socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. This event brings together diverse companies and provides an outstanding opportunity for networking. 50% registration discount for friends of socalTECH. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Santa Monica-based on-demand, scooter rental service Bird said on Tuesday it has launched a new program, which will let anyone build and operate their own Bird e-scooter network. Bird said it will create a customized website for those entrepreneurs, and provide "everything you need to manage your fleet of e-scooters".

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Platform Entrepreneur Santa Monica Demand 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. You are self funded too, we recall.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Earlier this week, the Tech Coast Angels , the largest and most active organized angel group in Southern California, announced a new effort to create an angel group network, which will share and syndicate deals between groups--current the TCA, Golden Seeds, and Band of Angels. Why band together for an angel network?

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Technical Review Networking Angel Tech Coast Angels 145

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

However, Mobigirl Media (www.mobigirlmedia.com), a new mobile advertising network, is looking to change that by specifically creating an ad network focused on girls. Jennifer Noonan: Mobigirl Media is the only mobile ad network targeting girls. We''re not the first mobile ad network. What are you all about? READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Networking Media Advertising 208

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

According to Nimble, the offer--available to all veterans and active-duty members of the US military--is aimed at helping both job seekers and entrepreneurs. Nimble's software is used for managing business contacts, professional networks, customers, prospects, and more. READ MORE>>.

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Software Santa Monica Software Development Activity 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. ” Brad went on to address the issue of a diluted entrepreneur talent pool and its potential impact on the efficacy of new accelerators. I think it’s a huge positive.

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Startup Incubator Doc Mentor 270

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars.

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Capital SoCal Southern California SaaS 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

Advertising 113

Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? The Tech CEO Network is there to fill the gap. John Morris: I think it's trying to make a decent connection with customers, and trying to assess the size and viability of the market. To better understand what they're trying to do, we spoke with both Richard and John about the group.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2012

One key are is learning how to network. In our Insights and Opinions section this morning, Matt Crowley , a startup attorney and author of Getting in the Game: Guiding Your Startup Through the World of Venture Capital and Angel Investors , talks about networking skills. Networking skills aren't obvious. Continued.).

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Networking Guide Venture Capital Research 168

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based Telesign, which is headed by serial entrepreneur Steve Jillings, said that the acquisition will help it improve its fraud prevention services. Financial terms of the move were not disclosed.

Commerce 213

Commerce Acquisition Mobile Los Angeles 213

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have social networking and advertising backgrounds. And, it is a social network. A social network without people is an oxymoron.

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Social Network Startup West Hollywood Ideas 273

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was most striking was the diversity and breadth of the node-network that defines the region--so complex and at times, overwhelming.

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Southern California SoCal Pasadena Startup 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns (www.happyreturns.com) is solving that issue, with a network of "return bars" it has opened in partnership with physical retailers. We do that through a network of physical locations, which we call Return Bars, all around the country. Customers heavily adopted in-person returns.

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Training Customer Custom Software Review 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. But my thing has always been supporting startups and entrepreneurs at an early stage. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Invest Southern California Startup Incubator 154

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2010

Coffee chain Starbucks , the second home of startup entrepreneurs and frequent makeshift offices of many a startup or technology professional in town, is going to open up free Wi-Fi for its customers. Alternately, customers were forced to pay AT&T for a la carte or monthly access.

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Journal Conference Yahoo Customer 208

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. You said it's a combination of virtual worlds and social networking sites like Facebook--how does that integrate together? Thanks for the interview. What's the idea behind Worlize? How did the firm come about?

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Social Network JavaScript Startup Platform 239

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

One way is getting funding from your potential customers. That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. It's just nowhere as efficient as it is in technology.

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Startup Equity Venture Capital Ideas 223

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

The NSF determined eight to ten years ago that the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants they were funding to academic teams, to commercialize technology, they were losing, because not many academics had the background to understand how to go out and source customers, and did not know how to run a startup.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin. The whole concept behind PromoJam, is that it's a one stop shop to come and build promotions, which you can launch across multiple networks to reach different targets.

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Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. Over the past few months I've been building my networking, and we've done about a deal a month so far. I think the right team and network are very important, as is traction, validated by customers.

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. It provides consumer rewards, and on the merchant side, it allows them to identify local customers and reacquire them by pushing them offers and incentives to come back. What is Punchcard?

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Fortunately, the Director of Global Customer Experience at Google, became our first investor, so we could start and figure out the content problem for small and medium businesses. One of the keys to solving the content problem, is to be able to find an approach to service customers, without dedicating a ton of account management resources.

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Help IP Content Google 133

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. What is CareerArc?

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. We do that methodically.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Most professionals know that networking is the key to building their business and finding new opportunities, but don't necessarily know how to go about doing so effectively. A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Zenvoy (www.zenvoy.com) is looking to change that, with a service that helps match professionals with one-on-one networking.

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Startup Organization ACG Networking 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks. First off, can you help us understand where Airhop fits into the 4G networking market? Thanks for the time today.

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Networking Startup Software Tips 153

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Jonathan Neddenriep: So, the core of what we've built in Postie, is a machine learning stack that ingests who your current customers are, and figures out who across every household in the United States is most likely to become a customer based on that data. We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100