socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based Social Reality (SRAX), which developing digital marketing and consumer data management software--and more recently, has tried to launch its own cryptocurrency called BIGtoken--said it is restating its results all the way back to March of 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

It won’t happen right away but I’ve seen some innovative companies doing exactly this in places like Australia where they are taking a more liberal approach to allowing drone deliveries. they just put up with the food delivery company fees. What is the Shopify of the restaurant industry? ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Santa Monica-based social marketing firm GraphEffect said this morning that it has opned up new offices in both New York City and Chicago, as the company continues to expand its staff. GraphEffect's software helps companies measure the impact of their social media marketing on Facebook and other platforms.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2016

Over fifty years ago, I was CEO of a record manufacturing company in Hollywood. We were the only such facility on the West coast to provide and control the entire process from studio, through finished vinyl record pressings in the same building, therefore able to promise quality control others could only dream about.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Consumers buying through smart phones, travelers using the new, shared economy and businesses replacing old software with modern cloud-based solutions. And as I always assert, “Great companies are built in downturns. It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

What was the big news for your company this year? Those three LA programs alone invested in a total of 38 companies this year. In 2018 I'm looking forward to seeing some great new startups emerge in LA in areas such as future of work, cleantech, and blockchain, and to investing in ten more great companies.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

As my enterprise computer software company which produced innovative lodging systems for hotels and resorts grew quickly, we found ourselves straining to keep up with the hiring and training of good customer support representatives, a critical part of the equation then and still so today in the 24-hour environment of hotel front desk operations.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. Netflix has decided to air Chappelle’s special, which contains jokes about transgender people, even though some employees have voiced concerns they feel have been ignored by the company.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing tools for the Associated Press, McClatchy, Belo Interactive, and other publishers, said this morning that it has raised $7M more in additional funding. The round was led by BlueRun Ventures, and also included prior investors The Associated Press and others.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If there are burnout or communication problems on a founding team those problems can hijack a company's progress. Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. Roughly half used some software on premises or in the cloud, but none of it did the trick both for the salons or their customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. I like to speak about this topic with first-time wantrapreneurs because if you read the tech press every day you’d get the impression that it all glamor. But it’s hard to know that from the press.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 14, 2014

Over the years, as I managed my several computer companies as CEO or executive chairman, I made the decision to go to market with a brand new product that had never before been exposed to my customer’s marketplace. Best possible press: too early to market. Cover story for industry magazine. As a corporate promotion, it was a hit.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing software used by newspapers and other local publishers to serve up mobile news and ads, has raised $7.0M Verve Wireless has previously raised capital from the Associated Press and Iron Capital, and the firm's board also includes a representative of BlueRun Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all. Bush had the opposite narrative in the press. Obviously press narratives of people are characterizations that seldom match reality. Just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s not software. Before that he was a US senator.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. The press don’t get your financials. You can’t.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2018

You’d be hard-pressed to find a workplace today where using technology isn’t an integral part of the job, whether it’s an AI-powered recruiting tool, special coding software for app development, or even just Google Sheets that help workers keep track of budgets. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. Of course they’re software. Them vs. Us.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing software used by newspapers and the Associated Press, said today that it has named a new CEO. Verve said it has named Tom MacIsaac, most recently CEO of ExtendMedia, as CEO of the company. MacIsaac also has served at Lightningcast, AOL, and Backwire.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Only companies with cutting-edge concepts and crystal-clear market strategies stand a chance of surviving through their first year, let alone making a profit. After researching the field for seven years, the brains behind the company have figured out a way to optimize the efficiency of the process by using fuel cells. Valar Labs.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and former executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), argues that the A.I. talent shortage is the most pressing challenge facing the industry today. But we don’t yet have enough people with the right skills to build that future.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. It’s actually quite hard to lay out an annual company strategy that is articulate and underpinned by facts.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

31 offer —rejected Monday—was made by ASG Technologies Group, a Florida-based software company that last year sold a controlling stake to Evergreen Coast Capital, Elliott’s Menlo Park, CA, affiliate, which focuses on technology investing. ASG pointed out in a press release announcing the offer that the.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

And to bring more detail to it than we’ve ever been able to do before,” Dane Glasgow, Google’s VP for Geo Product Experience, said in a press event ahead of today’s announcement. He noted that this 3D layer will allow the company to visualize all its data in new and interesting ways. Image Credits: Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. Our software wasn’t fully baked. Our company was completely euphoric. We were unprepared. We were hot.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 7, 2019

The company is one of a growing number of startups trying to rejuvenate the music streaming market by combining it with social networking so that audiences can listen to the playlists of their favorite athletes and entertainers… and their friends. Now the company is working on integrations across different sports and even esports.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. Ownership Matters At Upfront we focus our energy on fewer companies where we take meaningful ownership and we continue to invest throughout the lifecycle of the company.

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StartUp Beat

MARCH 29, 2018

That innovation has now allowed the New York-based company to raise $9.3 Spokespeople from Electric said the funding will directly contribute to developing the company’s fast technology that provides a customer support channel to small- and medium-sized businesses. Most importantly, customers love it.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

Many people don’t know that I actually became Chairman of my first company and relinquishing the CEO role before the company was sold. In it he talks about the skills of willing an idea into existence and whether those are the same skills to take the company to the next level. In other words, Why now?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

” In that post I talked about how a few key people in any community can have an enormous impact on the fledgling success of the city or company. And in many communities that are new to building tech startups I’ve found that a lot of angel money is not very sophisticated at investing in startup companies. Here are mine: 1.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? spread over three different companies (and) we brought it all together. Marten continues his story by describing the company's first major challenge. You must never let a big, fat American company do this to you.'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The truth is – there isn’t a “right&# answer so for your company. And these ideas have ways of seeping into board discussions with portfolio companies as in, “have you ever thought about trying A, B or C?&# For early-stage consumer companies I would be careful not to market futures at all.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

There have been a series of tie-ups, as security-tech companies try to boost their businesses and amplify their products via acquisitions. But we’re also seeing more partnerships between security companies that aim to tie their product offerings more closely together, without going so far as combining their businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

According to SGL, developers can now submit their apps for review and have their press releases and updates distributed on the Stained Glass Labs website, which gives them the quick feedback from other developers and the ability to submit press releases, which are sent to members of the media interested in Google Glass and wearable technologies.

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Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

Agtech startup Plenty has reeled in $200 million in financing as the company presses forward on its plans to build a global network of indoor vertical farms. Softbank Vision Fund of Japan led the Series B funding round for South San Francisco, CA-based Plenty.

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