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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Pasadena-based New Matter , which is developing consumer focused, 3D printers, said today that it has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Alsop Louie Partners, and also included Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 -- CommNexus presents a special SIGÂ? From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money. Phil Baker, author of "From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money," will walk you through how to turn a good idea into a profitable product, while avoiding the numerous pitfalls along the way.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009 -- SEO and Social Marketing. His history includes roles such as Director of Consumer Innovations and Interactive Marketing at REALTOR.com, Move.com and Top Producer brands. He currently consults companies on how to increase reach and engagement with consumers. What is grey hat?

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APRIL 10, 2019

One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry.

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JULY 23, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 -- 8th Digital Media Summit. Past presenters have received millions in funding from our program; and several have sold their company for huge earnings. See [link] (more).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 -- Messaging Platforms. Learn how to define the messaging backbone on which all company communication is built--internal and external, employee, shareholder, investor, consumer and client.

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APRIL 12, 2017

I tragically lost my mom to cancer, my girlfriend (who I was living with at the time) and I broke up, and then my team and I were laid-off when the market crashed in 2009. Until I was fortunate enough to secure a job with Ron Burkle at the end of 2009. We know what we're good at, which is mostly consumer facing technology.

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JULY 21, 2011

With the rise of location-based check-ins from Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook, Twitter, and others, there's suddenly lots more data that marketers want to parse through to make sense of how consumers are interacting with their brands. How did the company come about? Whats your prior experience?

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AUGUST 31, 2009

For decades, consumer magazines were pretty much the only way for CPG companies to reach a large audience of women making purchase decisions in a contextually relevant way.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 -- Employment Law For Early Stage Companies. Start-up companies walk through a volatile minefield when it comes to hiring and managing employees. With California's unique employment laws, every new hire can result in large-scale liabilities if a company does not have ongoing compliance and monitoring.

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MARCH 1, 2012

It provides consumer rewards, and on the merchant side, it allows them to identify local customers and reacquire them by pushing them offers and incentives to come back. We're able to do lots of this segmentation and sophisticated remarketing back to consumers, to get them to purchase more from the businesses they love.

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MAY 29, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009 -- The Israel Conference. Join us for our first interactive forum to bring Israel-facing companies together to increase business and investment opportunities between Israel and California. See [link] (more).

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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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MARCH 18, 2020

Despite the fact that most of the CEOs I advise would claim to be in the first category, when I dig deeper I find that at best they are fast followers , due to the time consuming challenges of transforming any business in this digital age. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Two good examples are children's entertainment company (Spin Master) which launched an AR drone-racing game for the holiday season. The partnership will bring about the first mass-market consumer application of AR drone piloting. The company won numerous awards during his tenure as CEO.

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APRIL 5, 2012

We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company. Michael Schneider: The high level is that we're taking something that is normally very expensive and time consuming, and making it simple and cost effective. The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist.

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JULY 20, 2011

It came about, because we saw a gap in the market around entertainment news written for the 18-34 consumer segment. But, there are not a whole lot of outlets in between which are breaking news for the 18-34 year old consumer. As a result, consumers would go away after they hit that information. Everyone knows this.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed by the companies. The firms said that the virtual world is set for launch in winter of 2009. magnify360's technology will be used to tailor the experience of each "resident" of the virtual world, and also provide information on shopping habits of its consumers.

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JUNE 13, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009 -- Three Brands Speak Out on the Effectiveness of Social Media. Consumers have a remote and they control time, place, content and interface. CommNexus Marketing SIG. You've heard the buzz: it's all about social media. Twitter, Facebook, bookmarking, LinkedIn, social networks, microblogs and video.

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MAY 3, 2009

Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Sophisticated digital consumer devices such as the iPod, Xbox, Archos PMP, and Mobile Smartphones along with the broadband networks that connect themhave quickly moved the distribution of content to the digital world.

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JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. You've done this before in other industries--what led to new company?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: A Comprehensive View of Social Marketing, Social Media, and Social Networks. What separates successful companies from unsuccessful ones is often marketing.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) , the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry. CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. He’s founded 3 companies and I’ll bet he has 3-5 more in him. The idea immediately resonated. So he had had a taste of it.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

On a global scale, more women are in the workforce, and within the household they drive 70-80 percent of all consumer purchasing decisions. In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. – Rose.

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JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. Consumers buying through smart phones, travelers using the new, shared economy and businesses replacing old software with modern cloud-based solutions. And as I always assert, “Great companies are built in downturns. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

This morning's contribution is from Krisztina 'Z' Holly host of the The Art of Manufacturing podcast and founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), which supports connecting local manufacturers and high tech companies. What was the big news for your company this year? Snap Inc became a hardware companySpecs, drones, merchandise.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011.

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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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JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 That’s awesome for users of Salesforce.com or companies that want to cater to them but less awesome for pure startups that want independence and are really just looking for cloud infrastructure. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The team at Recycled Bride knows weddings are expensive, time-consuming to plan, and that’s the reason they want to make it easy to source great deals on pricey wedding items, and help you recover some of the money spent. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. Weddings are expensive, and time-consuming to plan.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Marketing Director for Paypal Inc. CapLinked was founded in late 2009 by Eric M. They knew from firsthand experience how difficult the process of raising capital is for entrepreneurs, who'd rather be building their company than managing paperwork and updating cap tables. Jackson and Christopher Grey.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. on April 24, 2009.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Essentially, we're still oriented around social shopping, where our fundamental value proposition is helping consumers figure out what to buy. That's why we exist, and why we are a company, to help consumers figure out that fundamental question. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu? We currently have two models.

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Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

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MAY 25, 2013

You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. Let’s look at some great companies. Is it right that VCs had no involvement in persuading Sheryl Sandberg to join the fledgling company? And reinventing itself. That’s normal.

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