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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. What is Tradesparq?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Analytics and optimization startup, FlxOne , aims to deliver insights and actions for real-time advertising by use of cloud-based infrastructure and data crunching to deliver insights and actions, making it the first platform to optimize performance automatically. billion, up from $8.7 billion in Q2 2012. Take action.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The race to get your SXSWi panel to as many votes as possible so that you will be selected to present at the coming 2012 SXSW. Power Up Your Life thru Mobile Gamification (Velti). Startups: Demystifying the PR Process for the Lean Startup (Symphony PR). Merge Offline/Online Networks for Startup Success.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2013

Are you trying to figure out where your competitors and running in-app advertising on Android? San Diego-based WhatRunsWhere said today that it has launched a brand new service, which helps advertisers track what ads competitors are running into mobile apps for the Android operating system. Pricing on the new tool was not announced.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2013

A local startup, West Hollywood-based Tinder , looks to have attracted an interesting endorsement: Miss USA 2012 Nana Meriwether. Rad is the former co-founder of Twitter advertising firm Ad.ly. Looking for a hot date? According to an interview with NYMag, Meriwether has been using Tinder since April to find dates in New York.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The IPO filing by Rubicon Project is not only notable for one of Southern California''s''s fast growing Internet advertising companies: it looks to be the the first IPO filing by a venture-backed, technology startup since 2012. rubicon project advertising merger exchange exit technology legalzoom openx spacex'

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. Startup DNA. We started talking about his joining Upfront more than a year ago.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We will be at CES from start to finish (January 10-13), so make sure to keep up to date by checking back daily. Hear from key influencers and investors about trends shaping the connected TV market, mobile and web apps, iPad, content discovery and hybrid TV standards and opportunities for advertising and marketing campaigns.

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Social Media Newsletter Mobile Startup 84

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based investor Siemer Ventures has backed social media advertising and analytics firm Optimal , Optimal said Monday. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

But, how do you start? The old way was difficult, time consuming, and often expensive; referrals, calling up lawyers, going through initial consultations. We spoke with Michael Chasin, the company''s co-founder, about the startup. You put your project up, and shortly thereafter, you get price quotes from lawyers.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. Richard leveraged the fact that record companies were Student’s biggest advertisers to subsequently launch a record store.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The top 10 companies only make up 45 percent of the entire space. In the last few years, we've seen a spurt of activity where technology has started to penetrate the industry, and has started to change it. Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: We started the company in the summer of 2012, with five totally random people. Explain how five strangers all ended up starting a company together, exactly? I met with david after he flew up to meet me from Los Angeles. However, it costs anywhere from $7,000 to $20,000 to start using those products.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP? But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This morning, we have Kevin Winston of Digital LA (www.digitalla.net), the organization which is LA's largest digital networking group and which is behind the Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. Similarly, the LA tech scene had had hundreds of startups pop up over the past 5 years.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Today, with the help of the aptly named JOBS act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act) and companies like SeedInvest , it has never been easier for companies to gain exposure and enter the investment solicitation process. What companies like SeedInvest and its peers are doing to help connect investors to startups. 116,105,000.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP.com? Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser.

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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. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. The guy has knowledge.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million since it was founded in 2012. million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor. Including the latest round, ScoreStream has raised a total of $6.8

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

By “vertical production” I meant that many online video production companies will have a strong vertical focus that will help them win the battle to sign up talent, build stronger & more loyal audiences and align with stronger advertiser relationships because they serve more endemic audiences.

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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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JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. More than 150 speakers include top executives from local accelerators, venture capitalists, entertainment powerhouses, brands, and emerging and established start-ups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Developed by Tencent and published by Blizzard, in which Tencent owns a minority stake, in September, Call of Duty: Mobile had a spectacular start, recording more worldwide downloads in a single quarter than any mobile game except Pokémon GO, which saw its peak in Q3 2016, according to app analytics company Sensor Tower.

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Tips Activision Mobile Tool 149

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We discuss the serendipitous circumstances that brought the founding team together (one of the most unique founder stories I’ve heard to date) and move to topics surrounding the future of digital advertising. Just Get Started and Refine Over Time. For more information about Enplug, visit their homepage and Crunchbase profile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

These days, if your startup does not have an Internet home base up and running, you are not ready for business or potential investors. Yet I am amazed to see US Census Bureau data from 2012 that at least 50%, maybe up to 75%, of small businesses still have no presence at all. Websites are a big job and take time.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

As discussed in Mini-ventures Build Entrepreneurial Muscle , I am an advocate of students starting side businesses while in college. Although the startup is still nascent, it has the potential to grow rapidly, as it rides the momentum of one of the most contentious and closely watched elections of the past several decades.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 7, 2013

million to scale its operations and up its RebelAds which it launched two months ago in a move to serve its growing list of clients of nearly 300,000 and monetize. That’s up over 900% growth since January of this year! Social media aggregator RebelMouse recently raised $10.25 Based in New York, RebelMouse is set to use the $10.25

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Monday, August 27th, 2012. Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Enterprise.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We discuss the serendipitous circumstances that brought the founding team together (one of the most unique founder stories I’ve heard to date) and move to topics surrounding the future of digital advertising. Just Get Started and Refine Over Time. For more information about Enplug, visit their homepage and Crunchbase profile.

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So pervasive has this thinking become that on several occasions startup companies with profitable & fast growing services businesses have come to me wanting to show me the product businesses they created internally to see whether they would be financeable or whether they might be able to create “spin outs&# that could be financed.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. While it’s en vogue for everyone and their grandmother to start an accelerator, the University is coming at it with much, much different motivations than most.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. The Science Inc accelerated startup also said it had delivered 2.9

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. What are your backgrounds, and how did you decide to start WordHustler?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago. Cloud storage. Enterprise.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The news that Ynon Kreiz is joining to run the company as Executive Chairman was first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD (and later picked up by Variety , AdWeek and several other traditional media outlets. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors.

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