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As we came in, and started looking at opportunities the Dodgers had in front of them, they saw many great, smart, innovative young companies approaching us. It ended up being a pretty interesting opportunity, where we could create value not just for us, but industry-wide. How did the idea to launch your own accelerator come about?

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JULY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based goFlow is hoping to make that inforamtion as easy as checking out an app, tapping into a crowdsourced network of outdoor sports enthusiasts. How did you go from pro surfing in Israel, to starting a company here in L.A.? Roni Eschel: I grew up surfing competitively, and traveling the world.

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MAY 4, 2011

One of the stealthiest Los Angeles startups to emerge in the last few months has been Namesake (www.namesake.com), headed by Brian Norgard and co-founded by Dan Gould. Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Joel Milne , the CEO of Los Angeles-based RepairSmith (www.repairsmith.com), a startup offering up mobile automobile repair. We are rebuilding car repair from the ground up, in a modern an convenient way. Whats your background, and how did you get started on this?

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com). TX Zhuo: I started my own business out of college, an e-commerce company. I sold it off for a really modest single digit exit.

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MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We caught up with James Segil , the firm's President, to hear the story behind that big growth at the company. We've grown really fast.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Once you've exhausted looking online for tips, Los Angeles-based ProGuides (www.proguides.com) offers up professional, instructional content to help you improve your skills at such popular titles as League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Fortnite. How did you start the company? The first company I created was for the League of Legends.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

We've done lots of titles with DreamWorks, Cartoon Network, Sony, FOX, Nickelodeon, as well as many unpublished authors and many books you have never heard of. Graham Farrar: Really, the company started about two and a half years ago. In part, we started it because we were trying to scratch our own itch.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

We recently spoke with Tyler Koblasa , Founder and CEO of Mingly , a Santa Monica-based startup which is pulling together contacts from multiple sources, and adding such tools as contact reminders, to-do lists, and alerts based on those contacts. Tyler told us about his startup and what it's up to. What is Mingly all about?

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JULY 27, 2020

We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talked with Neal about how he figured out how to wrap those otherwise blank and empty trucks with ads, to help advertisers such as Ring, Mercury Insurance, MedMen, and others to run their marketing campaigns through a growing network of independent truck owners. We spoke with Neal about the startup. What is Boxi?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. SocialEngine is four years old, and that's the startup we applied to TechStars with.

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MARCH 14, 2017

We spoke with founder and CEO Aaron Robin to learn more about the app and how it started, and how the company is hoping to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health support. We've combined online therapy with phone calls with licensed professionals, and also added an online social networking aspect and mood checkup.

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MAY 25, 2016

We caught up with Jim Armstrong to learn more about the new fund, areas of interest, his insights into what makes startups successful, and where he thinks the venture market is today. There's also a great network effect happening in the area of industry clouds, and network capitalism, which is not just marketing poof.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. At this time, we have ten startups, and are starting to click and do some exciting things. It's a place where companies can network with each other, collaborate the business, in a brainstorming atmosphere.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We caught up with Rachel recently to hear more about the company. Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. How did you end up in Los Angeles? What is FEM? READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. What is BakeSpace?

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JULY 8, 2013

We caught up with Michael to learn more about what Gradient X is doing, and why the three have teamed up at the company. So, we came together from our perspective areas to start our own company. Michael Lum: There are definitely a lot of mobile ad networks out there. Why tackle mobile?

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JUNE 13, 2011

Exatly a year ago was the very beginning of KarmaGoat, where I was trying to come up with something that would work as a marketplace donating items. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. Because of that, I indirectly ended up with a good amount of shares in Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

So do you think the environment still tough for startups? Investors are very focused on diligence, on business models that make sense, and those companies that have a definite competitive advantage and defensibility to what they're doing. For example, our LA network is having the Fast Pitch on the 24th at UCLA. Interestnig.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

We spoke with Jon Knarreborg , co-founder of Bragstr (www.bragstr.com), a new Los Angeles startup, about how the company's new social game lets you prove your sports knowledge and prediction skills by challenging your friends in a virtual fantasy league, revolving around wagering virtual currency. People start with an equal amount.

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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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. So, they just ave up. As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform. We''re next day TV with the networks. What''s the story behind M-GO? Stay tuned there.

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JUNE 28, 2013

To figure that out, they started building tools to help them sort out Beachmint''s advertising efforts. We caught up with William to learn more about how his experience at Beachmint led to the creation of CampaignEQ and its ad optimization tools. We definitely stand out in that respect. It''s a problem for everyone.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

We spoke with Adam Arrigo , CEO of the startup, to learn more about what the whole idea behind The Wave's VR software is, and how the company it looking to apply VR to the music industry. Our fans can be networked into that virtual venue as avatars, live from anywhere in the world. How did you start The Wave WR?

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MAY 7, 2009

To try to understand what the company is up to, we spoke with the firm's President and CEO, Ken Hubbard. How did the company start? Ken Hubbard: About a year and a half ago, we spoke to a company called Vircas, which provides high definitive Internet television. We developed a platform for them.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

That's what Braden Richter , the CEO of Los Angeles-based LuxeYard (www.luxeyard.com) is looking to do with the new startup, which combines the world of home furnishings with the concept of flash sales. How did you end up at LuxeYard? Switching topics, what's the biggest lesson you've learned so far starting up the business?

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

For today's thoughts, we have Lief Morin , founder and CEO of KeyInfo (www.keyinfo.com), a regional systems integrator which provides compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for advanced software-defined data centers. KeyInfo has also been a big sponsor for socaltech over the years).

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

One of the new developments in that battle, has been the entry of a Silicon Valley startup, Flywheel , into the war. Flywheel offers up software and hardware which enables those same, Internet- and smartphone-friendly features--not for ridesharing services--but for the traditional taxicab services. We''re focused on taxis.

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APRIL 3, 2019

We caught up with Randy Saaf , the CEO of Lucid Sight, to learn more about how exactly the company is doing that, and why. Randy Saaf: Me and a couple of buddies started on of the first iPhone gaming companies back in 2008, called Jirbo. We founded Jirbo, and grew that, until it eventually became the large ad network, AdColony.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization. How did you start the company? Scott Chisolm: Actually, the organization started as a charitable pub crawl, for the cancer society here in San Diego. What was your background before you started the company? What is Classy?

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

Josh Hartwell: We officially incorporate in 2003, though we started laying groundwork for the company in 2002. We started back then, because my other co-founder and I had worked very closely with JAMDAT on JAMDAT Bowling and Fifa Soccer. That definitely aided in the transition. Can you talk about how you managed that?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. Idris Manley: It's definitely both. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks. How did you start NativeTung? We spoke with Idris Manley , founder of NativeTung, last week, to hear more about the company.

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JULY 20, 2011

She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago. It was an opportunity I didn't want to pass up.

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