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MARCH 5, 2014

We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. Companies were saying--we want to outsource these kinds of things, because they''re not our core competency. Explain to us what Unitas Global does?

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MARCH 1, 2018

Ahead of the conference, we sat down and spoke with Kevin Anderson , co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), a rapidly growing developer of point-of-sale software, on the topic of customer service. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support.

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MAY 18, 2009

For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract. He had a contract which went South, where they couldn't find a paper copy, and they really got hurt in the settlement of a legal challenge. Obie Fernandez gave us a good one.

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JULY 29, 2016

Z also has recently launched a new podcast series , where she talks to entrepreneurs here at the intersection of entrepreneurship and manufacturing. Z Holly: It started with my role as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the city and Mayor Garcetti. We found that entrepreneurs can really help drive manufacturing, and that excites me a lot.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. They have a day job, running the existing business, and they then have to commit more time and effort into building Dentistry.com, to develop the technology, processes, and all we have to do. What is Dentistry.com? So, that's my story. I'll share it.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

We then allow you to use the print cloud, where we develop, print, and mail pieces very easily. If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. What has the biggest lesson you've learned so far as entrepreneurs?

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MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. We've noticed many international entrepreneurs locating here recently, like yourself. We sat down with Forsblom to learn more about what he learned from his experience in Finland, and what he's hoping to do here. I was basically powerless.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

He's been doing contracting for the past ten years, and I have been watching from the side. Finally, what's been your biggest lesson as an entrepreneur? How did you connect with your co-founder and get into this? Jon Grishpul: My partner is actually my uncle! Jon Grishpul: That's good question.

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JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Dolgoff has a fascinating background--he invented the first LCD projector, he helped inspire Star Trek's Holodeck, and he also is a serial entrepreneur who took his company public on the NASDAQ in the 90's.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. What our company is doing, is it is developing an online tool for people to find addiction treatment to meet their needs. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

com), based in Glendale, which has developed new heat energy storage technology aimed at use in the industrial sector. We originally developed this heat storage technology for use in concentrated solar, for collecting heat from the sun. That project is still in the middle of development, capturing 1.5MW of intermittent waste heat.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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MAY 1, 2019

You only call them typically when you need some particular thing done, like a big contract, or some major corporate transaction. At one point at LegalZoom, I stepped away from day-to-day duties, and spent some time developing real estate. It seems almost every entrepreneur has some dream of retiring and not having to ever work again.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Glendale-based Reveleer (www.reveleer.com) is a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, and recently announced a Series C funding round from investors Boston Millenia Partners and Upfront Ventures. The key thing, is that every stays focused on delivering for the customer. We have to understand what success means.

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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 only using our money to pay developers. I was impressed by what he was working on.

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MARCH 19, 2019

You mentioned you were just three people, how did you develop what you did with just three people at the time? Stacy Stubblefield: We were part of the incubator, so we had some other contracted employees who were working and helping us develop the product. They were actually part of the company for several years.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Guz Ezcurra: We have developed a solution that is there for energy management and conservation. I thought we could develop something that was more interactive, such as our touch panel. We've designed a brand new solution, which we've built ourselves, although we contract out manufacturing.

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APRIL 21, 2017

It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. The other thing I see, is trying to outsource all of this stuff your self. I was there for five years, helping them to rebuild their technology from a legacy system, and use cloud-based technology. I help people to avoid making fatal mistakes.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

Ticketing and league development rolled up under me. So new fan development was a critical thing. So, I'm intimately familiar with all of the ticketing contracts, which was critical. That background is unique, in that I'm not only an industry expert but an entrepreneur. Getting them in the door is important.

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JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. The New York Times doesn't know that we've mobilized their site--we didn't need to use their server development team to make this work. That means these sites can be mobilized overnight.

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JULY 22, 2016

For our interview today, we have an interview with Gabe Grifoni , CEO and founder of Rufus Labs (www.getrufus.com), which has has developed an Android-based, wearable device which is aimed at use in the enterprise, warehouses, and factories. Gabe Grifoni: We're just finishing up everything at the Make In LA hardware accelerator.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers.

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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.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5

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