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AUGUST 11, 2014

to $1M per quarter to the company. He also has served at IAC/Citysearch, prior to headin gup Ticketmaster. Demand Media co-founder and current Interim CEO Shawn Colo becomes President of the company, and also joins Demand Media''s board.

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JULY 23, 2014

According to the enterprise software company, it has named Alain Avakian as its CTO. Avakian joins the company from Rent.com, where he had been for thirteen years; he had been one of the first employees of Rent.com, having been at the company both through its acquisition by eBay and its acquisition by TPG/RentPath.

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CTO Hire Chief Technology Officer CitySearch Ticketmaster 138

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

In the latest cuts among Silicon Beach's high tech community, CityGrid , which runs Citysearch, Insider Pages, and Urbanspoon--has laid off a chunk of its staff, including a significant number of Los Angeles employees. The cuts come on the heels of cuts at BeachMint, ShoeDazzle, and Cooking.com.

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CitySearch Layoffs SoCalTech High Tech 217

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AUGUST 24, 2012

A list of the top ten cities for startups was released by USA Today and the National Venture Capital Association today, naming both Los Angeles and San Diego among the best cities for startup companies.

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San Diego Los Angeles Break.com CitySearch 188

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

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. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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JULY 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based online ticket marketplace ScoreBig.com is bolstering its executive team today, saying it has named two new VPs to help drive growth at the company. According to ScoreBig, it saw 600 percent revenue growth in 2012, and the expansion will help grow the company further.

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CitySearch Ticketmaster Entertainment Los Angeles 183

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APRIL 25, 2013

According to Suster, Moonfrye ''s CEO is Kary Nortman, who formerly ran Citysearch and UrbanSpoon for IAC. The company has yet to launch its first products. The new startup revealed today that it has raised $2.5M READ MORE>>. capital venture frye moon soleil brewster punky ecommerce celebrity moonfrye'

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Activity GRP Partners CitySearch Commerce 178

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MARCH 17, 2010

The startup, whose founders have served at such firms as CitySearch, Stamps.com, Rent.com, and ThisNext, said it provides a service which allows users to post to multiple, free job boards with one submission. The site had been running in a closed beta for the last three months.

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Sites CitySearch Santa Monica Startup 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The firm said that Morrow also joined the company's board. He also had served at EVP at Citysearch, in addition to time at CNET Networks. Los Angeles-based Luxury Link Travel Group , the firm which runs Luxury Link, Family Getaway, and Vacationist, has tapped former Oversee.net CEO Scott Morrow as its new CEO.

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Oversee.net CitySearch Los Angeles Sales 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. Kara said “no” because she wanted to start her own company, which she did and I backed. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

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AUGUST 28, 2013

and Citysearch, who had been targeted by Humankind, to help those companies determine if they need to take action to protect their own consumers. Edmunds.com said it is also working with fifteen other review sites, including Google+, Yelp, Foursquare, Yahoo!

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Edmunds CitySearch Santa Monica Yahoo 140

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APRIL 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Goldstar , the half price ticketing and event promotion service, has tapped Matt Coffin , Sean Moriarty , and Neil Patrick Harris as advisors, the company said Tuesday. The company offers up half-price tickets and other promotions on events, helping venues to fill up seats and get the word out about upcoming events.

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CitySearch Ticketmaster Pricing Demand 170

Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.

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Idealab Paid Search CitySearch Resource 70

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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Venture Capital Startup Outsource Development CitySearch 408

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We sat down with Brian McCarthy , SVP of Dentistry.com (www.dentistry.com), a startup within a much larger company Futuredontics, which itself is a part of a big company called Sirona. Brian McCarthy: We're somewhat different than the companies that you usually interview, as we're effectively a startup inside an existing company.

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Startup CitySearch Outsource Development Organization 113

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MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. They are looking for coders, roboticist, marketing managers, and community managers, to fill the areas of their Green Tech, Social Media, Big Data, and Enterprise companies. Participating Companies. .

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Idealab CitySearch Social Media Pasadena 95

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. 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. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. Let me not bury the lede.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire GRP Partners 359

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

How did the company start? Scot Richardson: I spent the previous eight years as a live comedy promoter, which grew into a live comedy promotion company, the largest in the country, ComedyJuice. So, how long has the company been around? Ticket companies have basically treated customers like they were theirs, and no the venues.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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JUNE 1, 2015

Los Angeles-based Boingo (www.boingo.com) is one of longest standing Internet companies. But, we've really evolved into a wireless infrastructure company. So is that the biggest growth area for the company? >. What's Boingo's business look like nowadays? Dave Hagan: Our business has evolved quite a bit since we last talked.

Startup 100

Startup Networking CitySearch Ticketmaster 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. When did you get involved with the company? My mandate coming on was to scale the company to reach its full potential. This company fit that profile exactly.

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Pricing Sites Marketing Oversee.net 256

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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Pasadena CalTech Santa Monica Technical Review 242

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Messenger : Ian Siegel , Co-Founder |CEO ZipRecruiter , Former Executive Product and Technology roles at: MyLife, CitySearch, Stamps.com, Rent.com and Pictage. If there are 10 things that make a company successful, you’re only accountable for 1 – 4 of them as an executive. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Become a Founder!

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MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 160

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Messenger : Ian Siegel , Co-Founder |CEO ZipRecruiter , Former Executive Product and Technology roles at: MyLife, CitySearch, Stamps.com, Rent.com and Pictage. If there are 10 things that make a company successful, you’re only accountable for 1 – 4 of them as an executive. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Become a Founder!

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MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Whatever you’re trying to brand – your company, your community or yourself – this is the first exercise I would recommend that you start with. We’ll work our asses off and build huge companies that will define the next generation of American’s lives.” This is the list I would start with. And for me.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Santa Monica 304

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: A team from OKCupid works out of the space, as well as a few of the best civic-focused tech companies in LA. Product Development: philosophie.

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Startup Snapchat Social Media Venice 111

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

Yet in LA we have hugely successful entrepreneurs who have built big companies like Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, TicketMaster.com, LowerMyBills, Commission Junction, eHarmony and on and on. We have amazing large companies that are an important part of the future of the Internet such as Disney, Warner, Fox, Universal, etc.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Sam Rogoway: One thing we've done, and spent a lot of time on as a company, is cultivating a community of talented filmmakers.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Startup Product 150

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

The company was founded by the head of the North America investments for Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world, the head of the retail banking practice at DLJ, the investment bank. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. Those companies are doing phenomenally well, and in a normal market was IPO.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? LowerMyBills, Inc.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

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Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2012

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net , the online domain name and Internet marketing firm, has set Debra Domeyer and Scott Morrow as Co-CEOs of the company, the firm said Monday. Both have been heading up Oversee.net's operations since shortly before Jeff Kupietzky left the company last year, to relocate to Israel for family reasons.

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Oversee.net CitySearch Internet Brands Los Angeles 133

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. magazine and the LA Business Journal. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

The company said the API converts Factual's own IDs into third party identifiers and URLs, and vice versa. Los Angeles-based Factual , the big data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, said last night that it has launched a new API into beta.

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CitySearch Yahoo Los Angeles Google 182

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. To be clear we will continue to see great infrastructure companies built and these will mostly come from Silicon Valley. All great communication companies.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313