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MARCH 21, 2013

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. We have several new sites, all the area of retail, travel, and mobile.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based SVnetwork (www.svnetwork.com) announced the launch of a new, Internet advertising network. Jay Samit: What we realized was that advertising, for the most part, isn't working for brands. What social media sites do you connect with? Jay, thanks for the time.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

When it's all about trading, swapping, lucky finds, and more--explains Dan Murillo , who is CEO and Founder of Little Black Bag (www.littleblackbag.com), an online e-commerce community based in Los Angeles. That's the unique aspect of the site that makes so engaging, the trading of items post-purchase. It gets quite strategic.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion.

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JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Los Angeles-based SnapCuts (www.snapcuts.com) does just that, allow users to tap into a wide collection of clips, which can be re-mixed, combined with text, and sent to your friends.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The latest to enter the scene is Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (www.startengine.com), which was created by Howard Marks and Paul Kessler. We need the resources here in Los Angeles, and not force those companies to go elsewhere.

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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. The geography between New York and Los Angeles is very different.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. For example, in Scour, you can do a search for shoes, and read comments about a specific shoe or shoe website, plus you can potentially engage users that left the comment. People are so used to the Google mold. It's pretty much been all organic.

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MAY 4, 2016

They go on to the site, list their property, including such details as address, parking, noise level, and square footage, pretty much the same as listing their house on a real estate site. Brian Tan: We make our money on advertising. There's a non-intrusive, banner ad on the site. Then, that gets uploaded to our database.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about?

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. To start out, can you describe to us where Hydra fits into the advertising network world?

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. To start out, can you describe to us where Hydra fits into the advertising network world?

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". Can you maybe give a concrete example of that? So you've rolled this out to a few sites already?

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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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JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. The objects we are focused on are out-of-home advertising. Who uses your service, and why?

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APRIL 1, 2010

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Burstly (www.burstly.com) announced that it had raised $1.8M You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. I've been in the ad network business, helping Adconian, and know the web site publishing world. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. My background, is I'm from Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

To try to take advantage of those links, Los Angeles-based AutoStream (www.autostream.com) has developed software which makes those links to videos interactive, embedding an inline video player to keep users engaged on those forums. Our model is advertising, and we have people like Sony, Top Gear UK, and other pending campaigns.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. A lot of it was around stability.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Sara Bordo: I started working on the brand side at Estee Lauder in New York, and DDB in Chicago doing advertising. I came to Los Angeles 7 years ago, and worked for a small entertainment marketing firm. Everything on a page on our site is not only about engagement but transactions.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content.

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JUNE 28, 2010

I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). I’ve already started the business modeling. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area.

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JULY 26, 2010

Venture Capitalists, Marketing VP's, Angel Investors, and Hot Tech Startup's are just a few examples of attendees all looking to make a connection and help better the community. How about VC/Angel advice? The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) will have a spot on the floor where you can pull up a chair and have a discussion.

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JULY 25, 2012

One way is through Insteegram (www.insteegram.com) , a service recently launched by Los Angeles-based Rnddr Labs, which allows users to buy their own Instagram images printed onto a high quality T-shirt. Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site. has been a reliance on advertising revenue.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based Tibesti (www.tibesti.com) is launching its new social shopping site this morning. We do no advertising on that part of the site, and make sure it is fair and balanced. For example, the $30 million dollar bikini, the $1.8 What is your audience, and who are you looking to attract to the site?

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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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MAY 11, 2009

We caught up with Ricardo Solar, the firm's CEO, to learn more about the site. There is an area on the web site, called the Simon Community, where the decisions you post are public. What's the business model behind the site? What's your background, and why did you start the site? What's the idea behind LetSimonDecide?

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last week, Savings.com , the online coupon site based in Los Angeles, made a big move into the world of grocery store coupons, from its existing business providing coupon codes and deals for the online world. Another factor, was the large number of people searching our site for grocery coupons, something we didn''t have.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We've been in discussions with news organizations to use the platform, including with large organizations and journalism sites.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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