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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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OCTOBER 17, 2016

www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. If there is any one piece of advice you'd pass on to entrepreneurs, what would it be? Los Angeles-based Science Inc.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Los Angeles-based Telesign , the developer of a service that is heavily used by Internet services providers, financial services, e-commerce, and others userse to verify and authenticate their users, has added behavioral analysis to its toolkit, the company said today. Financial details of the partnership were not announced.

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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. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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MAY 8, 2012

It seems you can just about get anything via a subscription now from a Los Angeles e-commerce startup. The startup did not detail if it has any backing by investors or who is handling the business and technology end of the business. The latest? Lee (of ShoeDazzle). READ MORE>>.

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JULY 27, 2012

That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers. Our technology is built around behavioral prediction.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Managing Directors: Jeff Stibel, Kobe Bryant Investment interests: Focus on the convergence of technology, media and data (TMD), as well as in industries such as sports and wellness. Section 32.

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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. We're also giving them the technology to grow their sales, both through online and offline channels.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

TeleSign, which is led by Steve Jillings, provides it authentication services to a large chunk of the tier one online websites and e-commerce providers, but has recently been extending out its reach to a wider range of customers. READ MORE>>.

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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. So, where do you think the technology industry is today in terms of women founders?

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Darren Lit: My background is as a tech entrepreneur. On the customer side, there's been such a massive boom in and around e-commerce, with so many people looking for marketing talent, there's a huge ecosystem of customres and companies, which has allowed us to grow rather quickly. The other has been the growth in e-commerce.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You can check out Parenting.com, MyWedding.com, ThePennyHoarder.com, all these sites are using Search IQ technology, and it's our own version of inside search. E-commerce has become a huge factor. Prior to the pandemic, about 1/3 was e-commerce. Now, this calendar year, it's upward of 40% plus. Thanks for the interview!

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants. What does that look like?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For our interview this morning, we sat down with Lior Elazary , the CEO of Westlake Village-based inVia Robotics (www.inviarobotics.com), which develops robots being used to automate the labor intensive, exhausting work of retrieving items from warehouses for e-commerce. Lior Elazary: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2018

Lidia Yan: My background is in e-commerce, but my family is in logistics. We love Omar, our partner at Sequoia, who is an entrepreneur himself, and sold his last company to Google for $700M. He's a very sharp entrepreneur, and shares the same vision. The trucking industry, as you mention, isn't great about technology.

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MARCH 21, 2012

We decided, after looking at Los Angeles, that what was needed most in Los Angeles, and what entrepreneurs were interested in here, was that we'd need a little bit more capital offered than other accelerators. Because of that, you get to meet slots of people in the community, because there's such a prolific number of entrepreneurs.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The logic behind this, is that 80 percent of our bets are founder bets, and we believe we need to use every resource we can to help entrepreneurs be successful in hitting milestones. What drove your decision to focus on mental health and this aspect for entrepreneurs? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Next week is the Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), one of the longest running technology conferences held in Los Angeles. It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. We've seen some notable successes.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. We're here to serve, as a technology distribution platform, to help those insurance carriers become digital.

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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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JANUARY 23, 2017

Anna Barber: Before this, I hadn't been involved with Techstars as a mentor, however, I'd been an entrepreneur and mentored at other accelerators. However, I always wanted to get into a broader role in the startup ecosystem, where I could help other entrepreneurs work on their ideas. What had you been doing before? That's exciting.

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JUNE 25, 2015

We'll do about eight to ten deals a year, which will enable our four full time managing directors to have the time to work with our entrepreneurs, and help them hit milestones and attract follow-on funding. But, mostly, from our point of view, it's been the quality of the entrepreneurs we've been fortunate to back along the way.

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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. Jimmy Hendricks: What we really see, is lots of small entrepreneurs who will build lifestyle businesses. We want to be the technology tool kit for social commerce.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Southern California apparently has no shortage of investors, entrepreneurs, and others eager to help budding entrepreneurs. Howard Marks: We're a startup accelerator, which will help entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. However, there just hasn't been the underlying technology to make it possible to pull all of that together. What is Postie? We think that's really important.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Paul Bricault: The biggest lesson, I guess, is that when we started, the vast bulk of of our applicants were the three pillars of technology people felt matched the area. What is the number one piece of advice you'd give an entrepreneur about being accepted into Amplify? What's the biggest lessons learned over the last five years?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We sat down with Tx Zhuo to chat about the new fund, what investments it hopes to make, and what kind of entrepreneurs the fund is looking to invest in. Tx Zhuo: There's more excitement around technology in Los Angeles in the last few years. What kind of entrepreneur are you looking for? Tell us a bit about the new fund?

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JULY 17, 2013

Los Angeles has always been a major market for launching products, and in the era of e-commerce has become highly attractive for its large consumer population, a technology-savvy population, and affinity for new products and services. We''re not an e-commerce company. What is H.Bloom? Bryan Burkhart: H.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? I think we are there.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

www.science-inc.com), a new technology studio aimed at building new businesses in Los Angeles. 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.

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JULY 9, 2015

Last week, two Los Angeles area technology companies--influencer subscription service Quarterly (www.quarterly.co), and technology studio Science Inc. The second piece that we spend time on, is understanding commerce. www.science-inc.com) inked a business deal together, including both investment and major collaboration.

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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. Media Partners.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We're owned by Sirona, a large multinational, which provides almost anything a dentist needs to practice medicine and dentistry, from large scale technology to devices, to digital scanners, to really mundane things like glue and gauze. What is Dentistry.com? Our company is Futuredonics, which is the parent company of 1-800-DENTIST.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Those retailers look over at the online world, and wish they had the same kinds of tools that e-commerce retailers had to help them improve their business. Amit Jain: Bridg is a customer data platform and marketing technology for offline retailers. It's not just the best technologythat doesn't matter, really.

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JUNE 27, 2019

It showed me that, especially with venture backed startups and e-commerce, a lot of startups are going into an un-tenable space, because they're not paying back their costs. They are using our technology not only for marketing, but also for financial forecasting. We put this out there to show the power of this technology.

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