socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Los Angeles-based Famous Birthdays , which operates a network of sites which provide information about celebrities, social media stars, TV shows, movies, and more, has expanded its service to serve Portuguese speaking countries. According to the company on Friday, its new site is at Famous Birthdays Portugus. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 19, 2021

Automotive technology company RepairSmith has raised $42 million in Series B funding for its on-site repair platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2020

Los Angeles-based BidGarage.com announced late Tuesday that it has launched a new, online classic car auctino site. According to the company, the new service connects people with low-mileage, high-value vehicles to global buyers, curating vehicles that appear on the marketplace.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. I am an investor and advisor to one such “eyeballs” company. Remembering the insanity before 2000. And the numbers were staggering.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. The results web site now includes a "framework overhead" chart inspired by comments from Hacker News user goodwink. We are hiring.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

We spoke with founder and CEO, Shane Bernstein , on why he thinks the company's system is far superior to using a resume to find technical talent. Shane Bernstein: We're looking at things from a lot of different sites, and using big data to process them. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? What set of functionality would make your company launch-ready? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? What set of functionality would make your company launch-ready? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Speculation that Musk would move to Texas picked up after Tesla picked and started construction on a site near Austin for a factory that will build its Cybertruck and the Model 3 and Model Y. His other privately held company, SpaceX, is planning a launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 5, 2018

Business package policies are inexpensive and comprehensive tools that should be contracted by all companies with any assets to measure and protect. As was each subsequent backup, on-site and offsite. It took weeks for the team to assemble code from various sources such as customer sites, beta test locations and demo machines. (For

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2020

The company is targeting real estate developers and investors, single family buyers, owners, or "flippers", and others with its service. The company's website says it currently only serves Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The company said its product now offers up a new image optimization feature, which helps decrease image download sizes by 39%. The company says its product now provides the most efficient image format and optimal size for every device and browser, with support for PNG, JPEG, WEBP and AVIF formats.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2014

A new, Los Angeles-based Connect6 launched this week, with a new, Chrome browser extension which looks to bridge the web--and such sites as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and other services--with LinkedIn-like information on potential contacts.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

The online coupon search industry is very crowded, with dozens of sites, players large and small, and is a very confusing landscape for consumers. The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding. We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 17, 2018

The company intends to build a manufacturing facility on an 18-acre site at Berth 240 and use waterways to transport the massive rocket. There were widespread reports that the company was looking to drastically expand its operations at the location. SpaceX says the BFR is simply too big to be transported by roads.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies. The power of large screen real estate.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

While that claim would likely make most D2C founders cringe, for founder Chris Alston, it’s part of the magic of his company, Mov. Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. For example, Pat Connaughton’s Jersey made $2,164 on Mov versus $560 on the NBA auction site.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

The way it works, is you go to our site, find the product through either search, a dropdown menu, or filters, and you can find the products you want. What''s the story behind the company? I owned and ran my own search marketing company, and started and ran a digital consulting company.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 30, 2020

The company already boasts a few very large initial customers in the automotive industry, consumer packaged goods and aerospace and defense, including Toyota, according to chief executive Arye Barnehama. In Elementary Robotics, Islam saw a company that could compete with large, publicly traded businesses like Cognex.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Newport Beach-based startup OnSite Waste Technologies , which is developing counter-top, on-site medical waste sterilization products, says it has signed on a supplier of products for the senior living industry. The company said that Direct Supply, based in Milwaukee, is offering the company's OnSite TE-5000 product to its customers.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

Then on January 1, 2020, the state of California made it dramatically easier to add extra housing units to single-family home sites. What sets the company apart from others in the space, its execs claim, is that it not only builds and installs the units, it helps homeowners with the painful process of getting permits.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. Let me not bury the lede.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. But it wasn’t to be.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. The seed funding was worth $800K, and led by Moonshots Capital, and also included individual angels from the pet industry. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

. “There was an abandoned vehicle parked there and the station was surrounded by mud,” said Terry who is CEO and co-founded the company with Evette Ellis. The company said it has raised $2.75 Terry said it could take as long as 30 days to get an electrical contractor on site to repair these non-electrical problems.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2017

TeleSign's cloud-based communications services are used by many, major online service providers and e-commerce sites for authentication users, using phone and other methods. According to BICS, TeleSign will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. TeleSign will continue to be run by CEO Aled Miles.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We caught up with Rachel recently to hear more about the company. What''s the story behind the company? How is your company funded, and where are you now? I got my MBA at stanford, and got to work at companies like eBay, HotWire, and Google. That''s why I decided to start my next new company here. What is FEM?

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2017

As part of the deal, BICS said that TeleSign will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, led by current CEO Aled Miles. Daniel Kurgan, CEO of BICS, will become Chairman of TeleSign. TeleSign is venture backed by Adams Street Partners, March Capital Partners, Summit Partners, and Telstra Corp.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur. anyone who doesn't program). Find your dev shop.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Famous Birthdays , the online site which lets users look up the birthdays and other information on famous people, said it has surpassed 20 million monthly unique users, as of January. The site also said it saw an additional, 2 million unique users to Famous Birthdays Espanol. Famous Birthdays is led by Evan Britton.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2018

“We’ll have 1,000 cell sites up and operating on the global standard,” McAdam said on the cable network. McAdam also name-checked Boston’s mayor when listing the municipal leaders who’ve been most receptive to working with the technology company on bringing new networking technology to consumers.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 21, 2020

a downtown water treatment technology business, has moved its corporate headquarters to the company's manufacturing site in McKinney, Texas. OriginClear Inc.,

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2019

” Citing a Bloomberg report, the site explains automakers may have had the worst first half for new-vehicle retail sales since 2013. Companies like Fair are offering new types of leases combining a traditional auto financing option with modern conveniences. Car sales are tanking, but people still need cars.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2020

SpaceX is said to be in talks with local government officials about setting up a new rocket factory in the Port of Los Angeles, a location that would give it easy access to the ocean for transporting its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles to its coastal launchpad sites in Florida.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2017

The company's site also lists future routes that include flying between Palo Alto and Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Las Vegas, and Santa Barbara to San Diego. The company said it is aggregating the existing charter industry to provide the fleet for its services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

But I had just seen the company present at a recent tech event and thought highly of what they were building. I was interested in the company but I wasn’t chasing the deal. The call from a fellow VC to “look harder” made me decide to request a site visit. He also called the company. The CEO called me.

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