SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie. What's your background?

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Web Content Startup Education 187

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. .” After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling.

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San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A Karat’s approach to treating individual digital content creators as future “unicorns” is not isolated.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

socalTECH

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 doing a lot of hiring?

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. If we had both still be in Los Angeles, we'd been too busy to start a company, and wouldn't have need to start a company. At the time, I got Lynda.com. It was going crazy.

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Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last week, Savings.com , the online coupon site based in Los Angeles, made a big move into the world of grocery store coupons, from its existing business providing coupon codes and deals for the online world. They had provided content on our website, and they had promoted to their audience on what we''re doing.

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Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Lunch.com is based in Los Angeles. It was user generated content for travel, but back in 1999, before we'd really seen the movement toward user generated content. The other piece, which is most important, is that most people contribute content because of the humanitarian aspect. What's the story behind Lunch.com?

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Content Startup Sites Manhattan Beach 204

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I also think there's an interesting opportunity in Los Angeles, as the tech scene continues to develop and mature. The key thing in figuring out how to design this kind of event and content, is you want to be able to provide really practical advice, and make sure you bring in people who tell it like it is. It's a great event.

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Capital Entrepreneur Invest Artificial Inteligence 162

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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. It's all about if you can tell a good story, and build a good sales funnel. What's your background, and how did the company start?

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. Who are its founders? How does it work?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. It seems like there are a lot of mobile sales folks who would find your software useful in that case? William Chow: This gives you a way to control that content.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. He’s our sounding board for technical operations, specially with content protection. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. This would later inspire the genesis of StrongMail. So much for resting!

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Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

You can write an angry email to get your emotions out but you shouldn’t necessarily send it (or wait 1 hour and then make a decision). We compare Twitter with Facebook and its current privacy situation with users, and discuss how Twitter avoided this issue by starting out saying “this content is public”. Net neutrality (1:09:00).

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, it would be an understatement to say that traditional media is skeptical about Google’s benevolence and many fear a world in which video content margins are crushed in the way that print & music have been with the primary beneficiary having been Google. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo!

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Content Google Media Hulu 386