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APRIL 15, 2010

billion in investments in 681 deals in the first quarter of 2010. Averitt explained that a combination of less money in early stage finance; more people starting companies; a good reputation in Southern California; and more mature tech transfer offices and processes within SoCal universities and institutes has helped in the investment uptick.

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MAY 12, 2015

Built around the idea of convergence between creativity, serenity and design, the boutique studio launched in April 2015 to serve as gathering spot for freelancers, tech types and entertainment folks to get out the house and into their projects. “We are passionate about creating an intimate and collaborative community.

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JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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JULY 31, 2012

It has been an incredible journey for me and I could not be prouder of what we accomplished over the past few years helping define Yahoo as a leader in digital media and advertising. Yahoo is an amazing brand and company, and I leave knowing we did all we could to help inform and entertain more than 700 million users each month.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Sure, a great operating system is one of the things Microsoft is most known for, but there are dozens of other Microsoft products and services that help businesses grow. Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. That’s 133,333 units per day.

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MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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MAY 21, 2011

Not really helping you do something better. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. You want to see what’s new. You want the dopamine rush. Then you stop. Non valuable.

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AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." The event was created in 2010 by Hank and John Green, when they hosted approximately 1,400 industry insiders and fans. Once WalMart has helped you establish your brand, it will then be possible to sell premium products via other channels, such as boutique shops or even directly to consumers.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Go Go Mongo, steps into that realm and has helped children learn about healthy eating. In talking with Ahmed he mentioned that the core idea had originated from his desire to help teach his younger family members learn the names of different foods in English. As English was their second language (ESL). Try out the game for yourself.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

A little bit about the author Chris Camillo…When the stock market was at it’s worst and our economy was failing us from 2007-2010 his private self-managed portfolio outperformed the big fancy dogs of Wall Street. To entertain us and/or inform. It’s an observation center that will in end help me to create a secure financial future.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

Nick Tran, Social Media Director for Taco Bell said, “The new entertainment for teens is YouTube. VidCon launched in 2010 with approximately 1,400 attendees and grew to about 12,000 people this year, (according to Wikipedia ). To immerse themselves in the culture where their potential customers are actively involved = YouTube.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The first step we took was to choose a brand name that we felt represented our shared values and that we felt helped force us to live our values. ” We won’t be the right cultural fit for every entrepreneur but if we’re truly WYSIWYG then it helps entrepreneurs decide if we’re aligned. Transparent. Early Stage.

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JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: The first incarnation of the idea for Fliptu started to gel between 2008 and 2010. We showed it to other brands, and colleagues in music, sports, and entertainment, and finally brought it to the MAGIC apparel trade show. What's your background and how did you come up with this?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And you can have ulterior motives like helping people or being involved with “cool stuff.&# If you’re investing other people’s money you’re a professional money manager. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!).

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MARCH 17, 2010

’ &# His message was that in 2010 great business can be built anywhere if there is a great team and the will to make it work. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. I have one message for you, ‘get over it!’

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AUGUST 2, 2010

The site has gone beyond the internet and into mainstream with its HBO show called "Funny or Die Presents," which premiered back in February 2010. Expanding their production service offerings to advertising clients, Funny or Die is building branded entertainment campaigns. And, along the way we've become sustainably profitable.".

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MARCH 5, 2013

Earbits was founded by Joey Flores and Eric Doyle in 2010 and both have created a new social way to listen to music. According to Joey Florez, Earbits is focused on two goals: the listeners overall experience and to help smaller indie bands be more exposed to the music industry. But that’s where the similarities end.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The telecommunications firm says people in Los Angeles increasingly depend on mobile Internet connections for communication, entertainment and productivity at work, at home and everywhere. Toebben added that this investment by AT&T will help more people and businesses stay connected in today’s fast-moving technological world.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

LAGbook was founded in 2010 by two twin brothers Chika and Chidi Nwaogu when they were just 19 years old and freshmen at University. 2010 and launched on 25 Apr. 2010, same day we purchased the domain name, lagbook.com. Dating: This service helps our users extend LAGbook into a dating community. When was it launched?

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

We are always looking for ways to help improve the experience here at TechZulu. Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( Are you interested? Contact us for more information.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It helped that we could speak to that problem, and help the studios address that issue by giving consumers a legal alternative. Especially with DVD sales declining, we offer an interesting way to help studios. Then, we got written up by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 sites of 2010. What do you feel about UI/UX?

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APRIL 28, 2010

Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. It’s fun social entertainment that without words helps me feel connected to people that I’m close to or whom I want to follow. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued).

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Amazon recently announced that it would be adding 100,000 temporary workers to help deal with its projected holiday crush, a 25% increase over its 80,000 seasonal hires in 2014. travel and entertainment). Home values have been rising lately, and analysts expect that to continue.

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JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. He joined WebVisible, a leading provider of local online marketing software and services, as chief operating officer in 2009 and was elevated to CEO in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

TechZulu is always here to help. We are TechZulu after all, so you know we could not do this post without some helpful event recommendations for startups and entrepreneurs. Here in Los Angeles we've tied the entire conference together with the Twelethon , a creative fundraising platform in support of Inner-City Arts.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Community Sponsor.

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MAY 6, 2012

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. We want to help them, and will. Thank you @eminutes. . Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun Fact: The idea behind DataCulture started in 2010 when Gurudatt and Karthik connected on Twitter and spent a few hours talking about how data could change the world. He’s helped shut down more companies than he’s started. . India’s Mobile first eBates and its digital assistant helps consumers find the best savings online.

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MARCH 2, 2012

million in 2010 from the prior year, according to research firm IDC (taken from the Wall Street journal’s coverage on the GoPro camera). basically, the app helps you mark and cut footage with a swipe of your hand. With producing at our finger tips, we can film our lives to post for the word to see. To do this just, “use one hand.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. Comment help. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com. 13 comments. 9 people listening. Get Livefyre. Post comment as. Roger Libing Chen.

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MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. Today’s Normalization. Everybody is now payment ready.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. For the past four years, TECH cocktail has been journalistically covering and helping rally together. Joel Bush, Amplifier.

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