Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

While iPhone is really still the only true game in town for mobile applications investors can see in the near future a world in which multiple mobile applications platforms will likely exist – perhaps with Blackberry, Palm Pre and Google’s Android operating system gather more momentum. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

AvantStay — which has built a platform where it decorates and then lists properties owned by others for people to rent out for vacations or other short-term stays — has raised $160 million in a Series B round of funding. “It has always lagged hotels by a wide margin.

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socalTECH

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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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

MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

He was in the inaugural class of 500Startups and became chief evangelist as far as I could tell. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living. ” Um … are you here to play or to talk?! Months later I did agree with Christine Tsai that I would come out and talk to the class.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. 8 ) Click-to-call has been around for years, yet RingRevenue has secured non-exclusive relationships with the five largest affiliate networks.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We''ve now branched off to connecting service providers and utilities, providing a home to cloud platform. Greg Memo: What we have, is a platform which securely connects things to the Internet. What our platform does, it is connects them to the cloud and a base service, for energy management, home automation, and media services.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. Market Opportunity. But what about markets?

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform. It should include all of your communications, no matter what social network, and no matter who on your team has done it. Google Apps does not need to be a CRM system today, or even a social business platform. It's not efficient.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based Naritiv , a new startup developing a network of content creators for Snapchat, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company said Thursday. The startup--founded by Dan Altmann and Eric Posen--says it is enabling the creation of mobile-first content for Snapchat and other social network platforms.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab. So we've partnered and worked with technology partners, and built a technology company to develop applications for ourselves and third party platforms.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2010

When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2015

However, that process really hasn''t taken advantage of today''s mobile, always-connected, socially networked world. It''s meant to help moms get stuff done quickly, by leveraging their network. Staci Miller: The idea we like to compare it to, is Angie''s List and Yelp meets Facebook. Why did you start the company?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. The goal for this is for this to be a collaborative network for entrepreneurs and investors, so it's never going to be expensive. How do you do that? Jackson: It's free, for now.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. Babette Pepaj: BakeSpace is a food social network and recipe swap. So very much a social network involved? I took a cake decorating class, and I loved it.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

Our initial apps have been around distribution automation or distribution monitoring, such as monitoring distribution lines and figuring out when they go down, particularly in areas not covered by cellular or other wireless networks, and which are hard to reach. Lots of vendors are looking at cell phone networks as being nearly ubiquitous.

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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. A certified executive coach, Anna works with her portfolio companies to build great teams, develop a sound strategy and create a strong network.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

We have a top 10 engineering school, a top computer science department, and research going on in everything from big data, mobile platforms, artificial intelligence, B2B, B2C. That triad gives us a very broad set of expertise and a network. We have a very large Ph.D. There''s a very broad range of scientific expertise.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

There's a volume of data, plenty of it, including information coming from sensor networks, machine-generated stuff, and lots of unstructured data such as MRIs, X-rays, tweets, and everything else, which everyone is trying to make sense of. Plus, we haven't had to many problems finding a team here, there's lots of world class people here.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2015

The investments went to One Month , which offers online entrepreneurship classes; Rallyteam , an employee talent networking platform; Strive , which is developing tools to help source qualified software developers; and Workpop , a developer of software to help match employers and job candidates.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect today unveiled the latest version of its social network for marketers with an open API for developers. GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. Venture Funding.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the company is launching a true crime podcast, to tap into another potentially high-growth market, on the iHeartMedia and Apple platforms. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2012

Gary Beer is a longtime film industry insider, having been Managing Director of the Sundance Film Festival from its beginnings until 1999 , and founder documentary cable programming service Smithsonian Networks, which he started while he was CEO of the business enterprises of the Smithsonian Institution.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. Tom Grasty: There are, as I like to say, no shortage of online video editing platforms, online video editors, or social networking sites, even though there are fewer online editors now than eighteen months ago.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

Industry-specific networking site Kaleio , has partnered with Indeed.com to include both national and international job listings within the Kaleio Marketplace in a move that is expected to make it a one-stop professional networking and business tool for students and the non-executive workforce. Below is our interview in detail.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). AdSonar’s advertising platform applied proprietary semantic algorithms to automatically serve the most relevant ads to each particular content page. But, Quigo succeeded in licensing AdSonar to Overture.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Building on top of platforms. What does Joel think about building applications on the Twitter platform?

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I'm looking forward to opening up new markets, including the expansion of family offices and other traditional investors to the amazing asset class that cryptocurrency has become. What are you looking forward to most in 2018? Aside from $50,000 bitcoin?

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

We could still deliver applicants and deliver passive job seekers to a company, but we could also delivery applicants that already understood what the cultur of the company was, and be able to measure the kind of footprint people were making on a social network. Your finance has to be world class. That's been very effective.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. How excited am I likely to be when I see a plan for a new generation of buggy whip, or another me-too social network? Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. entrepreneur” and by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, David is a former Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

He worked his ass off and delivered an amazing technical infrastructure to support a “big data meets social analytics” platform that could be used by any developer. Do we price for volume of consumption or for enterprise integration with other platforms? But we did offer Jonathan his second gut check.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Great companies like BeachMint that are growing at a rapid clip have to dig deep into their networks to meet hiring needs. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ).

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