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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When Los Angeles, CA was listed as the fastest-growing tech startup region in 2014, many guesses were raised about the root cause of its success. No, to see the strength of Los Angeles’ startup scene, you must look at the whole story. This is one of the essential ingredients that make up a sustainable startup community.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Los Angele-sbased Workpop , a new startup founded by former Zynga executive Reed Shaffner and Viddy Co-Founder Chris Ovitz said this morning that it has raised $7.9M The startup is creating an online marketplace and community which seeks to help connect employers and job seekers. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based vehicle subscription startup Fair , led by longtime automobile and startup veteran Scott Painter, is boosting its executive team, saying on Monday that it has added three new executives to its team. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Santa Monica-based Comparably , the startup which lets employees and employers track compensation trends, find careers, compare companies, and more, led by serial entrepreneur Jason Nazar, has raised $7M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2018

How do you take the energy of such successes as Dollar Shave Club, Ring, Cornerstone Ondemand, and the many other local successes from the startup energy, and tap into the resources of local universities and research institutions? READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

A big group of local, Silicon Beach startups and established tech companies have signed up to showcase the Los Angeles high technology world, according to a list released today by Silicon Beach Sunday. and Retention Science.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Not just Tinder, Dollar Shave Club, Riot Games, CornerStone OnDemand and the companies you’ve heard of but there are large successes that are less well known but now very large startups businesses like Ring, Zip Recruiter, GumGum, Laurel & Wolf and too many other great companies to mention.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based FloQast , a new software startup developing month-end closing software for accountants, has raised $6.5M The startup is led by Mike Whitmire, Cullen Zandstra, and Chris Sluty. Whitmire was previously at Cornerstone OnDemand; Zandstra worked at MySpace and OneScreen; and Sluty was at Rothstein Kass.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Adam Miller of Cornerstone OnDemand, and Brian Lee of Honest Company/LegalZoom, said that LA's technology community is particularly well suited to helping the Olympic effort along. Los Angeles is up against Paris, France as host city for the Olympics in 2024. Sykes, along with David Hill of Hilly Inc., READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, MomStamp , recently said it has launched, to help mother connect with their extended network and better get referrals from "friends of friends" to local service providers. The startup says it hopes to make it easier for parents to search for everything from plumbers, to dentists, to math tutors.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Santa Monica-based Comparably.com , a new startup led by longtime entrepreneur Jason Nazar, has raised $6.5M in a funding round, and launched a new platform to help people compare pay and culture between companies. Comparably's website lets users see what people are getting paid for jobs, across different companies.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The company--which connects people in the local technology industry with startups and others through a "distributed festival"--said the funding came from Obvious Ventures, True Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Transmedia Capital, Freestyle Capital, and Foundry Fund, along with a long list of angels. in a seed funding, the company disclosed today.

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MARCH 17, 2016

Here are three Southern California startups who thrived despite--or maybe even because of--downturns. Just two years later, in 2010, the company had a successful IPO. The company was eventually acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion. >.

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MAY 19, 2013

If you live in LA please turn up to vote on Tuesday. Consider the case of LegalZoom, one of our cities great startups. In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Startups that consist of at least one USC student or alum (less than 10 years from graduation) are encouraged to enter – and have a chance of winning up to $25,000! Silicon Beach @ USC will feature game-changers and thought leaders from Hollywood studios, technology startups, and academia. Afterwards admission goes to $150.)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

But, if you think about a business, as it scales, you end up collecting lots of data, and important data on your customers, including from different data sources. However, if you see from the exits and IPOs of companies such as MindBody, Cornerstone OnDemand, and Blackline, the enterprise software and B2B area is very fast growing here.

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APRIL 27, 2015

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. Satish co-founded Clorder with Sridhar Sambangi, who was the Chief Architect of Cornerstone OnDemand. We started our services in August of 2012.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

accelerator--which only inspired him to keep working on making his startup a reality and go from just an idea, to a real company. The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. I'm a CPA, and I got my start in the audit practice of Ernst & Young, and was working for years on the audit side of the table.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

The firm recently showed up as one of the fastest growing companies in LA as part of the Deloitte Fast 500 rankings. We caught up with Damir Davidovic, CEO of NEOGOV, to hear about the rapidly growing (and hiring) company. Damir Davidovic: We started working with government agencies in the area awhile back. What is Neogov?

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JULY 2, 2013

Whether you were a startup, an investor, a blogger, a fashionista, or someone just curious about what is happening in Santa Monica aka “Silicon Beach,” the recent Silicon Beach Fest had something for everyone which included panels, parties and more. This advice was helpful to hear as I build up my team.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Startup Pitch Competition. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. Innovation, Technology, and Startups. The conference itself was focused on innovation, technology, and startups. Tucker led the next panel on the topic of mobility in the startup revolution.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. The themes expanded to include both hot new startups, as well as companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, Belkin, and Telesign which have been part of LA tech for more than a decade.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? Starting on the employer side first, we put a big emphasis on design. Chris Ovitz: When I left Viddy, and Reed left Zynga, we both ended up at Scopely. How did you two meet?

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MARCH 3, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup Momstamp (www.momstamp.com) is hoping to change that with its service, which connects mothers with friends, friends-of-friends, and beyond, to personal referrals and recommendations. Why did you start the company? What''s the idea behind Momstamp? We''ve known each other for years.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Snap hopefully will be one, or is one already, and Cornerstone OnDemand, and what Brian Lee has done. In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up. Jamie Montgomery: I think we're just finally coming of age here.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Time sure flies when you’re having fun, or building a startup. What was interesting to learn is that many new shows were incubated online and then picked up for network TV like “Ultimate Surprises” 36 episodes of surprise marriage proposals sponsored by Honda, Match.com and Robbins Bros. Same with CreatorUp.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Adam Miller – Cornerstone OnDemand. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. I had always liked and respected CEO Joe Fernandez but could never get my head around the fact that the Klout was putting up charts showing who influenced me and it didn’t map to the reality I knew in my head. Every startup needs accounting and it’s often a huge distraction and non core.

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