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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile credit startup Float , which is developing an iOS app to provide credit to consumers, has been selected as part of the commerce-focused startup accelerator Commerce.Innovated. Commerce.Innovated said this is its fourth class for the accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Tapping into a growing consumer interest in higher quality, and more traceable food, it saw an opportunity to build a platform to link up producers to the consumers, restaurants and grocery stores that were buying their products. software platform. “I am focused on the food supply chain,” Xu said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

Dev Bhatia: You can think of them as lots of different platforms and devices. It''s not just mobile, it''s also e-commerce. With e-commerce, it''s a whole separate value proposition. With e-commerce, it''s a whole separate value proposition. The conversion rates go up, when e-commerce sites deploy instant search.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I thought it would be interesting to raise a tranche of money, to have a platform where we could incubate our own concepts, work with the best entrepreneurs around, and build new businesses. They're unlike us, in that we're not program or class based, and we're not going to be pumping out companies every three months. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2012

Michelle Crames: It's a platform where retailers can do their own, private label versions of something like Gilt Groupe, Groupon, or a curated event. There is a lot of commerce that still happens in stores, with more than 90 percent of sales in physical retailers. When you say frenzy, and what do you mean?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model , where the machine is capable of creating new text, images and videos based on simple human input. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Here in LA we ran three programs this year - Techstars Music, the Cedars Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars, and the inaugural class of Techstars LA, which invests across all verticals. Those three LA programs alone invested in a total of 38 companies this year. What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017?

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. When did you create the business?

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

That's actually borne fruit in our first class. We're also looking at mobile, because of the presence of Qualcomm and a huge body of talent around mobile, and social commerce, because of our success in social commerce, most recently with BeachMint, ShoeDazzle, and others. LA is geographically diverse, and distributed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. Other deals. Big market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. It's a curated marketplace, with best-in-class products and experiences.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. Finally, what's your prediction on what will be most important thing for the technology industry in the coming year?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. What exactly is FatCloud? The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering. People from San Francisco, Detroit, and elsewhere have requested that we duplicate or take the platform and brand, and incorporate it into their city and towns or suburban neighborhood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2014

The in-flight demonstration took place on a new American Airlines Airbus A321 Transcontinental (A321T), featuring three classes of service, individual AC power outlets and USB jacks available at every seat throughout the aircraft as well as Gogo’s upgraded ATG-4 Wi-Fi service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2014

You can start a new e-Commerce site on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Top CEO’s, entrepreneurs, technology gurus, venture capitalists and executives will be looking at the tech ecosystem from different perspectives, including e-commerce, enterprise software, digital media and consumer technologies.” That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. Learn how to get it seen and monetized from Mike Tringe, previously of Blip Networks and Vuguru, Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform. For example, Innovate ND operates at several entrepreneurial centers offering bootcamp-type classes with expense reimbursement grants. For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 Another local company, CoSchedule , just attracted $2.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

This will also drive mobile usage and the growth of industries such as e-commerce and fintech, with a focus on streamlining and online task management integration tools supporting business use. As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2015

The program will feature four master classes each year, giving groups of 12 to 15 rising industry leaders an opportunity to learn directly from experts on specialized topics in areas such as business development, marketing, engineering, and product management. million per company.

Los Angeles 40

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A membership program for Sports Fields, Gyms, Fitness Classes. Predictive automation that powers modern logistics & commerce. Once he slept on a horse during a horse-riding class! Moveha is a housing platform that helps students find off campus housing and make reservations online. Clicky, Inc. . AngelList: [link].

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a study by the US Department of Commerce , women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more money than women in non-STEM positions. We have been privileged to be able to develop our products and curriculum in Arlington with input from the girls using them, and [shared] our products and classes with disadvantaged schools,” Sanden said. “We

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Jen is currently Head of Product and oversees the Engineering team at Big Frame where she defined, managed and launched Big Frame’s web platform. Steve currently manages Fandango’s web and mobile commerce platforms.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. The platforms often get paid fees. The platforms often get free carry. None of these.

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