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JUNE 8, 2020

We try to make it very easy for the average consumer to get more financial information, content, and ultimately, product, in the financial industry. We wanted to make the topics, information, and content relevant to people as they came into the ecosystem. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M What is Stackin'? How did the company start?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. Nick Desai: Jack Steinfeld--which everyone knows as Body by Jake--is the founder of Global Fitness Media.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. It''s a perfect opportunity for data geeks in marketing and the business side to get information on customers in real time. What''s your background, and how did you get into this?

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, There are tools and solutions needed to handle Social Media 1.0,

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference). The conference, which does not unveil the names of the companies pitching until the day of the event, rolled out a lineup of Southern California companies ranging from email and instant messaging aggregator Orgoo, to virtual avatar firm mEgo.com.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded email marketer NetCreations, and also has been an angel investor in local startups. However, you'll never see that in the media. It turns out, there is a lot of interest from other companies in that space for that kind of information. You need a third profile.

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JULY 30, 2012

How are you acquiring customers, and why wouldn't they just have someone send them their bill by email? Email lis oppose of what our system is. Email lis the oppose, you have an open system, with unknown senders, spam, and unverified recipients. Email doesn't solve that problem. John Payne: That's an interesting question.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. It was a pain.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. We have them add their name, email address, and input the percent amount. I was a digital media agent at the United Talent Agency for five years, prior to founding Stem. What is Stem?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Unlike working with an agency, which involves lots of emails and phone calls, they just come to our website, sign up, and submit some information on their brand, how they want us to create content, as well as some brand guidelines. Jacobo Lumbreras: The journey is pretty simple. Jacobo Lumbreras: Techstars LA was a huge driver for us.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I've been investing for 17 years in early stage companies, across technology, media, and the internet.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you're a bricks-and-mortar retailer, looking for information on your customers, it's often very tough to figure out who's coming in the door. What we do, is we sit on that point-of-sale machine, and grab information on those transactions. We now have information on 200 million U.S. How do they solve that problem?

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore (www.bitvore.com) has created a system which takes thousands of sources of data, and extracts intelligence out of it to create actionable information out of that vast stream of real time data. Suddenly, everyone is trying to figure out if they need to disclose more information, and need to track that local news.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

It''s very similar to flowers, in that sense that I was working on a deal selling a flower company, and got lots of background information and understanding of the industry as part of our due diligence. We also will be providing more product information and fresh inventory, and pass that information on to consumers.

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APRIL 27, 2015

For managed services, we offer marketing services, including email marketing, social media, Google Adwords, and Facebook ads, which is a monthly recurring charge. Although they might send a lot of business to their partners, they don't share any of their contact information on their customers.

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APRIL 18, 2014

Construction information is not exactly a sexy area--how is it that Garry Winnick became interested in your app, and how did that investment happen? Todd Davis: Today, communications between manufacturing, suppliers, contractors, and end users is disjointed, lacks context, and requires lots of telephone calls, messages, and emails.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. I think the financial vertical offers lots of native ideas, that aren't just display advertised based, because of all of our information and data.

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JULY 23, 2010

Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. For StyleHive, in particular, we're adding a daily email newslette rprogram, and are reaching out to hundreds of thousands of email newsletter subscribers we have who have been underserved.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Most apps are about socialization of content, and displaying different media in those apps, and sending out some push notifications, so it really didn't make sense to make that all from scratch. They can get all of that information through our dashboard. The best apps are very good at all of that.

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MARCH 29, 2010

The two we're disclosing right now are Jerry Neumann, who ran mergers and acquisition for Omnicom, and Josh Styleman, CEO of Reprise Media, which was sold to IPG and became their search product. Jeff Green: The type of data we're using include any payment, which can inform a marketer of your buying decisions.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

So, by pushing these job opportunities quickly to people, through a text, or email, as they occur, they have the opportunity to take their resume and quickly go to the top of the pile. If you're not quick you're not there.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

This dispersed geography prevents entrepreneurs from easily meeting up for both formal functions and the informal drinks/dinner that so often lead to great ideas and partnerships. Plus there are amazing LA tech events put on by DealMaker Media , DigitalLA , Twiistup , and many more. Past Startups Uncensored LA Tech Events.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com).

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

Ethan Senturia: If you''re a company, you can come to our site, give us a call, or shoot us an email. My first professional experience was with a colleage from school, Ampush Media. We have real people here. The site itself is the most efficient way to create a request. It''s pretty successful and continues on today.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. These days, there are more Internet guys at the Vanity Fair Oscar party than traditional media players.". with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008.

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