryan Cheung: In 2009, we switch to a subscription model.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Los Angeles startup-- ArmorWay (www.armorwaycom)--is trying to take what has mostly been an esoteric computer science research area, and is now looking to make it applicable in real life. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007.

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APRIL 5, 2010

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. It was also in a group of about 15 people in law offices in Los Angeles. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.

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JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. A large amount of this new fund, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, is focused on technology in the financial services sector. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Next → For one reason or another, people in this country tend to look down on LA.

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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. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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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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DECEMBER 9, 2009

TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. TCA is a not-for-profit organization. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I signed up for volunteer service aboard a floating hospital with a group called Mercy Ships, a humanitarian organization which offered free medical care in the world’s poorest nations. The chief medical officer was a surgeon who left Los Angeles to volunteer for two weeks – 23 years ago. Scott Harrison, 2006.

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MARCH 12, 2007

► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Ive built development teams in Chicago, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and India. Los Angeles was a bit more difficult to find engineers; they were the most creative but more expensive than Chicago.

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JUNE 4, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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