TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

It’s one of several companies (many based in Los Angeles) that are turning the city into a hub for anyone looking to experience the thrill of immersive gaming. For Survios and other companies that have placed multi-million dollar bets on the viability of virtual reality, the move to location-based gaming isn’t a matter of choice.

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APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. How''d you start the company?

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MARCH 29, 2012

We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. What is PromoJam?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser. billion). to John.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

In the years 2008-10 it seems most of my high school and college friends discovered Facebook and wanted to say hello. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me. I realized that with Facebook I could just publish them into the stream and my family would see them.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- "Recession-proof Pricing Strategies for a Multi-platform World" Technology Council. Today's technology companies increasingly must deliver products on multiple platforms to satisfy customer demand and competitive pressures.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. How did the company start? In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We spoke with Matt Kumin , the company's founder and CEO--who was formerly an executive at Edmunds.com--to learn about the company's products. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. We use the brand, companies, executives, and more to find specific content.

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MAY 4, 2010

We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry. And I made the prediction that within the next 2 years RIM (the parent company of Blackberry) will not be independent. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lindzon led StockTwits as CEO until last year, and continues as chairman.

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JUNE 10, 2013

Pharmaceutical companies spent $20 billion a year marketing their products to medical offices. However, the whole business of those companies working with medical offices is one sorely in need of technology. How did you start the company? The company was born out of the inefficiency in the system. What is RxVantage?

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AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? The “Tyranny of the OR” is a concept from the business best-seller “ Built to Last ,” by James C.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There have been a number of high profile tech IPO s in the recent months including companies such as OpenTable and more recently LogMeIn.

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JULY 31, 2009

Sacks revealed the move at the Twiistup conference Friday, explained the move by saying that "what I miss are all the technology companies are out of there, and I miss tapping the brain trust up there." Yammer provides a Twitter-like corporate microblogging platform, essentially a version of Twitter restricted to specific corporate domains.

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MAY 1, 2014

AssetAvenue, a new and exciting real estate crowdfunding company, has acquired a new asset, Adam Chapnick. Adam is the very mind behind many of the business developments and the growth of Indiegogo into one of the most premier crowdfunding platforms. Adam Chapnick founded Distribber in 2008.

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JULY 16, 2012

Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing. If a fan know they can get their entire brand fix there, rather than having to jump across multiple profiles, multiple social media platform, and networks, that's very compelling. Jeremy Gocke: The first incarnation of the idea for Fliptu started to gel between 2008 and 2010.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium , founded in 2008, has raised close to $113 million since its inception, according to Crunchbase , although that number includes both debt and equity deals. Tealium now has about 700 customers, including major companies in healthcare, financial services, travel, and technology, Lunsford said. It’s been about data.

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APRIL 26, 2011

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. Paige Craig: It was a couple of things.

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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. But having different funds available for different stages of one’s company is actually a really good thing. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008.

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APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform.

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APRIL 3, 2012

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

We spoke with Dreamhammer''s CEO, Nelson Paez , about the company''s software and its vision for a interoperable operating system for drones and robots. What''s the story behind the company, and how did it start? We were originally focused on Fortune 100 companies, from our inception in 2000 through the dot com bust.

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JUNE 1, 2011

I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. What's the story behind Ranker?

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

Josh Hartwell: We officially incorporate in 2003, though we started laying groundwork for the company in 2002. really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. I think we were able to effectively transition, because our technology platform. Long term, it's probably not.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter. By 2008, FanLib was sold to Disney , which shut the site down soon after.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Daniel Scalisi: MobileCause is actually a company we acquired, and reorganized in January. I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have started five companies. Daniel Scalisi: I noticed that the company, although it had been around for three years, had only five competitors. How is the company backed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? The “Tyranny of the OR” is a concept from the business best-seller “ Built to Last ,” by James C.

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

I wish all of them well and feel confident that anybody employed at one of the most innovative companies of the past 10 years will land on his or her feet. The truth is that Twitter is an amazing company and still has an amazing opportunity in front of it. “Our company morale will go down!” What is your cash balance?

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MAY 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. But all of this increased company creation has to go somewhere. It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. It's been great.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. We did a successful trial in 2008. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. How is the company funded?

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MAY 24, 2011

We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore. WOW, right? has accomplished.

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