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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets. Who are your other cofounders?

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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, Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. That's where our initial database of products is coming from. Mickie Rosen: There were obviously a number of ways to develop and roll this out. Mickie Rosen: There are a couple of things.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We then allow you to use the print cloud, where we develop, print, and mail pieces very easily. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right.

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MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. How did you get into this? So, it's quite new.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. How did you get involved with angel investing, initially?

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JUNE 30, 2011

The venture capital business itself is going through an even more fundamental change than just the entry of a new category at the earliest stage. That’s certainly good for our industry in terms of future returns for investors but I would argue also for entrepreneurs. But … Downsizing Venture Capital.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Most investors won’t touch a first-time entrepreneur at this stage. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

The device is an alarm-clock like, Internet connected electronic product developed by the firm of the same name, San Diego-based Chumby (www.chumby.com). The firm is now run by Derrick Oien , who an experience entrepreneur, who was the founder of Intercasting Corporation, and a member of the management team which sold MP3.com

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MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. People like free.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that? how does your company stay on top of all of that?

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. OTHER DEALS.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. And the winners? MASKKK the Destroyer, with their child tracker application.

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MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. Get over it.

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JULY 27, 2016

We’re essentially a data platform and envision others building applications to take advantage of this information. Density is simply the data & analytics platform. It’s been so great to collaborate and work towards this common purpose) and with Jonathan Triest at Ludlow Ventures, Amit Kapur at Dawn Patrol and several others.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Using his connections, he was able to raise funding from his family and other investors to co-found Appboy , a customer relationship management platform for mobile app developers and marketers. The ability to build off of an idea and creating a product, service or brand is an awesome feeling. What got you started? About Appboy.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). I had been there for three and a half years. Where is the company now?

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JUNE 9, 2014

We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. Those licensing fees can be pretty amazing.

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APRIL 15, 2019

What we have developed, is an electric mini-bike. One in three riders on our platform are over the age of 35, and many people who wouldn't try a scooter are enjoying our device. We were really passionate about this, and decided to go all-in, and create the next category of transportation company. One, is the form factor.

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. Dev Bhatia: You can think of them as lots of different platforms and devices. s began coding what eventually became the product you see today.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The intent of our Spotlight events is always simple: to provide a live platform to showcase the very companies that our driving our tech/start up industry, to show our hometown investors a handful of worthwhile companies, and to give other founders some inspiration and innovation for their own companies.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. I would mostly lump me in that category. I’m a product geek more than a spreadsheet ninja. Mobile app?

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JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're enabling people with access to the channel, to add energy monitoring to their products.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. We also wanted access to development resources, and we have our product team here, the engineers and designers, all based in Santa Monica. However, our approach is a whole new product category, part of the marketing cloud. The most obvious, is to drive sales.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

The University of Southern California has developed a reputation for innovation and entrepreneurship over the years. The judges, which featured experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and professors, made their way around the groups and listened to the different pitches. Communication was most important.

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MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Seems an obvious fit.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa). Enter Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. It's in the automated translation category of the industry. Idris Manley: I have almost fifteen years in the software industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 13, 2011

What are the most difficult and best things about being an entrepreneur? Good entrepreneurs are people who will bet on themselves over anyone else and if you don’t feel like you can do that, it’s not the right gig for you. Mobile is important for all categories of eCommerce and social commerce. Where have you struggled?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Program head Robert Jadon describes Startup UCLA as more of a pre-accelerator than anything, meaning the the ideas are typically earlier stage and the entrepreneurs less experienced. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Michael Carney.

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MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. “Sustainability is about developing an investment focus around social economic benefits that occur from capital solutions. Let’s Talk Money.

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APRIL 8, 2016

Although we had developed a really good system to manage those fleets, we were not getting the velocity we wanted to get more of our product on the road. In 2011, the on-demand category didn't exist, but in the last four years, the fleet has gone from what was 0 vehicles, to an estimate of 2 million people in the U.S.

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