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MAY 4, 2011

One of the stealthiest Los Angeles startups to emerge in the last few months has been Namesake (www.namesake.com), headed by Brian Norgard and co-founded by Dan Gould. Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

To better understand exactly where EV technology is today, we caught up with Caradoc Ehrenhalt , the CEO and founder of a Los Angeles startup, EV Safe Charge (www.evsafecharge.com), to chat a bit about his view of where EV charging technology today. It turned out, that was definitely the case, and that's how the company was created.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. What does your startup do? What's your background, and how did the startup come about? Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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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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APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier? What is Gloss Network? Lolita Carrico: I think so.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. One of the clients we started working with was TeleNav. They started running campaigns with us, and were excited about the performance, and started talking about ways to work closer together.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. SocialEngine is four years old, and that's the startup we applied to TechStars with.

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APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. Because of that, I indirectly ended up with a good amount of shares in Twitter.

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JULY 20, 2011

She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago. As a result, consumers would go away after they hit that information.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine. This year, we were lucky enough to find 40 great startups to invest in, growing StartEngine immensely. I don't even know where to start. Obviously, I would start with Apple and their constantly growing revenue stream.

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MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. Broadcast, by definition, is broader than search. The premise is that this was a forward auction, and it's a disappointment to broadcasters if the prices don't go up.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. What's your background, and how did you start this? Sara Bordo: I started working on the brand side at Estee Lauder in New York, and DDB in Chicago doing advertising.

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MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutleier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. To start, why don't you describe how your mobile ads work?

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MARCH 21, 2013

Debra Domeyer: Number one, we're definitely showing leadership in mobile innovation. We're doing targeted advertising, including ads hypertargeted based on geolocation, and also doing local search on specific devices. With app marketing, instead of an advertisement, we're showing and application ad to mobile users.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

If you've ever used one of the more popular, mobile dating apps, you are probably used to the endless, back-and-forth texting that occurs when everyone is sizing each other up and deciding if they do, or do not, want to actually go on a date. Mitch Kahan: With out app, the locations are set up in advance. I wanted to date faster.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. What is BakeSpace?

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MARCH 16, 2015

On our marketplace, a brand can sign up in thirty seconds, and request video endorsements, which goes out to the dashboard of YouTubers. However, those MCNs really only deal with larger talent and so they have pretty high starting budgets. We''re definitely moving towards that. There was no real easy process to do it.

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On the flip side of that, we're working with advertisers, reaching young or predominately young, high engaged audiences with their products, through branded content and other strategies, to help those advertisers reach and engage this audience. How did you start the company? It's pretty broad. He was perfect to go into this.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

What's the story on how the site started? In contrast to a lot of companies, we're still a relatively small startup--it's just myself and my brother, but it supports both of us full time and profitable. Berkeley in 2005, and right after that I started working on the site. I have a background in computer science.

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MAY 4, 2016

For our startup interview today, we have an interview with Wrapal (www.wrapal.com), a new startup developing an online marketplace to help film-makers find filming locations, and helping property owners--both residential and commercial--make their properties available for films, commercials, television, and more.

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JUNE 1, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Clark Benson , CEO and Founder of Ranker (www.ranker.com), on how the firm is looking to harness that same force to power its own startup, which offers up a way for users to create their own ranked lists of pretty much anything. How long has the site been up and running?

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. Clinton Foy: That depends on your definition of big. So, what is the most exciting thing you see coming up in e-sports? That's what's exciting about this.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

We're definitely one of the larger players in the market, but we're still completely independent. Josh Yguado We're starting only in the UK, and we're going to expand from there. Everything we produce is free to play, and there's also an advertising component. How did you end up focusing there? READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2016

Los Angeles-based Gatsby (www.thinkgatsby.com) has come up with a way to combine both ways to promote social sharing, as well as reduce shopping cart abandonment, via discounts which change depending on your social influence and sharing activity. Brett Bernstein: With Twitter, there are a number of data points we are able to pull fro the API.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace.

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JUNE 15, 2011

We caught up with CEO Eric Frankel this week to talk about the firm, his decision to go from the comfortable world of Hollywood as President of Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, to a startup, how the firm is using the cloud to power it service, as well as where the firm is going next. At the time, it seemed easy.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Our biggest task in starting the company, was creating a way to find the best content. Our best known and first product was the KidZui browser, which we started as a paid service, went freemium, and went entirely free in October of 2010. Our goal, is to give them access to that great content. It goes both ways.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Let's start, and why don't you tell us what you are looking for in a pitch? If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible.

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