socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Is Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis, just about to reveal a new pivot and new corporate name? Inside.com currently only includes a simple web signup form which adds you to an email list from Calacnisd. According to a story from TechCrunch this morning, yes. READ MORE>>.

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Mahalo Santa Monica Course Email 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the online search site headed by Jason Calacanis, rolled out version 3.0 of the firm's web site. According to an email from Calacanis to his private email list, "Essentially what we're doing is making a bigger and better Wikipedia with a revenue-sharing model."

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Mahalo Sites Design Santa Monica 166

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

eduFire , an startup which offers online video classes, apparently has relocated to Menlo Park from Santa Monica, after raising $1.3M The firm's web site now lists Menlo Park as its headquarters, after it raised funding from Battery Ventures, Western Technology Investment, and angel Gokul Rajaram. in a Series A funding.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is continuing his crusade against angel groups and others who charge startups to pitch their groups, saying that he's now calling on groups to stop charging fees, and post what fees they were charging to entrepreneurs on their web sites.

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Keiretsu Westlake Village Mahalo Santa Monica 147

socalTECH

JULY 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." Userplane was acquired by AOL in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier. If someone loves your image of the Santa. building a web site for him. profiles.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Santa Monica-based Docstoc rolled out a new feature for the firm's web-based document sharing service Thursday, which allows users to embed preview links into their web pages of documents on the site. The firm is headed by Jason Nazar. DocStoc competes against competitors like Scribd and Zoho.

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Rustic Canyon JavaScript Santa Monica Web 100

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com).

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. How did this all come about? I ran it for almost a decade.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

It’s a web app that pulls all the content from across your social networks and puts it in one place – your channel. Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). Step 1 — create your CHNL account with a username, email and password. In addition, Web 2.0 We love Web 3.0. What is CHNL? Where is it Based?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. to 11:00 p.m. What: A Startup Demo event.

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. 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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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools. Being that the theme of the night was community, it was perfect that the event was held at CoLoft , a workspace in Santa Monica that focuses on start up entrepreneurs. His email list is everything. Some of you may be thinking, ‘Emails!

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Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. We have spam filters for our email. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? OK, many of you will know this but just to base line.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. They are a unique group of intellectuals with aspirations to truly change how companies do business. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

CODA Automotive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery systems purpose-built for transportation and utility applications. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

CODA Automotive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery systems purpose-built for transportation and utility applications. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. mt) Media Temple, Inc. It happens every day.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc. It happens every day.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. Mobile Web America, Inc. Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Today is the day Solaborate is publicly launching a beta-version of their platform on the web with an iOS and Android mobile apps for those on the road. The idea here is that I was spending hours, hours, and more hours on trying to get content out to my customers through emails. I left the corporate world, to build Solaborate.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc. It happens every day.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. They are a unique group of intellectuals with aspirations to truly change how companies do business. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. The 1st place winner was SnazzyRoom, an online styling tool for mixing and matching items on the web ( SnazzyRoom.com ). Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles.

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Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. They are a unique group of intellectuals with aspirations to truly change how companies do business. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An interesting note: This entire conversation and subsequent article was prompted by an unexpected email – “Hey, let’s cover this. They’ve expanded their sales and operations from Santa Monica to include New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Atlanta. Let’s talk mobile.

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Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. Most Emailed Feed. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A. for that same time period.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Feel free to email or drop a tweet with any questions about the journey, no matter what stage you’re in.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Named as one of the 20 most innovative startups in the country, based in Santa Monica. Mark Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: Why Email Isn’t Dead Next post: The Power of Small Get-Togethers Producing an event? Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Want to sponsor?

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