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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011. I have also been working with a couple entrepreneurs on some exciting new businesses that will be launched in early 2011. Pay attention to what Los Angeles entrepreneurs are doing, it's going to be an interesting 2011.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Daniel Scalisi is the CEO of Los Angeles-based MobileCause (www.mobilecause.com), a startup focused on the mobile, nonprofit fundraising area. We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What is mobile fundraising? Those donations are mobile initiated.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. We're building very advanced analytical models which look at both direct and indirect effects, so that we are able to quantify how different media interacts with each other.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. The now-public.

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JUNE 5, 2012

It all came together in the fall of last year, and we technically started the company in October of 2011. Brian Garrett: The way I describe it, is it's a fashion, media, and commerce company. Brian Garrett: We launched at Disrupt in New York, with what we call our media product. What's your role now at Crosscut?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. Streaming media. Social media. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. In 2011, Business Insider ranked Legal Zoom No. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. Now, everyone has an app.".

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