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DECEMBER 6, 2012

AngelHack, the self-proclaimed leader in hackathon competitions, completed its Fall 2012 season this past weekend with contests held simultaneously in five cities: Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Toronto and Paris. In Santa Monica, Hackathon first-timers and veterans all gathered at CrossCampus to hack almost 30 products within 24 hours.

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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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JANUARY 24, 2011

Jeremy Helfand , the President of United Online 's Media Group, has departed the Woodland Hills-based firm and ended up at a Palo Alto startup. The firm was actually spawned out of a UCLA MBA business plan competition. According to Palo Alto-based Auditude this morning, Helfand has joined the company as CEO.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales. It sounds like you''re completely boostrapped.

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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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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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JULY 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the stealth-mode startup which announced a funding round this week, has a unique pitch to potential employees: the firm is offering up $11,000 wrapped in Bacon, an oil painting of the new employee, Cuban cigars, a year's supply of beer, and more prizes to new employees or people who refer friends to work at the startup.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. Tracy DiNunzio: RecycledBride and Tradesy are same of the same company, Recycled Media. I didn't have any funding.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Ross tells us about how they bootstrapped the company, the challenges of going up against big, venture funded competitors, and how it sees opportunity in Europe. our primary competition is Intent Media, which has raised $51M in venture money. What is ClickTripz? How did you guys start the company? Ross Weber: In the U.S.,

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MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. How did the new fund come about? Do you have institutional LPs in your fund, or is this your personal capital? David Waxman: This fund is a new company, the way I see it.

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JUNE 4, 2014

However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. Lina Chen: The first round of funding was super tough.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. We had a good relationship with the team, and they are at the sweet spot where they understand media, small and medium-sized businesses, and it was a great fit. Jacobo Lumbreras: Techstars LA was a huge driver for us.

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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. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company? At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley.

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MARCH 29, 2010

funding round. What's the story behind the funding? The two funds that led the round were Founder Collective, out of Boston, and a group called IA Venture Partners, which is led by Roger Ehrenberg, who used to run the Deutsche Bank hedge fund. Jeff Green: I started my career in online advertising, as a media buyer.

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JUNE 2, 2014

It''s going to be at least a three year program, and is being funded by Ernst & Young for those three years. A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment. That makes the opportunity for creating physical things much more akin to creating things like media.

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JULY 7, 2011

In other words, you can log into your social media sites like Twitter, log into Instant Messenger and other accounts, and it will pull your contacts and give you a seamless way to organize those contacts. What has set us aside from the competition, is we built our own back end telco platform. It is a competitive environment.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

If you look at media, and not just radio, advertisers want to get value. At the same time, media--or what we called media--which now includes traditional media, online media, mobile, product placement, etc. there are so many things called media which are vying for media buyer's attention.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Seed stage, venture capital fund DFJ Frontier (www.dfjfrontier.com) announced this morning that it has raised its second fund, worth $55M. We sat down with Managing Director Scott Lenet last week, ahead of the announcement, to chat about the new fund and what the firm is investing in now. Congrats on the new fund.

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JUNE 30, 2009

What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media. You did find some angel funding, didn't you?

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APRIL 16, 2010

There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable. Finally, how are you funding this business? We didn't need funding or anything of that sort, and started up the business through bootstrap funding.

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MARCH 2, 2010

News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people The firm has some funding? Alec Shankman: We raised an initial seed round from a company called NCT, which is a Columbus, Ohio based venture fund. People who are agents, like I used to be, and producers, casting directors, etc.--they're

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. They can put themselves and their friends into the media and the digital experience.

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MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook.

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JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. We think Asterisk is an entirely different marketplace, and therefore not a competitive threat.

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MAY 18, 2010

Can you talk about the status of the company in terms of funding and backing? Al Eisaian: It's been angel funded so far. From the standpoint of competition on the iPhone, there are four companies with personal assistants. We're also raising capital to get the word out in a better way. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Mark Suster: First of all, the good news, is GRP has a $200 million fund, which we've only done three investments on. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. We often hear from entrepreneurs who say--I'll hire a great team, as soon as I get funded. We're really excited about 2009.

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