socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

Santa Monica-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast announced this morning that it has won blogging site Wordpress.com and blog search site Technorati. Tags: hosting blog technorati wordpress edgecast. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Cornertone OnDemand, a provider of software-as-a-service tools for human resources management, said this week that it has added new social networking features to the firm's product. The new product provides online communities, user profiles, blogs, and wiki features for business collaboration.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

ContentNext--which had been founded by Rafat Ali in Santa Monica, and eventually sold in July of 2008 to Guardian News and Media--publishes paidContent, mocoNews.net, paidContent:UK, and contentSutra.com. million pageviews; the network has 808,000 uniques, and 1.67 million pageviews; the network has 808,000 uniques, and 1.67

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2012

Funk- has plenty of experience on the other side of the table as a venture capitalist, having funded such successful SoCal firms as Sandpiper Networks, Rent.com and Shopzilla. My hometown of Santa Monica and the surrounding region have surged onto the national landscape in the past 12 months as a hotbed of startup activity.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2013

However, DogVacay , the Santa Monica-based startup which offers up an online service to help connect dog owners with people to watch their pets, has a secret weapon -- cute dog and puppy photos. It''s almost always difficult to get people to share information about your startup to the world.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

I have to admit when I first walked through the doors of the Los Angeles Convention Center to attend Blog World I asked myself why I was wasting my time. Yet “another networking event”. That’s when it occurred to me how foolish I was to be diluting the value of any conference and especially this experience at Blog World.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally. It’s just math.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a - 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

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Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Santa Monica-based Intent.com said Thursday that it has launched a new web site focused on wellness and social networking. The site--which was co-founded by Deepak Chopra's daughter, Mallika Chopra--said it is looking to create a community of like-minded members, blogs from wellness experts, and other curated online content.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the venture funded web-document sharing firm run by Jason Nazar, has connected the firm's document sharing service with Facebook and Twitter updates.

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Rustic Canyon Santa Monica Social Network Blogging 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). What is CHNL?

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media firm run by former Userplane founder Michael Jones, said Monday that it has officially launched a new web site focused on searching the popular Twitter micro-blogging service. The firm had soft-launched the site in late December. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2009

Search for Jen Raymond and you’ll get 2 of them – neither one is the Jen Raymond who works for Pfizer and lives in Santa Monica. While you’re at it put in a link (if you don’t blog or want to link to your company at least link to your LinkedIn or Facebook profile). Second is Jen Raymond. Anything.

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Tips Social Media Social Network Santa Monica 216

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Santa Monica-based Goodreads, a social networking site focused on book readers, said today that it has rolled out a new feature which allows users to provide status updates. The new feature also allows user to synchronize the status with Facebook and Twitter.

Userplane 100

Userplane Santa Monica Social Network Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Microsoft's MSN, and Santa Monica-based media firm BermanBraun Interactive said today that they have rolled out a new celebrity news site called WonderWall , which will feature information on what the companies described as the "hottest" pop culture stories, personalities, and trends.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool. I'm hoping that Baron and Kurt come up with one that's in Santa Monica / West LA. Any sort of networking that gives more context is a plus in my book. What are you working on now?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. In other words, it uses what is happening: with the content out in the network with searches that land on the site, what happens when people visit the site, and various other kinds of behaviors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. 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. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper.

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Read more: PaidContent.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Los Angeles has seen its own startup scene develop with Silicon Beach, which stretches between Santa Monica and Playa Vista. Some of the standout technology innovators include: ClippPR : ClippPR provides businesses with a simple way to track any type of online activity — press releases, videos, blog mentions, etc.

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Social Network Social Media Press Technical Review 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. Enter phone calls. We love to streamline and text people. Not so fast.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Technology Council

JULY 24, 2008

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Technology Council Southern California Blogging Technology 100

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant? In late 2007, Chi.mp

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Soon I moved towards TV and worked at large networks like, VH1, CMT, and E! Val and I started this single’s website/blog just for fun and on the side. We started out with our first event at South Bar (in Santa Monica) with about 30 people in attendance. Entertainment. While at E!, So it grew really fast.

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Santa Monica Startup Beverly Hills Orange County 74

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. His picture of all of the different elements you have to deal with infrastructure (network, storage, os, db, etc.), The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

We've got a network which can deal with anything that might come up. Aaron Hirschorn: Currently, our investors are Science, based in Santa Monica, and also Ted Rheingold, who was the founder and CEO of Dogster.com. Our approach is really to go city by city so that we can be sure to provide. Tell us a bit about the launch?

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

We've got a network which can deal with anything that might come up. Aaron Hirschhorn: Currently, our investors are Science, based in Santa Monica, and also Ted Rheingold, who was the founder and CEO of Dogster.com. Our approach is really to go city by city so that we can be sure to provide. Tell us a bit about the launch?

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. Our members don’t just get great deals; they also connect with a supportive network of engaged and recent brides who help them navigate the wedding-planning process. When was Recycled Bride founded and where is it based? Business Model?

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Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. He blogs here and tweets here. a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby. Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc. as a senior vice president of AOL.

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