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JULY 21, 2015

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active organized angel group,said today that it had its most active Q2, and had a record number of deals and dollars invested in the quarter. The Tech Coast Angels are not only Southern California's biggest investment group, but also one of the most active groups nationwide.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. This is why I say that Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media.

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MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Donut Media is venture backed by Techstars Ventures, 3311 Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and professional driver Ryan Tuerck.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. This keeps the event organizers aware of capacity limitations. Monday: Los Angeles – The Social City. Who Really Owns Your Social Media?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Solve Media is that. In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. So the debate in the print media world is whether or not to insert a paywall between users and content.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Access 360 Media , a New York-based digital advertising firm with operations in Los Angeles, said Wednesday that it has raised $12M more in a Series C funding round. The firm said the funding will go towards acquisitions, new hires, and organic growth.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based Digital Media Wire , the entertainment and technology conference organizer, said today that it has added Peter Levin, founder of GeekChicDaily, to its advisory board. Digital Media Wire is run by Ned Sherman. Digital Media Wire said Levin will help advise the firm on new business initiatives.

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JULY 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based influencer marketing software provider CreatorIQ said this week that it has named Max Powers as the company's new Chief Customer Officer. Powers was most recently SVP, Business Operations at TeleSign. CreatorIQ says its customers include AB Inbev, Airbnb, Calvin Klein, CVS, Disney, H&M, Sephora, and Unilever.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 9, 2020

GM’s luxury brand had planned to reveal the Lyriq on April 2 at an event in Los Angeles. Out of an abundance of caution, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the Cadillac LYRIQ reveal in Los Angeles, California on April 2 nd. Our top priority is the safety of our media guests and employees.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. What is Jukin Media?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Monday, February 6, 2012 -- Chat with Yellow Thunder Media CEO and YouTube guru Tony Chen. Tech Coast Angels. ony is the CEO of Yellow Thunder Media, a digital media agency specializing in video seeding and optimization on the YouTube platform to guarantee targeted, organic views and make videos go viral.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation.

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MARCH 19, 2020

The social media giant TikTok said that it would donate $3 million to After – School All-Stars , a charity founded by actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to feed families whose food security was affected by the close of public schools in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based BeautCon , which organizes conferences and runs a website focused on beauty and fashion as it intersects with online media, has raised $5M in a seed funding round. Rachel Zoe Ventures, Queensbridge Venture Partners, and other angels. The funding came from Hearst Corp., The company is led by Moj Mahdara.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

A big group of local, Silicon Beach startups and established tech companies have signed up to showcase the Los Angeles high technology world, according to a list released today by Silicon Beach Sunday. The Silicon Beach Sunday event is being organized by Nicole Jordan of Radix Collective and Kevin Winston of DigitalLA. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

office in Los Angeles, as part of an "aggressive" North American expansion effort by the company. Evvnt develops a software platform which helps event organizers manage and promote events across event listing sites, calendars, directories, ticketing, social networks and search engines. newspapers, and signed up its first U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Last week, the Los Angeles-based startup led by Trevor McFedries , outed itself as the collective consciousness behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela and her less well known contemporaries Blawko22 and BermudaisBae in a choreographed melodrama worthy of Los Angeles’ best reality television. ” That was a lie.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2020

Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl , a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. We throw away 80% of our content ideas, and you should too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. At minimum, that requires a modern website, and visibility on relevant social media sites, likely including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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MAY 6, 2014

A new, Los Angeles startup, HashAtIt.com has launched this morning, offering up a search engine specifically for searching for hashtag content. hashitit hashtag search engine tool searching social media twitter instagram facebook pinterest' The company said it was founded by Laurie Paolone, who was formerly the CIO of MagnaFlow.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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JULY 15, 2019

locations — Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC. Coupled with the launch of a new networking application called AllBright Connect and the company’s AllBright Magazine, the women’s networking organization is on a full-on media blitz.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Gobbler , an online media storage service focused on media creators, has raised $7.5M Gobbler provides services to back up, organize, and transfer media files like music and video. Gobbler provides services to back up, organize, and transfer media files like music and video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Based on my own experience as a mentor and angel investor, I find that as many as ninety percent of startups fail in the first five years, despite their best efforts.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

When Upfront Ventures partner Kara Nortman first met Natalie Portman a few years ago to talk about ways their non-profit organizations All Raise and Time’s Up could collaborate, she never realized they’d eventually be partners on a sports franchise. For Nortman, the story of Angel City begins with a lifetime love of sports.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Los Angeles companies are looking to help get the word out next week about their companies--and the area--at SXSW , the annual technology and music festival held in Austin, Texas, a group of companies said Wednesday.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Raising capital for a female-led startup can be very diffiult--which is what Justine Lassoff and Melinda Moore found out when they started their own company, LovingEco, in Los Angeles. We actually started the organization in 2013. Justin Lassoff: Part of our organization is we have founding advisors.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the provider of video-based, mobile marketing services, is in the midst of and expansion, including the hiring of two executives to its sales and marketing team. Ward joins from Hipcricket, where he managed client relatoins and sold mobile marketing programs to consumer brands.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At the time, it was doing Facebook media buying for e-commerce companies. And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. That being said, we work with companies of all sizes — startups, companies that are already established, and very large companies that need to rework both their creative and their media buying strategy.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Coloft , the co-working space in Santa Monica, said Wednesday that it has launched its own series of seminars aimed at startups, ranging from help on social media, to business development, to pitching investors.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based Elevator Labs , a new startup headed by ex-Virgin Digital execs Brendon Cassidy and Zack Zalon, said Thursday that it has raised $20M in an initial funding round. According to the firm, it is looking to incubate new companies in the Los Angeles area. The round came from KGC Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in the seed round of a startup, New Knowledge , which developed the artificial intelligence software which uncovered a large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. presidential elections. According to New Knowledge, it has raised $1.9M

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. After a considerable amount of market research, we created the SureToMeet system that’s now used by organizations around the country. Are you leveraging social media at all? Marketing 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In a major move for Los Angeles-based j2 Global is planning to turn over operation of the company to Vivek Shah, as current CEO Hemi Zucker plans a move to a new, venture capital investment firm called OCV Management. Zucker will join a new venture cpaital firm, OCV, which is being organized by j2's Chairman of the Board, Richard Ressler.

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MARCH 13, 2013

PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool. The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based OpenX appears to be continuing to bolster its executive ranks--and a possible IPO bid--with the naming of Tom Fuelling, the former CFO of Hulu, as its Chief Financial Officer this morning.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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