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MAY 17, 2013

According to Privlo said the new funding will go to expand on its recently pilot of its platform, which helps match up private lenders and mortgage borrowers. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said the new funding came from QED Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Chief Technology Officer CitySearch Ticketmaster Santa Monica 215

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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. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

According to the WSJ, Amazon.com has already started connecting its users with plumbers, electricians, stereo installers, and others in Los Angeles, after they purchase specific items from the e-commerce site. READ MORE>>. amazon local service referral citygrid serviz handybook pathjoy'

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MARCH 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based ZipRecruiter , a new startup focused on the online job board market, said that it has launched its service this week. Tags: ziprecruiter posting startup. The site had been running in a closed beta for the last three months. The site had been running in a closed beta for the last three months. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. 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: Their startup beach house costs a tiny fee of $20,000 per month!

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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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JUNE 27, 2013

The 17-year old firm, which also said it will open up a brand new home at the center of Silicon Beach, signing a 10-year lease for a space on 7th Street in Santa Monica. upfront ventures partners venture capital fund startup msuster suster launchpadla' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based Factual , the big data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, said last night that it has launched a new API into beta. Factual is among the most watch LA startups, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Ron Conway, and many other angels. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence. The guy has knowledge. So why Greg and why now?

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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. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2011

Coffin is the former founder of LowerMyBills.com, and is now an investor in such firms as Demand Media, Houtelook, Ad.ly, ShoeDazzle, and other startups. 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. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. CitySearch, now a part of IAC, established the category of local online community directories. Many of these companies were among the first to introduce new business ideas to the market.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

One of the continuing problems in the startup and venture market today is the issue of exit opportunities for companies, and in particular the problem of liquidity for founders. What is Startup Exchange? Michael Barton: Startup Exchange is an exchange fund, where founders, executives, anyone who owns shares outright in a company.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Technical Review 165

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. Bill Gross and Idealab have founded or advanced development of more than 75 companies including Overture Services, eSolar, UberMedia, CitySearch, Picasa and Internet Brands.

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Idealab CitySearch Social Media Pasadena 95

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JULY 16, 2013

We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. We have already spun up three program activity tracks under that model. What is Innovate Pasadena?

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Pasadena CalTech Santa Monica Technical Review 242

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JUNE 1, 2015

The company recently moved into brand new, 50,000 square foot headquarters in Westwood, so we thought it would be great to catch up with Boingo CEO, Dave Hagan , to learn a little bit more about the company's journey from startup to publicly traded company over the past 14 years. They were really a thriving, early market.

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socalTECH

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". We picked up a bunch of blogs, emailed them, and have gotten a really good response rate.

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JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. And on and on.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. Nice sweep!

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire GRP Partners 359

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? 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. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. Tags: Startup Advice. But don’t confuse results with how you get there.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

We caught up with Sam Rogoway , the firm's CEO--and the former founder of TripUp, which is now part of Kayak--to hear about how the firm is hoping to revolutionize the local business video market with its services, which just launched last month. We've also found that online video really helps with search engine optimization.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Startup Product 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

And luckily I was able to catch up with Valerie Brennan the CEO and Co-Founder of Three Day Rule for some Q & A. Back in college, I started throwing large events for charities and such. While being a lawyer during the day, by night I was starting and working on the Three Day Rule. Val, tell me a little about yourself.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

And luckily I was able to catch up with Talia Goldstein the Head Matchmaker and Co-Founder of Three Day Rule for some Q & A. I grew up in Orange County and then headed east to Tulane University. Val and I started this single’s website/blog just for fun and on the side. Soon after launching it started really taking off.

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Santa Monica Startup Beverly Hills Orange County 74

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. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. startup scene so hot. a great place for startups?

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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. I’ll take the second half of your question first and say I strongly recommend that all would-be entrepreneurs work their way up to running their own business.

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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. I’ll take the second half of your question first and say I strongly recommend that all would-be entrepreneurs work their way up to running their own business.

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MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 157

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. Mark Suster: Let's start at the 50,000 foot level, then I'll segue into that question.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. How did the company start? Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010. What is Laughstub?

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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. We set up a series of international, localized websites, so that we could market our European inventory through websites in France with.FR, Germany.

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Pricing Sites Marketing Oversee.net 256

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. 27 on the list of Most Valuable Startups. I’d say yes.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Shopping.com.

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Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. Does it Make Sense for Other Startups? Take a look at Startup Metrics. The same value proposition applies.

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Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Start by trying to narrowing the list of total prospective VCs. As I like to say, in the era of social networks and transparency if you can’t figure out how to get introduced to a VC then hang up your cleats now. Maybe up to 6 hours. DO NOT show up at a VC meeting unprepared. Tell a friend! So let me be clear.

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