TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Mojiit, the Los Angeles-based company behind the popular avatar generation service Mojichat, has landed one of its highest-profile users with the launch of Odell Beckham Jr.’s Customized, branded emotes are one of the ways that companies are trying to make it easier for live-streamers to make money off of their shows.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content. The All-Important User Experience.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

In 2017, the company was recast as an electric performance brand aimed at producing exciting and fun-to-drive electric vehicles — a niche that Tesla was the first to fill and has dominated ever since. COVID-19 has affected how Polestar and its parent company operate. Polestar was once a high-performance brand under Volvo Cars.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. How is the company funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

His title “ The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World ” characterizes the challenge of demanding attention from a new generation of consumers who want what they want, when they want it, and where they want it. Look to the movie screen to see what you won’t soon forget.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. What is FilmBreak? We signed our first distribution deal in December.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Those might be on household items like laundry detergent, or it might be gadgets like tablets or a large screen television. It looks like your company has been around for a long time, but it seems like you have been pretty quiet? The company is actually relatively new to the LA market. That''s how we got into LA.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Unfortunately, many of these companies fail to properly monetize such non-paying users. In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we encouraged usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. Let''s face it. GitHub, Divshot ).

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

Yet as an entrepreneur, you can rarely hide under the rock and pretend there’s nothing else happening around you and no one is demanding your attention. Michael Litt recently shared how her B2B company decided to use Snapchat-style videos to engage with both her team and their customers. Manage Company Culture.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We caught up with Jason Lehmbeck , one of the firm's founders, to hear more about the company. We started the company with the goal of making every search ad relevant. For example, take a product from a major electronics retailer, a 42-inch flat screen TV.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Alex Nocifera: We help the enterprise, large brands, working with brands like US Cellular, Panera Bread, Square, Uber, and help them generate demand for their products and services in a local, acute manner. Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic? What is Field Day?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It is also a result of pent-up demand. It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. Consumer spending is where I’m dubious.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Campbell quickly formed a thriving community he calls “Mindshaians” who flocked to attend his various salons, workshops, screenings, and cultural outings. “In For the past five years Mindshare LA has remained at its home base downtown, but due to high demand, it is finally making its way over to the Westside. The next Mindshare L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Many of us argued at the time that the browsers would get more powerful and we bet our companies on that by not developing client applications. My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. We could update small portions of the screen rather than an entire refresh. non-mobile). It’s Facebook.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

Prior to bombing out of corporate life, I worked as a management consultant and at a very early age I was dealing with the presidents of very large companies. From this point the company grew like wild fire. This would serve me very well as my product moved from individual clients to entire Wall Street firms licensing my code.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. It is expensive for software companies to build for heterogeneous environments. Enter Apple.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

At a recent hackathon, the company saw that their users also wanted to selectively share their moments on public social networks, such as Twitter. They also saw a great demand for users tagging who they were with when sharing these moments. The company says the service rewards friends who you are with the most often.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

With all those demands, it’s no surprise that many ventures (and a whole lot of schools) are turning to Chromebooks to get the job done. This is great for open floor offices, collaboration, travel, and other things that new companies often find necessary as they build their brand. Toshiba Chromebooks are particularly affordable.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Dell has created a very impressive ultrabook with this 13-inch, touchscreen capable laptop that includes everything you need for demanding projects. This laptop includes an ultra HD screen, up to 15 hours of battery life (with the eco modes all turned on), and options for a a 6 th gen Intel Core i5 processor plus up to 8GB of RAM.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

Today that changes as two major brands Callaway and Uber, partner to offer on-demand rides at one of the largest events in sports. “How golfers experience golf companies has changed considerably,” said Harry Arnett, SVP, Marketing, Callaway Golf.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh works with Miramar portfolio companies to identify growth drivers, potential business partners and evaluate prospective investment opportunities. Currently, Maneesh serves on the board of the following Miramar portfolio companies: Genomera(observer), RealPractice, Welltok(observer). He joined Miramar in 2006.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2017

We spoke with founder and CEO Aaron Robin to learn more about the app and how it started, and how the company is hoping to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health support. Aaron Robin: Essentially, iExhale is an online, on-demand, wellness and mental health platform. What's iExhale all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. an investment in your company. In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. We thank you!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. companies did not participate in the first phase and consequently were not in the running for all that followed. We took $2.3

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. You have the headphones in your ears and you listen to the whole track, the dialogue, surround special effects, and music tracks as you are watching the movie on the screen.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

At Citrix, GoToAssist customers would occasionally ask if they could just pay for our screen-sharing functionality because they didn''t intend to use the product''s other features, such as reporting and session recording. Despite a tremendous price increase, overall demand jumped substantially while churn dropped dramatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Here are 4 areas / companies that I’m excited about: 1. If you have an iPhone you can scan the UPC code on the food you eat and they will be entered directly into DailyBurn done through a partnership with a company called Occipital. I got so excited about this company that I reached out to the CEO to enquire about fund raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. I’ve had to do this with 2 companies at the same time. Through this process he raised $2 million. So I thought, WTF?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

As larger, more established rich media providers have struggled to retool for the new mobile media universe, the Jetpack platform was built entirely in Java and HTML5, giving publishers and advertisers the ability to design unique units once and serve them seamlessly across all screens.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. One of the other things we do very well, and where we have engineering expertise, is we provide one-off, interactive IVR solutions for media companies in the Los Angeles Area. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We spoke with Sunil Rajaraman, CEO and co-founder of the firm, about the company. We're targeting any company producing any short form video. What's the background of your founders, and how did the company come about? We'd always talked about starting a company together. What's Scripped?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Why buy now?

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