socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2016

Los Angeles-based ridesharing service Opoli --which faces rather daunting competition from Uber and Lyft--is hoping to break through the ridesharing noise, with an offer of $5 for a trip to LAX. The company said users need to select the "Opoli" ride option in its app to get the special pricing. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history. At Upfront we have always done 40% of our investing in Greater Los Angeles and it’s precisely for this reason. dot-com bonanza.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

in markets such as New York and Los Angeles. They can also do things like initiate refunds, track deliveries and get price-drop notifications. According to Crunchbase , the company has made nine known acquisitions over time — most recently picking up Los Gatos-based content creation services provider Toplooks.ai.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Some recent jobs: VP of Business Development, RampRate - Los Angeles. THIS ROLE REQUIRES DEEP EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE IT SERVICES, TELECOM, CLOUD AND HOSTING MARKET. Business Development Director, Colony Logic - Los Angeles. Maybe it''s time for a change!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

To shortcut what has been an antiquated way of connecting consumers with attorneys, Los Angeles startup LawKick (www.lawkick.com) has created an online, easy way to match up clients with lawyers, through a set of simple questions and answers about different kinds of legal problems. How has the attorney response been to your service?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2013

Paul Davis: Hubber is a peer to peer, car rental service which is based at the airport. We looked at the market, and saw that most peer-to-peer car sharing services were city based. We bundle in insurance, and provide far more competitive rates than rental car companies. What is Hubber? Where is this available now?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Dedicated to our Clients. Don't miss it!

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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JULY 26, 2017

Broadband access in the US has come under both scrutiny and criticism recently with a lack of competition being blamed for sub-par services. Rural US has been at the heart of the discussion, but cities aren’t doing much better with nearly two thirds of the population of Los Angeles living in an area with only one provider.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

That is, businesses are using APIs like crazy to stay competitive and communicate with both partners and customers more effectively. Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter have already proven that using API services they can stay ahead of their competition and deliver continuous value to their user base,” says David Kullmann, Partner at Citrusbyte.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. There are various models of this but amongst the most successful I’ve seen executed is FabFitFun , based in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Even if the price per deal might be lower, they have a greater amount of them, and more predictability of projects.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If so, Los Angeles-based Overnight (www.joinovernight.com) is for you. Can you explain how your service works? By that time, I had figured out the cadence of pricing for hotel rooms, and had been traveling back and forth between LA and San Francisco for three or four days each week. Plus, prices were starting at $180.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M We understand your service also connects into Skype?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. The geography between New York and Los Angeles is very different.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup urRadio (www.urradio.com) thinks so. It''s also the only streaming service broadcasting at 432 Hz. Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Earlier this month, Los Angeles startup Dollar Shave Club (www.dollarshaveclub.com) made a huge splash with its launch of a subscription, monthly delivery service for razor blades. We somehow got on a conversation about shaving, and he mentioned the price of brand name razors. How did you get involved with Science?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Nick Desai: FitOrbit delivers a proven solution for fitness and weight loss over the Internet, for the first time, at a price people can afford. However, those trainers usually cost $60 an hour or more--here in Los Angeles, it's $80 plus--and it's structurally very difficult. We've also built a variety of pricing options.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We caught up with co-founder Clark Landry to chat about his new startup, which he co-founded with Michael Ritter.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

SideCar now serves passengers in Seattle, Austin, DC, Philly and, now, thankfully, the City of Angels. Competition abounds, mostly in the form of Lyft , another Bay Area-based purveyor of ride-shares. I asked my driver point-blank if her services were any different from that of Yellow Cab. I can vouch for Paul’s assertions.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

Based in Los Angeles, California, Insteegram currently ships worldwide. ” Park found it particularly interesting that he can follow a teacher or even a VP of a financial service but never really know it. A lot of competitors also stole their ideas and started offering the same services. Marketing Your Product.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 18, 2015

110 Los Angeles, CA 90028 (Starting Location). IgnitedSpaces develops executive office suites and shared spaces designed to enhance productivity, collaboration and the success of our members while providing top-notch client services and amenities. Swing by Grindr to pickup your name tags. Where: 6725 W Sunset Blvd.

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MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Already covered. But seriously.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Students can also attend live local workshops or consult with individual teachers directly at a higher price point. Any competition in LA? TechZulu caught up with the founder Mike Tringe and this is what he told us.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. A bundle of software services for SMBs to manage their inventory, accounting, manufacturing, and purchasing. From: Los Angeles, CA. From: Los Angeles, CA.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. Price: FREE. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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APRIL 12, 2018

Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country. Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. we were sold on the concept immediately. We weren’t sure.

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