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JANUARY 2, 2020

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. Their goal is to partner in really unique ways with entrepreneurs, accelerators and investors, to create businesses and brands in new categories for P&G. What's the best way for women to get over that hurdle of building a network?

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Bay area venture capital firm Mayfield Fund appears to be eyeing more investments in the Los Angeles area, with the addition of Sean Moriarty , the former CEO of Ticketmaster, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the firm. Mayfield said it hopes to "tap innovative networks in Los Angeles" by working with Moriarty, who is located here.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. And I'm hoping to do fewer meetings and spend more time reading and thinking.

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JULY 12, 2012

A new, Los Angeles-based startup creating luxury t-shirts, Teeology.com , appears to be gearing up for a launch today, with the backing of celebrity Jennifer Lopez, plus tech entrepreneurs Brian Lee and MJ Eng.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. TX Zhuo: I started my own business out of college, an e-commerce company.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Essentially, we are giving the control back to them on the e-commerce channel, to make sure they are making the right sales, to the right places, to the right people, and to lock down an optimized sales channel through their partners. The first piece of this is getting really great visibility of the landscape of e-commerce.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants. We have standing agreements to drive revenue share from all of those merchants in our network. What does that look like? How did you run into this opportunity?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Is your cell phone the secret to fixing e-commerce''s problem with abandoned shopping carts? We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. So this is for e-commerce sites, not in person purchases?

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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. One, is we'll come up wit our own ideas, and work with really early stage entrepreneurs in-house. We'll do only a few every year. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 11, 2010

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. When raising money, you look to meet with people using your network.

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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. There are unique problems with mobile, including memory issues, network latency, and typing issues. It''s not just mobile, it''s also e-commerce.

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JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? Those entrepreneurs might make a six figure income, but never more than that.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We're lucky to get him, and he's an incredible young entrepreneur. We actually reached out to them, because we were fascinated with the e-commerce space. One of those sectors are marketplaces, the other is content and e-commerce. Michael Jones: We love social e-commerce, and we love marketplaces. How about MeUndies?

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MARCH 16, 2017

What I am trying to provide to entrepreneurs, and what I am trying to position and market this to for the entire community, and what eventually delivers on what we've done with our advisory business, is to apply all of our corporate relationships, across tech, media, and Internet companies. We'll also do some light ad-tech.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Jonathan Neddenriep: Instead of having to go out and negotiate print contracts and acquire your own paper, and for many people in the past even go out and buy your own ink, all these crazy things digital marketers never have to think of, we have a network of printers across the U.S., We think that's really important.

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JULY 11, 2014

The content is really amazing, and leverages the power of social, and applies that towards e-commerce and deals. When I got involved with Slickdeals, I decided to tap into the LA market, and tap into my network of talented folks, who could really transform and accelerate the deal business. That''s how we got into LA. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2011

I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. UCLA Anderson really seems to be a hotbed of entrepreneurs nowadays - did you know going into the MBA program you'd be starting your own company? James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

What has evolved over the past year or so, is I've been seeing that the e-commerce business is very strong. We've all noticed over the last decade or so things like the Home and Garden Network, the popularity of designers, which has really brought furniture to the forefront of design.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mobile operators are kind of in the center of the crosshairs in regards of trying to figure out how to leverage their existing assets, networks , and users, and how to start creating revenue around that. where if you're doing anything with mobile commerce in the U.S. That's certainly the case in the U.S., Unlike the U.S.,

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JUNE 1, 2011

Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. Right now, we are running targeted ads using ad networks or whatnot. We also make some e-commerce revenue, because some people are ranking products, so we can make affiliate revenue or lead revenue on clicks on things like cars.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Scott Morrow: Sports/outdoors is quite interesting, that's the fastest growing lifestyle category in e-commerce. It's an extremely valuable service, and we're paid through various commercial relationships--Google AdSense, major affiliate networks, or direct relationships with individual brands and retailers.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We've built some social curation tools, which use social signaling--tweets, clickthroughs, or comments on Facebook--and take what the network is deciding are important stories, and highlighting those and moving them further up on our site, so that the important stories on any given day are being highlighted. How did you connect with Tony?

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JANUARY 17, 2017

We can see marchan transactions, and if they are making e-commerce transactions, if they are paying things at small kiosks. In addition, we use primary and secondary social networking information, in order to verify they are who they say they are. We can see location information, payroll data, bank balances, and savings data.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. but businesses spend 18 trillion a year, but very few companies are trying to facilitate that kind of commerce. It's a full-blown, B2B social network.

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JULY 23, 2012

There are job boards for resumes, and sites like LinkedIn to network and connect with each other, and they do have recommendations, but what they lack is the scoring element. If someone you have worked with and trust recommends someone, that goes a long way to determining if that person is good or not.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Mike Hale: The whole concept behind Tibesti, is we really want to transform ecommerce into "we" commerce. It's a way that users can have no inventory, no shipping, and no risk--to create lots of entrepreneurs out there. Mike explained how he went from the founding team at Starz Encore to the startup. What's the idea behind Tibesti?

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