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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We work with those companies, who tend to know a lot about what happens with their product in the retail sense, but who tend to lose track of what is happening with their products on the Internet. The first piece of this is getting really great visibility of the landscape of e-commerce. Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's a comprehensive bucket. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. It''s not just mobile, it''s also e-commerce. With e-commerce, it''s a whole separate value proposition. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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MAY 11, 2010

We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company. Jody--an experienced entrepreneur who was most recently co-founder of a firm he sold to the Virgin Group, and has been involved with such firms as Lycos, Buydirect.com, and Xoom--told us the story of EcoMom, plus how he connected with McClure on the investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

I think that the thought was, if we want to apply to an accelerator in LA, we should have a company has that as relevant focus there. Those were companies like Maker Studios, disrupting the traditional production of content. We have had a relatively consistent pattern of successfully raising follow on funding for our companies.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

That's why we exist, and why we are a company, to help consumers figure out that fundamental question. That realization set forth our current business strategy, which is to create a portfolio of vertical shopping sites which allow consumers to discover and be passionate about categories they are interested in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is convinced that his or her idea could be the next big startup, blossoming into a billion dollar unicorn. Most trend watchers agree that it is time for a revolutionary new category of medicine treatment devices and customized healthcare solutions. Satisfy a “higher purpose” as well as a current need.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. So, where's the company now?

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JANUARY 25, 2012

I started a couple of different manufacturing companies in the home furnishings industry, primarily a manufacturer of products for stores like Ikea, Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel, and Restoration Hardware. What has evolved over the past year or so, is I've been seeing that the e-commerce business is very strong. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

The diligence and tireless effort paid off and as a result came a hand-selected class 75 future entrepreneurs eager to begin their next adventure in life and to eventually join on with a local startup. Something a “corporate” job would not do.) great jobs.

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JULY 5, 2017

It's fairly unusual to see an apparel company with venture backing, and particularly unusual to see one with the strong lineup of investors that LA-based Jaanuu (www.jaanuu.com) has behind the company. I moved down here to work as a large, $10 billion private equity fund with Ron Burkle, at Yucaipa Companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 13, 2011

I heard a lot of pitches from companies hoping to help us at the NBA solve this problem, but none of them directly addressed the issue without risking the brand of our teams and the cannibalization of full priced tickets. How did your company get its initial funding? Do you keep up with other companies doing similar things?

Startup 92

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

Kyle: Andrea, tell me a little about yourself: Andrea: Right out of College I worked as an assistant buyer for May company in Boston. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? – lol.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

The company's CEO and founder, Shivani Siroya , talked to us recently about the startup and what it's doing. Shivani Siroya: Tala is a data company that is working in emerging markets. We can see marchan transactions, and if they are making e-commerce transactions, if they are paying things at small kiosks. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company? It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. Who are you targeting with this -- buyers at companies?

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SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Hale Boggs: Think of Manatt Digital Media as a one-stop shopping for digital media companies. Peter is an entrepreneur and founded and exited four digital media companies, he is going to be building with us and bringing a capability of advising and consulting digital media from startups to big brands on their digital media strategies.

Los Angeles 84

Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You can use myfab5 to share your foodie knowledge by ranking up to five of your favorite places for any food or drink related category (e.g. If you search for pizza on myfab5, not only will we show you the places that are recommended most for pizza, we will also show you what other categories each business is ranked highly in.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. He reminds us that there was also a time when major companies like Washington Mutual, and Linen ‘n’ Things toppled. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

Entrepreneurs keep talking to me about the Internet of Things (IOT), autonomous vehicles, inter-planetary travel, and other exciting opportunities, but the majority of real plans I get seem to be “me too” variations of several common themes that have already been done too many times. No more shopping for food or cooking.

Ideas 87

Ideas Sites Social Network Startup 87

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets?

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318