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MARCH 23, 2019

BitAngels is a group of cryptocurrency investors helping to grow the blockchain ecosystem through community events spotlighting new companies. This event will provide investors, entrepreneurs, and blockchain enthusiasts the opportunity to learn about new projects, including security token offerings.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Townhang.com , announced Wednesday that it has raised $700,000, and launched a new site to help people find interesting events, happenings, and activities in their city. Townhang.com said it has so far launched its event discovery service in Los Angeles, Portland, London, and Luxembourg.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2022

The challenge in to know when and how to ask for help, and not let bravado and ego mask anxieties. The best people know when they don’t know, and know how to find the right help. Unfortunately, too many entrepreneurs I know are terrible at finding and accepting help. Seek help or get out. You start playing the blame game.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Santa Monica-based Rowl , which develops apps to help users figure out what is going on around them, said Wednesday that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The company focuses its app on surfacing concerts, sporting events, comedy, and other events nearby a user. The company said the funding will go to enhance its app.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Pasadena-based Goldstar Events , the event ticketing firm led by James McCarthy, has raised a little over $20M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. No details on that funding--which look to be the company's first ever--have been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2018

Los Angeles-based venture investor Upfront Ventures is the lead investor in a startup, Bevy , which develops an online platform to help companies manage community groups and events. According to Bevy, it raised $6.4M

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Newport Beach-based restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill says it is launching an online effort and promotions, to help support under-resource students who are returning to school, in a shift from the company's usual nonprofit fundraising effort.

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JUNE 27, 2012

San Diego-based Eventful , the online website which helps consumers find live entertainment and local events, reported this morning that it has reached 20 million members on its site. Eventful lists local events, concerts, music, movies, family activities, and more. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2011

Redondo Beach-based Loudvine , which operates an online service to help artists connect with their fans, told its users today that it has inked a partnership with event listings site Eventful. Loudvine said all of the events on its site will also be listed on Eventful.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based Event Farm , which provides an enterprise, event marketing product which helps event organizers with invites, guest registration, and more, recently raised $2.6M in a Series A funding. The funding brings their total to over $4M. The startup was founded by Ryan Costello.

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JUNE 14, 2016

In the corporate world, events are more than just an event�they are opportunity to connect with your customers and turn potential customers into buyers. How do you make those events happen? What, exactly, does Event Farm do? We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. It's fundamentally different.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Tech Gives Back , the tech communitys largest corporate service event, was held for the second year in LA on Thursday, October 18th, with 300+ volunteers attending from 60+ companies helping out at eight different volunteer sites: Plastic Oceans in Santa Monica, YearUp in Culver City, Temescal Gateway Park in Pacific Palisades, Harvest Home in Venice, (..)

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Planana , a new online event service, is announcing today that it has launched a service which will connect sponsors to local events. trueRSVP was previously focused on helping to coordinate volunteers and events, and came out of a Startup Weekend event. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based trueRSVP , a new startup founded by a trio of University of Southern California students, is launching today, looking to provide better online event planning. trueRSVP uses priority invites, special algorithms, mobile apps, and other efforts to help sharpen the count of attendees to conferences. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2015

San Diego-based Events.com --founded by one of the co-founders of The Active Network--is hoping to make it easier for event organizers and event goers better plan and find events, the company said this week. events.com eventscom event organizer software mobile activenetwork active network startup launch' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

What is the biggest issue that local event organizers--health and family fairs, sports events, and so on--have? Los Angeles-based Planana (www.planana.com) found out it's getting sponsors for their events. Anna Sergeeva: What Planana does, is it connects sponsors to events, where it's more than just their logo on a banner.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2020

Each half-day Xcelerating Life Sciences forum is dedicated to helping industry leaders develop meaningful partnerships and explore bold new ideas to overcome healthcare’s biggest challenges. Early bird tickets are on sale now for only $99. Grab yours today before prices go up. Can’t make the San Diego.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Please help me congratulate him by Re/Tweeting this post (and following him if you don’t already). Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. And so forth.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The San Diego firm said its new ACTIVE On-site mobile app helps race directors manage on-site check-in, registration, and payment, helping racing staff to manage activities and participants. Active Network said that endurance events like Iron Girl already have been using the mobile app. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based Napkin Finance , the startup which is distilling a lot of difficult-to-understand, but important, financial topics onto simple, "napkin"-like, one page graphical explanations, has made an expansion to its site to cover life events.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve updated my earlier post on Networking Events Los Angeles with some great suggestions from Lorin Cha who I just met through LinkedIn. Lots of scattered events around LA on social media. SoCal Kanban/Lean software meetup Coloft They have a line up of events there. Doing a good job of helping to make events happen.

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JUNE 20, 2012

San Diego-based Active Network , which operates a network of sports-focused websites and services, said today that it is aiming at the growing popularity of gamified, hyper social events with a new portal. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Michael Chasin: LawKick.com is essentially a marketplace that makes it easier than ever to find legal help. How the website works, is the client goes to the website, and indicates what they need help with. If you think about finding legal help, it''s not like you''re buying a t-shirt. What''s LawKick about? READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 12, 2017

“We are pleased to invite you to attend LA Software Craftsmanship’s unConference event! This event will also feature a constant Speed Networking session to help you collaborate with other startup founders, software leaders, tech-enthusiasts in a business matchmaking atmosphere. What is an unConference? Why attend?

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JUNE 7, 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 -- Startup California OC Launch Event. Startup Orange County invites you to our Launch Event on June 13 at the Microsoft Store in South Coast Plaza. Provide valuable resources and education to help startups in Orange County grow fast! Who should attend?

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JUNE 30, 2013

The first “C” stands for Compelling Event. Not everybody who is nice or helpful to you is your “champion.” In order for somebody with IA to be your champion he has to be actively helping you through the sales process. This post is about the second “C” or Champion. Otherwise known as a time wasters.

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MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. We ended up hosting dozens and dozens of fundraising events for millennials, to support those organizations. I think we're actually helping to solve that problem.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010 -- San Diego/Orange County Founder Institute Information/Networking Event. On Thursday evening, September 9th @6pm, the Founder Institute is hosting an information/networking event in San Diego at the offices of Cooley LLP. Founder Institute.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Thursday, October 14, 2010 -- TechStars/DoMoreFaster Event. Entreprenurial Meetup to help Brad Feld and David Cohen celebrate the LA stop on the TechStars / Do More Faster book tour. See [link] (more).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Join us at the largest startup event of the year. This years event will host over 2,000 attendees, hundreds of investors and over 50 exhibitors. The 2023 SoCal Startup Day will feature startups, VCs and Angel Investors from all over Southern California, to meet, network and help startups raise capital.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Founders Institute Event. Founder Institute is hosting an informational event in Los Angeles at the offices of Clearstone Venture Partners. Anyone interested in becoming a world-class founder is invited to learn how the Institute can help. See [link] (more).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

San Diego’s Uprise Energy won the audience vote for best presentation at EvoNexus Demo Day, with a pitch that highlighted how its mobile wind turbines could help alleviate the plight of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria’s apocalyptic devastation.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

[Email readers, continue here…] The answer coming from the best of breed in corporate personnel management is to form a trusted bond with that openly-identified employee, helping that person to manage his or her career within and preparing to follow the company experience. Surrounding yourself with talent'

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APRIL 13, 2015

Is the world ready for another event management software provider? Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology. We want to bring that to Events.com, where if you are an event, but you are not on Events.com, you are not an event.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

A new, Santa Monica-based startup, Level Sports , is hoping to help you with those efforts, by connecting you with an app to help your workout routine--and also link you up workout routines created by others. Level Sports is also running an event to let its users meet the trainers who are behind the workouts in its app.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Tinder, created by startup vets Sean Rad (Ad.ly) and Justin Mateen, uses your iPhone and data from your Facebook profile to help match you with potential candidates for dating. The app uses your social graph and friends, common interests, and geographic location to help you find your date. Three Day Rule.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This event series is for founders looking to level up their fundraising game and gain insights from investors and experts who can help SoCal founders prepare for fundraising. Thursday, September 28, 2023 -- Insider Insights: Ask Me Anything with Jay Goss and Chris Bostick. Hosted by The Alliance for SoCal Innovation.

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