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OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. Nick Desai: Jack Steinfeld--which everyone knows as Body by Jake--is the founder of Global Fitness Media.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Currently, Los Angeles-based Demand Media , San Diego's Zogenix , City of Industry-based NewEgg , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Reva Medical , Westlake Village-based Inphi Corp , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan are among the local technology firms waiting to reach the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. Did the TV stimulate search?

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APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive. Lolita Carrico: Social media had a lot to do with it, for sure.

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Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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JUNE 2, 2014

There are several new things happening, including the maker movement, crowdfunding, and the democratization of innovation, which will mean more startups and more demand for manufacturing. A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. If you look at media, and not just radio, advertisers want to get value. there are so many things called media which are vying for media buyer's attention.

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JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. We think Asterisk is an entirely different marketplace, and therefore not a competitive threat.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media. We manage that competition through an aucton process. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? Typically, this is when they might have sold through about 50 percent of their inventory, and they have the rest to sell.

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MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services? More and more, entertainment has transformed into a demand driven industry. We really help them understand what their audience is all about. In reality, it's very different today.

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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