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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Melani Gordon , Taphunter (San Diego, mobile apps).

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world. You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time.

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Burn This Number After Calling: Greg Cohn on Burner

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I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. In the last year or two, there's obviously been an explosion in mobile smartphone penetration and development of similar services. Greg Cohn: We've seen lots of demand for Android, and also a ton of demand for international expansion.

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Ted Dhanik | Engage:BDR, LA Tech & the Marketing Scene

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As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. So clients can now buy media from us by cost-per-action basis with addition to CPM. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas. It is mainly to sell a lot more media in general and target people better.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Includes 70,000 apps for all major mobile OS platforms, including Apple’s.

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Meet the 15 Eureka Park Startups Competing at CES Startup Night 2018

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For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. Attendees can enjoy signature cocktails and delicious appetizers while they mingle with investors, experts, media, and other techies in the industry that can help build businesses.

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