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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based equity crowdfunding site StartEngine is looking to get into the "initial coin offering" (ICO) market, saying that it is planning on becoming one of the first crowdfunding portals to accept Initial Coin Offerings. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based Invested.in announced today that it is launching today at the DEMO Spring 2010 conference in Palm Desert. The firm, which is self funded, says that it allows individuals, businesses, and nonprofits to raise money for any project, using social media.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One , the Hyperloop transportation developer led by Rob Lloyd, has released the first images of its Nevada test track. Hyperloop One showed off the test site, the Nevada Desert Development Site (DevLoop) at a conference in Dubai.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Los angeles-based video site Hulu said this morning that it has inked a deal with the TED conference--which, not coincidentally, kicks off today in Long Beach--and will be featuring the 50 most popular TEDTalks from the last few years.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Los Angeles is looking to prove it is a center of the social media universe next week, with a roster of events for Social Media Week Los Angeles. According to local event organizers, the Los Angeles Social Media Week events--75 in all--are expected to have well more than the 4,000 who participated last year.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Los Angeles-based health food and products retailer Thrive Market has just hit a $100M run rate, and now has 180,000 paid members, according to co-founder and co-CEO Nick Green. Green, speaking at the Recurring Revenue Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, said that the company is growing rapidly, adding 30,000 paid members a month.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

Don't look for Bargain.com , which is one of the domain names being auctioned off at the Moniker domain name auction at next week's DomainFest , the domain name conference spearheaded by Los Angeles domain firm Oversee.net. The highest domain name sale on record looks to be around $13.0M, for the site Sex.com, sold in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based Causecast, a new startup focused on promoting causes and non-profits, launched this week at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The site features videos of celebrities promoting their causes, profiles of nonprofits, and ability to donate to organizations.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based Savings.com , the online coupon site run by Loren Bendele, said today at a presentation at the Launch conference that it is launching a closed beta of its daily deals aggregation service. The firm is looking to include daily deals from such sites as Groupon, LivingSocial, and others onto a single page.

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APRIL 12, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango has jumped on the Facebook bot bandwagon, saying Tuesday at Facebook's F8 conference that it will be launching its own, Fandango bot, which will book movie tickets via Facebook Messenger.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu was one of the many firms announcing new Facebook application yesterday at Facebook's F8 conference. According to Hulu, its new Hulu on Facebook app integrates Hulu with Faceboook, to make watching TV and movies on the site even more social.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Fox said at every press conference one or two questions would be about what songs teammates played before games. That site focuses on connecting people with similar musical tastes. ” Earbuds founder Jason Fox. It wasn’t just Cam Newton who received attention.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Flinja , the startup developing an online marketplace for freelance college students and alumni, has launched to the wider world, after graduating from the StartEngine startup accelerator in Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based television streaming site Hulu expects to make $240M in 2010, according to Jason Kilar, the firm's CEO. Kilar, who revealed the numbers at today's NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco, also said the firm had $108M in revenues in 2009.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace is in a deal with SoundExchange , which collects music royalties, to help deliver unclaimed royalties to artists, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta said over the weekend at the MIDEM conference in Cannes.

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JULY 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace and MTV.com said Wednesday that the two are partnering to stream the Comic-Con International conference to their users.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yammer, a Twitter-like spinout out of high profile Los Angeles genealogy firm Geni.com, has scored the top prize at the TechCrunch50 awards in San Francisco. style genealogy and social networking web site headed up by former PayPal founder David Sacks; the firm is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based NativeTung , a startup developing software for managing translation of web sites into multiple languages, is unveiling itself at the DEMOfall conference today in San Diego.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Los Angeles-based Mota Motors , which provides services to help consumers buy and sell used automobiles, is one of the Southern California startups which is making a push at TechCrunch50 this week. Mota launched a new site at the conference Monday. Mota is venture backed by Prism VentureWorks, and received $4.5M

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MARCH 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based IVT , a provider of web casting software and services, announced today that it has named Jim McGovern as its new CEO. McGovern was most recently CEO of itzbig, an online interactive job board site, and has also served as CEO of Marketwire. McGovern replaces founder Greg Pulier, who is now CTO of the firm.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based live streaming site Stickam.com announced this morning that the firm has been selected by the National Association of Television Program Executives' Market & Conference in Las Vegas. The firm said it will be the exclusive live streaming provider at the conference. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , in a bid to connect with the "real-time" web, said early this morning at the LeWeb conference that it has launched a new, real-time API.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , The Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum today said that the firms are in a contest to send a "citizen journalist" to the Davos World Economic Forum.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Los Angeles technology crowd turned out in full for last week's Twiistup 5 event--a showcase for startups looking for exposure and funding--with over 1,000 attendees at a private aircraft hangar at the Santa Monica airport.

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JUNE 2, 2010

This morning's interview is with Alon Goren , co-founder and President of Los Angeles-based Invested.in , an online site which allows users to run fundraisers for their projects. You publish it, and the whole thing is managed on our site where you've created a fundraising campaign. launched earlier this year at DEMO.

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JUNE 11, 2012

How do you cut out all of the effort required to discover, find, and book venues for your event, wedding, or conference? As a reminder to our readers who haven't used EventUp, what is the site all about? I also had the chance to do a conference, and had knowledge of that. is trying to figure out. How are you handling that?

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. NAME David Sacks.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The firm was one of the recent startups to launch at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference last week, and has the backing of OrganicStartup, the startup acceleration effort of local angel investor Scott Sangster. Fei Xiao: Back in February, we attended Startup Weekend in Los Angeles. What's the story behind trueRSVP?

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing engineer and PageWoo ’s CEO and co-Founder Jason Crilly about his side project, the new hacker news site for the Southern California tech community called Develop.la. the rising tech movement sweeping through the burgeoning Los Angeles startup scene ­— he wants to put L.A.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. It sounds like an interesting story behind how it started--tell us how the site came about? That's what makes our site unique.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

myLAB Box From Los Angeles California. myLAB Box was conceived by Los Angeles-based entrepreneurs Ursula Hessenflow and Lora Ivanova who saw the opportunity to fix a major gap between the way we all approach our sexual health and a health crisis of epidemic proportion. and Celebrate conference in San Jose, CA.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Vonjour (www.vonjour.com), a Los Angeles startup, has developed a cloud-based customer support and phone system which, in addition to handling all of a company''s usual enterprise phone needs--also lets employers harness employee smartphones to deal with customer support issues, make calls, and interact with customers directly from a mobile app.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things. Where did the idea come from?

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Before Harrison Metal, Erik was most recently vice president of product management and strategy at TripAdvisor, the largest travel community site on the Web. Howard Marks is the founder and co-chair of StartEngine, Los Angeles’ largest startup accelerator, determined to make LA a top tech entrepreneurial city.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Almost everyone has had some situation where you wanted to give someone a phone number, but only temporarily--think Craigslist, or maybe at that bar or business conference, where you want to hand out a number, but only have it work for a short while. What's next big thing for you?

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