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DECEMBER 6, 2019

For our interview today, we talked with CEO and co-founder Jon Grishpul about the startup, which offers up its services for free to homeowners in the Los Angeles area. How did you start the company? Jon Grishpul: My co-founder, Paul, had been flipping houses for ten years before starting GreatBuildz. What is GreatBuildz?

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Soylent VP of Marketing, Andrew Thomas , to hear how the company finally decided to embrace the nameand the frequent trolling on social mediato instead emphasize the sustainable aspects of its products, as well as the new product line, with Plants, Not People. We ended up developing that for our launch in September.

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MAY 4, 2011

One of the stealthiest Los Angeles startups to emerge in the last few months has been Namesake (www.namesake.com), headed by Brian Norgard and co-founded by Dan Gould. Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly.

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about?

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Dreamhammer is one of a number of robotics and drone-related startups here in Southern California. Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. What''s the story behind the company, and how did it start?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

How did you start working on this? Gabe Gottlieb: My cofounder and I worked at Microsoft for awhile, and were looking at different areas to start a business. Gabe Gottlieb: Pathmatics is in the name, and that refers to how we understand how ads are delivered across channels. We also work with publishers and ad-tech companies.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. How was it you ended up in San Diego?

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

But, the real value is from the consumer side, because we allow individuals to talk to and refer businesses to their friends, and just to their circle of friends. How did you start the business? All of our friends also were having kids, and so we started calling friends about their recommendations.

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MARCH 16, 2017

What I am trying to provide to entrepreneurs, and what I am trying to position and market this to for the entire community, and what eventually delivers on what we've done with our advisory business, is to apply all of our corporate relationships, across tech, media, and Internet companies. Where are you planning making investments?

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. Startups will lead and the whales will follow. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)? READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. Let's start with an overview of the fund. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago. How tough was it to start up a new fund? What do you invest in?

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MARCH 29, 2013

Over the past several years there have been a plethora of incubators and accelerators springing up all over southern California and particularly on the west side of Los Angeles. How you get referred into these shops is a subject for another post. Co Founders Lab. Directory Listing. Represent LA .

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JUNE 27, 2011

Well, you shouldn't have to be -- or at least, that's the premise behind Payoff.com (www.payoff.com), a new startup launching today. I built up the company, the Walz Group, with partners. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner. So, we set up to start up the company.

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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 What were some of the things you thought about before deciding to set up your headquarters in LA?

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Once we decided to do this, we started looking for a Dan.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

The original notion of the company started around the idea of sender controlled communications. Within that, we started to focus early on around the opportunity of applying this in the enterprise, and subsequently, healthcare. Within that, when we started to canvas the verticals, healthcare bubbled up to the top very quickly.

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APRIL 24, 2015

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. Tell us a little bit about this new startup? Derrick Oien: We started ScoreStream three years ago. It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. I was at MP3.com, com, and then Intercasting.

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APRIL 24, 2015

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. Tell us a little bit about this new startup? Derrick Oien: We started Sportstream three years ago. It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. I was at MP3.com, com, and then Intercasting.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media.

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APRIL 18, 2017

They love our service, because we actually give them direct access to who their exact target customer is, which is affluent Millennials, which Nelson refers to as Upscale Millennials, who have good jobs, and don't live in their parents' basement. When we started out, it was all about new revenues and new sales.

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APRIL 10, 2015

We spoke with CEO Benoit Vatere about what the company is up to. We wanted to go beyond the walls, beyond those employees, and build a network of people who want to refer others. benoit vatere interview startup entrepreneur springrole jobs referrals employment scienceinc' How does SpringRole work? That is very limited.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples.

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MARCH 5, 2012

If so, you're probably familiar with the travails of having to find a kennel to place your dog into, are constantly worrying about how your dog is doing in that kennel, and probably are feeling a little guilty, too, about having them locked up all week while you are away. We believe we've come up with a solution.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Within that have own custom cabinet shop, our own metal shop, make our own furniture, and as an offshoot of that, started exploring developing modular, prefab homes in 2005. That's developed into new business in and of it self.

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MARCH 5, 2012

If so, you're probably familiar with the travails of having to find a kennel to place your dog into, are constantly worrying about how your dog is doing in that kennel, and probably are feeling a little guilty, too, about having them locked up all week while you are away. We believe we've come up with a solution.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. Let's start on the technology side--can you tell us about the technology, and its origins? We refer to them as plastic solar panels.

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MAY 7, 2012

By prints, I am referring to anything that hangs on a wall, whether that's a framed photo, framed canvas, acrylic. We understand you have a technical background and an interesting story on how this started? Everything in a transaction, from start to finish, is fully automated. The whole thing, start to.

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