TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren also wanted regulation in place that would block companies making over $25 billion that operate as social media or search platforms or marketplaces from owning companies that also sell services on those marketplaces. As a whole, venture capitalists viewing the policy were underwhelmed. — Balaji S.

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MAY 24, 2010

Micro-messaging service Twitter said this morning that it is banning third-party advertising in its stream, taking direct aim at Los Angeles-based Twitter advertising service Ad.ly. However, Twitter's own "Promoted Tweets" feature is direct competition to TweetUp's services.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. 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.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

There are an awful lot of Internet music services out there nowadays--how does a startup try to compete with all that noise, and do it ad-free? Los Angeles-based Radical.FM (www.radical.fm) thinks it has a new formula for Internet streaming, and can take on Pandora and others in head to head competition.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

The AeA just released its third Competitiveness Series report endorsing eHealth, arguing that it will lower costs and enhance the safety, reliability, convenience, and delivery of healthcare. All installments of the AeA Competitiveness Series can be downloaded for free at: www.aeanet.org/cs. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. We put the "Service" back into Internet Service Provider.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Customized content. Stage and settle debate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Company still in beta.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? That's the story we got from Tobi Bauckhage , the co-founder and CEO of Moviepilot (www.moviepilot.com), a German firm which is setting up shop in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people There was some beautiful web sites that were built, but I know from my time as a talent agent, these guys were spending a lot of time and money on content, but not spending a lot of time on how to monetize it. Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. John Nahm: We offer a basic service, which allows you to send up to 25 calls at a time for free. People use the free service for small parties, groups, or gatherings.

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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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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. understand you actually had shutdown the service, and that the company was essentially at the brink of death? Joey, thanks for the time today.

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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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MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. This is my third company.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

John Singleton: WordHustler is a service that empowers writers to get connected with people who publish or produce their work. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. We also offer services for international writers, almost a virtual office.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

We're growing very quickly, and have around 100 employees, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Buenos Aires. Our largest offices is in Los Angeles, which is our headquarters. However, we feel we're nimble enough, and have an amazing talented team servicing players, wherever they decide to play games.

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Platform Mobile Startup Develop 147

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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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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

ZehnerGroup is a full-service digital agency headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Our unique entrepreneurial spirit lends itself perfectly to launching the next great web startup or is generating that fresh spark to create a competitive advantage for a large corporation. Praedicat, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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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. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

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MARCH 20, 2009

We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web. The way we can combat that, is by constantly adding new features and services, which give users more reasons to stick with us. We're going to add value-added services, points, and giveaway type programs.

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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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OCTOBER 7, 2009

However, those trainers usually cost $60 an hour or more--here in Los Angeles, it's $80 plus--and it's structurally very difficult. A plan alone is not all that valuable if you won't follow them, so what we give are also the tools--via iPhone, the web, SMS, email, Android, Blackberry--to log you actually did do.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. Tell us how you got the name?

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. In todays highly competitive job marketplace, it is becoming increasingly more difficult. Ive built development teams in Chicago, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and India. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

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JUNE 12, 2010

How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service. Offers a private label service that allows campus book retailers to offer an online rental model; serves 1.3mm to-date. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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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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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. Let me use LA as an example.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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