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MAY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker.com , the online video programming guide firm run by former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone, debuted a "big screen" version of its site today at the Google I/O conference. The firm said the new site is designed to support using the web on 50-inch displays. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 11, 2010

Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based search site Mahalo , said Tuesday afternoon that he and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington have parted ways, and will no longer be running the TechCrunch50 conference.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In addition to individuals, Zenvoy provides its services to associations, conferences, and other organizations to help those groups enhance networking within their own members, and add value to their services. Zenvoy says it now has 3,500 organizations and 1,300 cities in its network.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

San Diego-based Yidio , an online site for finding television shows and movies online, disclosed Thursday that it has raised around $500,000 in angel funding from angel investors, including Adam Warms. The round announced at the NewTeeVee Live conference. Yidio was founded by Adam Eatros. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2018

Come join us at our newest interactive conference, XCON: The Xconomy Conference on Technology and Transformation. Request your invitation today to connect with top leaders by visiting our event site or e-mailing xcon18@xconomy.com with your name, job title, company affiliation, and.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

San Diego-based Yidio , an online site for finding television shows and movies online, disclosed Thursday that it has raised around $500,000 in angel funding from angel investors, including Adam Warms. The round announced at the NewTeeVee Live conference. Yidio was founded by Adam Eatros. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2010

announced today that it is launching today at the DEMO Spring 2010 conference in Palm Desert. Los Angeles-based Invested.in 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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).

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MARCH 7, 2017

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

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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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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.

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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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MARCH 13, 2009

Interested in winning a free ticket to the Internet Merchant Association's conference in Las Vegas? The Internet Merchant's Association conference is focused on the e-retail marketplace. You can read more about the conference (running March 16 to March 18 at the Sands Expo Center) at: [link]. worth $599)?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 20, 2015

Media mogul John Battelle, famous for spinning up new media concepts into standards, has been quietly perfecting a new conference model he is branding NewCo , a “festival of innovation.” NewCo is a new conference model that is experiential, engaging and interactive. What if we could turn conferences inside out?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. At minimum, that requires a modern website, and visibility on relevant social media sites, likely including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

The site--which uses advertising to offset providing web conferencing services at no charge--said the new YouTube video feature lets users copy and paste the URL of any YouTube video into a conference, including allowing for pausing or skipping ahead in videos.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , the provider of free web conferencing and webinar services, has updated its site, in a major update for the service. The new service also includes a 6-way video conferencing feature specifically aimed at hosting mall video conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I have written about this before in my post on Conference Hos. These are people at every conference. Because often these Conference Hos bring back their latest idea from the hot tub cocktail session with their favorite tech superstar. In conferences, in bars, at late-night food, touring the sites in China.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in the early 2000s, the Maker Movement took hold in California, based on the emergence of such do-it-yourself (DIY) tools as 3-D printers, and now sites such as SketchUp and Makerspaces have all the tools you need to make almost anything computer related. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable.

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

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. Thrive Market offers up organic, healthy, non-GMO groceries and other products via its membership-based e-commerce site. READ MORE>>.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You get a lot of traffic — not always results. If you aren’t careful every PR team will measure inches over impact.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the third party Twitter client software firm headed by Bill Gross, said today that it has linked with blog site Mashable for a SXSW promotion. Financial details of the cross promotion were not disclosed.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

Our goal was to have the conference participants wake up in their suites to a flyer stealthily placed under their doors in the middle of the night. I had no idea how I was going to slip the flyers under the doors of conference attendees. A conference bag had been hung on my door handle, and every other attendee''s door handle as well.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Santa Monica-based TrueCar is continuing its outreach to car dealers--looking to patch up what had been a fairly contentious relationship with both dealers who list and do not list automobiles on its site--saying it is releasing an updated "Dealer Pledge". READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The announcement, which was made Monday at the AllThingsD conference, will create original interactive content, live events and streaming, and more for Xbox. Microsoft said the production studio will employ 125, and plans to roll out its first content later this year. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you are like us, a huge number of the conference calls you participate in are enabled by a company called FreeConferenceCall.com , which has enabled free conference calls for millions of startups and large businesses alike. But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service?

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MARCH 22, 2010

Glendale-based Global Conference Partners, the firm behind the free conference calling site FreeConference.com , has inked a partnership with contact management software firm Gwabbit , Gwabbit said Monday. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The week long list of events includes parties, celebrity social media personalities, conferences and panels, and a keynote by Robert Tercek. However, the city's social media impact is probably much greater than that ranking might imply, particularly due to the influence of celebrities on sites like Twitter. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2015

The company said the new product is aimed at small, medium, and large businesses looking to shed the costs of on-site telephony services. The new service replaces all of the functions of a typical in-house PBX system, including call recording conference bridges, worldwide DIDs and more. Voxox did not announce pricing on the service.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The startup, which is led by Robert Flynn, said it will use the funding to launch new sites and grow its advertising sales. As part of the funding, Andrew Goodenough--formerly of Summit Business Media and Thomson Media''s Banking Publishing/Conferences Group--will join the company''s board of directors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In fact, many of the same venues, such as industry conferences, entrepreneur forums and local business organizations are useful for both. Join online "matchmaking" sites for business partners. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors. Attend local university entrepreneur activities.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

and FAIL Blog web sites, apparently was spawned out of an introduction at last year's Twiistup technology conference, according to investor the Foundry Group. The $30M funding deal for Seattle's Cheezburger , the web publisher best known for its LOLcats-themed I Can Has Cheezburger?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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