socalTECH

MAY 8, 2014

San Diego-based solar financing company OneRoof Energy said this morning that it is expanding in the Northeast, and has entered into the New York market. According to the company, it has expanded its residential solar leasing operations to cover New York State. The expansion follows an earlier expansion to Massachusetts. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

TechZulu had the pleasure again this year to help bring all the New Media Expo (NMX) 2013 Keynotes sessions live. If you missed out on the keynotes live we have all of them for you on demand. Scott shared a few secrets that any companies can adopt for their own purposes. Shani Higgins took over as CEO at Technorati in 2011.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Sidecar , which was attempting to compete against Uber and Lyft in the Los Angeles area, and recently switched over to focus on on-demand delivery services, is shutting down, according to the company's CEO. According to Sunil Paul, CEO of Sidecar, it will cease both ride and delivery operations at 2PM Pacific Time on December 31st.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

According to Engaged Capital LLC , it believes Outerwall's current management have impaired the valuation of the company, and is demanding that Outerwall "shut down or sell" ecoATM, among other moves. ecoATM, which is still based in San Diego, was acquired by Outerwall in July of 2013 for $350M, by Outerwall subsidiary Coinstar.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement. Hollywood, the founders felt, was the best place to nurture that talent, according to interviews with the founders conducted at the company’s last demo day. ” Writers need to submit an idea and a writing sample from today through July 6. .

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million in 2023, up from $181.5

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

Entrepreneurs often lament big companies, but most of us hope we’ll create just that. Add in public company demands, lawsuit targets, & millions of customers to continually satisfy, and you have to have great respect for those doing it well. Decisions that take entrepreneurs an hour, often take months at large companies.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. The company quickly pivoted to create a SaaS solution and in less than two years later, it was acquired by Intuit for $30 million. Organic Academia.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

. “Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. Where security concerns may have previously put companies off cloud, the tide may now be turning. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica. Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros., Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy. Start-up Showcase : 30-40 startups give company pitches to the community. Go HERE for the Silicon Beach Fest 2013 schedule and registration.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? Demand Media hosted a welcoming opening party at the Vicerory, and Media Temple organized an amazing closing party at Cross Campus with aerialists, DJ, interactive displays - and people are still talking about the delicious food. I like events.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

It looks like your company has been around for a long time, but it seems like you have been pretty quiet? Josh Meyers: The company was actually founded in 1999, and it goes back to the early roots of the consumer Internet. The company is actually relatively new to the LA market. That''s how we got into LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

With plans to open offices in New York and London next year, FlxOne says its major focus is to empower companies specialized in real-time advertising and help grow with them. Matthijs Keij, CEO FlxOne, is opportunistic that there is demand from firms around the globe. Take action. The Internet ad revenues surged to a landmark $20.1

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The company is backed by Canopy Rivers, Finistere Ventures, and Middleland Capital. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Han Chen to better understand what the company is working on, and some of the complexity of getting their technology to market. We raised our first round in 2013. What is ZeaKal working on?

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

That's what Santa Monica-based EventUp (www.eventup.com), one of the first companies to emerge out of Santa Monica-based Science Inc. , We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. What's the biggest thing you've learned so far in launching the company? is trying to figure out.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

Tools available to food service companies include a branded mobile app, website integration with online ordering, and full menu ordering capability through Facebook. There is an exciting future ahead for this company.”

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Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

It depends on the size of the company. A recent study by the RAND Corporation found that about 60% of employees who work at companies with 50 or fewer workers currently have an offer of health benefits from their employers. Companies can claim the credit for 2010 through 2013 and for any two years after that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The bad news is that patent trolls (non-producing companies that make their money from licensing patents) can squeeze the lifeblood out of unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the recent mess around Lodsys suing small Apple IOS developers. Then you need to repeat the process for every country of interest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

Venture capital dispensed quarterly to startups actually declined again in the first quarter of 2013 to $6.3 New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies. More are realizing that they have forgotten how to build innovative companies, so they are going back to their roots, when firms were smaller and more nimble.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 30% increase in privacy breaches in 2013, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay).

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Tech.Co

MAY 24, 2017

In April 2013, four months after giving birth to my son, I did just that. Three and a half years later, my company has 130 employees and is closing in on $20M in revenue in 2016. When you start a company, you want to be next to people who are rooting for you and are proud of you. I had to start my own business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

After careful planning and working with major institutions of nnovation here, companies, and community leaders, we launched Innovate Pasadena in 2013. We had a great launch and have seen great success, which has validated the fact that there is a lot of pent up demand for an organization here.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

Today that changes as two major brands Callaway and Uber, partner to offer on-demand rides at one of the largest events in sports. During this year’s 2013 US Open patrons will be able to request a ride via Uber to and from the tournament sites at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

Alex and James founded EdgeCast, which sold to Verizon for more than $350M in 2013. Alex is CEO and Segil is President of the new company, which is focused on access control and management. What drove you to start new company and get back into the startup game? You guys did pretty well selling Edgecast to Verizon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 06/13/2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

Vic Belonogoff: We are a digital publishing company. When we took over the site, it was more of a debate site, and we started building content and more of a social feel on the site starting in 2013. Demand Media made a business out of that. Tell us about Render Media? When you say social channels, what does that mean to you?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Mostly, no.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. If you really want to do a product business then hire a professional manager for your services company, quit that job and focus 100% on your product company. You’re a small fish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Yet the 2013 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. found in polling more than 1,000 professionals at companies nationwide, that 56% had participated in not only a friendship, but an office romance, and only 9% think that office romances are never acceptable. Or they really don’t want to share their personal life details.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. His main company Providence Holdings has invested in real estate and several small businesses. Two great companies! We caught up with the CEO William Zell.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After quietly lobbying for Rapid City to become a host city since 2006, she made it onto the agenda to give a formal presentation at ICPC 2013 in St. Arguably, the Adelaide Convention Centre will not host an event as complex and demanding as IAC for a long time to come,” said Brett Biddington, former CEO of IAC 2017. “To

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. What has been the biggest milestone the company has achieved so far? I was just working on the company. her joint effort with her co-founder and brother, Adam Polak.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. What investor would put money into a company and then agree a price later based on success? million cap I am assuming when I write the check that I will own 10% of your company. Investors call Bull Cap.

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