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DECEMBER 4, 2020

For our interview today, we spoke with Darren Litt , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based MarketerHire , an online marketplace focused on connecting companies with marketing talent. 500 business, and number one in the media category. What is MarketerHire? I grew that to around 200 people, and it was a two time, Inc.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Richard Wolpert is a well known investor in the Los Angeles technology community, through his own fund, Chance Technologies; as a Venture Partner at Amplify.LA I have sold companies of my own, companies I have invested in, and helped companies I've run or invested in with corporate development partnerships to help their business.

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MARCH 23, 2015

While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment.

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MAY 28, 2013

To bring that ability to name your own price on products, Los Angeles-based Greentoe (www.greentoe.com) recently launched, allowing consumers to name their own price to retailers of everything from electronics to baby products. Way back in early 2000, I invested in Priceline, because I always liked that model and have been a fan of it.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

To try to figure out a better model to support great content, Los Angeles-based Tubestart (www.tubestart.com) recently launched a crowdfunding site, specifically aimed at digital video and YouTube creators. We''d invested a lot of money in that, uploading clips to Youtube, and that went very well. What''s Tubestart? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. What is CareerArc?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

So he put up half the money to bring movie theaters to inner-city Los Angeles and showed that he could deliver profitable chains. And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media.

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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. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. How did you start the business? Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

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JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors.

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JUNE 11, 2013

June 19: TechZulu Penthouse at ROC: TechZulu will livestream interviews and provide a place to network. SBF Demo Day: More than a dozen curated LA startups will pitch at Cross Campus in categories including Accelerator, Startup 2.0, billion was invested in Southern California start-ups with 220 new companies launching in Los Angeles.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. People either love it our hate it.

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APRIL 13, 2011

The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“.

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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. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. How does Giftagram work?

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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. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2009

We're investing pretty heavily in people and upgrading systems and tools those folks use to do their job. So, we're happy to make those investments in our operations. Eric Hovanec: Both Steve and I are angel investors. I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. That was about three years ago.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability. Shivani Siroya: I started out pretty traditionally in investment banking, doing equity research at UBS. I ended up doing 4500 individual interviews, and quickly became a walking QuickBooks. How did you end up starting Tala? It took me 2.5 I love LA now.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web. How is the company funded?

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MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. As we continue to grow, we are adding more and more categories, all around being healthy, and making it easy for healthy choices to be easy choices. What EcoMom is all about? How did you connected with Dave McClure?

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

One Los Angeles company-- OneStop Internet (www.onestop.com) has created a growing business handling exactly that. We provide all of the categories that need to be done if you want to sell products online, at least those that are non ticket and non travel, physical products. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. Which I have shown to do, but anybody who invests in tech, invests in team. Business Mobile Startups App LA Los Angeles matt lucido porter service app TechZulu use porter utility app'

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JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. This investment round is a pretty substantial financial investment. It gives them a very good reading of the brand across the country. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix (www.acemetrix.com) launched its software-as-a-service, TV advertising rating service last month, and we spoke with the firm's CEO and co-founder, Steve Goldman, recently to learn more about the firm. Tags: software saas analytics content television advertising metrix startup interview.

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MAY 21, 2009

There's a broad set of categories, and even others we hadn't anticipated. We also have an angel investor, who invested a long time ago and is also involved with the business. Tags: dimensions darwin animation nilles brian software avatar evolver interview. You mentioned you're VC funded? They're in New York and Montreal.

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. is a good monthly investment? LA is a special place right now. Adam Goldenberg – JustFab.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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