socalTECH

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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Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It is also a result of pent-up demand. I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii.

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Sunday, November 20, 2011 -- Startup Weekend Orange County. Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend.

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Orange County Startup Course Software Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Saturday, November 19, 2011 -- Startup Weekend Orange County. Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend.

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Orange County Startup Course Software Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Friday, November 18, 2011 -- Startup Weekend Orange County. Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend.

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Orange County Startup Course Software Development 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

A $3 billion acquisition offer is heady territory for Southern California''s high tech startup ecosystem--the largest exit in recent memory for a venture-backed startup was the 2011 IPO of Green Dot, worth $2 billion to its investors. snapchat merger acquisition exit facebook tencent mobile' READ MORE>>.

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Snapchat Report Southern California Journal 210

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

Last year’s ARE event was the largest event ever focused on advancing the Augmented Reality industry, with 520 attendees, 90 speakers, 30 hours of sessions, and one of a kind activities such as the ARt Gala, The Auggies Best AR Demo Award, and AR Startup Launchpads. The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event.

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Software Review Case Study Startup Technical Review 73

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Since the recent recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The former head of eHarmony , Greg Waldorf , has surfaced over at a small mobile invoicing and expense management startup called Invoice2go , after a big funding round for the company. Waldorf left eHarmony back in 2011 to become CEO-in-Residence for Accel. Waldorf had most recently been CEO-in-Residence for Accel Partners.

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eHarmony Venture Capital Mobile Capital 138

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 21, 2011

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 -- Demo Night / Happy Hour. There are quite a few startups and apps coming out of LA that are gaining traction very quickly. Come join us for happy hour drinks and tech nerdery. Let's find out more about them!! See [link] (more)

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Web Mobile Software Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2014

The new fund is larger than the company''s second fund, which was raised in 2011 and was worth $28M. According to Wavemaker Partners, the new fund will be focused on mobile services, Internet, and software. seed startup investment partners capital venture ventures siemer labs wavemaker' READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Venture Capital Invest Mobile 168

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2013

SideCar--which quietly launched February 15--said it has begun accepting rides city-wide, teaming up app users with drivers who are willing to give other people a lift around town for a donation. The company--which also has operations in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin and Philadelphia--is run locally by City Manager Drew Crofton.

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Culver City West Los Angeles Santa Monica SoCal 230

socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2013

It all looked good at the time: oil company Exxon needed to develop a more earth-friendly way to produce oil, and San Diego startup Synthetic Genomics needed funding to get its technology off the ground. But then, ExxonMobil cut back its original investment--worth up to $600M--in Synthetic Genomics. What happened? READ MORE>>.

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Layoffs Outsource Development San Diego Mobile 159

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2013

Mobile, but would also be shutting down its properties, including its service, widgets, and mobile app. GoPollGo had been started by Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg, and Paul Kompfner, and was based in Palo Alto. According to GoPollGo, it will be joining Yahoo!

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Idealab Yahoo Incubator Pasadena 159

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based trueRSVP , a new startup founded by a trio of University of Southern California students, is launching today, looking to provide better online event planning. trueRSVP is launching at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference today. trueRSVP is launching at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference today. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Conference Los Angeles Mobile 202

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Faced with their own issue of "flaky" people who were responding with an RSVP for their volunteer projects, but not actually showing up, the founders of trueRSVP (www.truersvp.com) decided to take things into their own hands, and create a service to provide better feedback to event organizers. We went into Startup Weekend to solve that issue.

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Startup Organization Sites Conference 147

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Silicon Valley?

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Smart matching offline connections startup, At The Pool , has today launched a mobile app that is set to reinvent the way people connect and interact. Founded in 2011 by twenty-five year old Alex Capecelatro , At The Pool serves over 3.5 Social networking isn’t social. million people in over 100 countries.

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Mobile Social Network Examples Organization 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I entered Pepcom’s Mobile Focus event with heightened excitement after driving through the busy intersections of Downtown San Diego’s rickshaw littered streets. Literally, I mean everyone… pets included, with Tagg , a Qualcomm backed venture that allows consumers to track their dogs via mobile or computer access.

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San Diego Mobile Startup Cloud Computing 65

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. TechZulu: Let’s start off with an obvious question. Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. What led you to make Proven?

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Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2014

Qualcomm ''s Executive Chairman, Paul Jacobs , is one of the major investors in stealthy digital photography startup Light , which revealed last night that it has raised a $9.7M Laroia was a VP at Qualcomm from 2006 until 2011. funding round for its efforts to re-invent photography. READ MORE>>.

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Invest Venture Capital Mobile Funding 147

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

With the aid of visual cues or prominent AR markers , these apps can spawn 3D objects from flat surfaces to be made viewable on phones and mobile devices. If you’ve ever seen anyone hold their phone or tablet up to a seemingly empty space and laugh hysterically, they probably weren’t crazy, just enjoying an augmented reality app.

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Conference Startup Google Competition 69

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2016

Los Angeles is one of ten cities where residents can start ordering restaurant and food delivery via Uber , the company said this week, as it expands into the restaurant and food delivery area. The move is part of a rush to offer restaurant delivery services nationwide by on-demand companies. READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Demand 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2012

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the startup developer of a mobile app for tracking a user's travels, said today that the firm is now seeing posts from 125 countries and over 4,864 cities on its app. HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo!

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eHarmony Yahoo San Diego Mobile 174

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. Approachable.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2014

The new fund is larger than the company''s second fund, which was raised in 2011 and was worth $28M. According to Wavemaker Partners, the new fund will be focused on mobile services, Internet, and software. wavemaker labs siemer ventures venture capital partners investment startup seed' READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Funding Venture Capital Invest 100

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

According to the author, 60% of Facebook’s revenue comes from mobile ads, double that of the prior year. As Facebook''s mobile ad revenue attests, marketers are stepping up their "phone based" spending. Now consider the same experience from a mobile point of view. Yep, Facebook is a phone company.

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Company Companies Mobile Advertising 200

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Go Trexx (www.gotrexx.com), which is based in Mission Viejo, think it's by engaging kids with mobile applications which provide background information, helps to build excitement, and gets kids involved in traveling to different destinations. Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children.

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Guide Framework Mobile Startup 232

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Digital Lounge Mixer. Network with Startups, Digital Media, Entertainment, Music, Marketing, Advertising, Web Services and Apps, Mobile Business Owners, Professional Services, Entrepreneurs, Investors and Corporations. See [link] (more)

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Entertainment Advertising Web Mobile 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Recargo , a startup which is developing mobile apps for helping electric vehicle owners find the nearest electric charging stations, said this week that it has acquired PlugInCars.com , an online news and community site focused on electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Recargo's apps run on both iPhone and Android.

Acquisition 154

Acquisition News Los Angeles Mobile 154

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). But let me start with some data. Calls are changing but not dying.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Over 500 startups applied last quarter to Launchpad LA’s accelerator, but only eight were chosen. Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2011

According to Qualcomm, it has selected six regional finalists, who will each represent $100,000 in venture financing, with the chance to win $150,000 as a grand prize winner at DEMO Spring 2011 in Palm Desert. READ MORE>>.

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Competition San Diego Social Network Venture Capital 145

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. That's both voice and data, through a mobile application, and are also now looking to go into homes.

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Startup IP Networking Encino 245