socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2020

For our interview today, we talked with Eric Friedrichsen , the CEO of Emburse , a developer of expense management and accounts payable software which has major operations in Los Angeles. Captio out of Spain, Chrome River, headquartered in Los Angeles, and mostly focused here in the U.S.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

However, in a very unusual move, the City of Los Angeles has tapped a true technology veteran and insider, well known to those here in the industry-- Peter Marx , most recently at Qualcomm--to head up the city''s efforts to both adopt technology and improve the city''s relationship with its growing technology companies.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The easiest example to grasp is arguably the Kardashian family. Creators take a 60 percent cut of all revenue with the remainder going to Binary Bubbles, the Los Angeles-based startup behind the service. “With Popbase, we are giving them a chance to gamify and monetize their YouTube content and personality.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. years there has been an initiative in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA. Report Card. He previously co-founded Charlie , a Los Angeles based media company and interactive agency.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Theodore Schleifer at Recode reported a rare deep dive into the internal intrigue at a prominent VC firm, in this case Mithril Capital. Today, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) published its updated economic forecast for LA and the Southern California region. Peter Kim via Getty Images.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The wrk benchmark tool reports a peak of approximately 95 megabytes per second transfer rate with pipelining and 35 megabytes per second without. For example, in the multiple query test, Revel currently considerably exceeds Go. HTTP pipelining is the star of the new plaintext test. We are hiring. We have one such opportunity right now.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2012

That's the topic of today's Insights and Opinions article, from Matt Crowley , a Los Angeles author and business attorney, who shares an extract from his new book, Getting Into The Game. The Small Business Administration issues a report that shows, like clockwork, nearly 550,000 new businesses start. The Right Question.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

In yet another example of how the computer and video gaming industry seems to be recession proof, retail video game chain Gamer Doc reported Wednesday that two of its franchisees will soon be opening additional stores.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Eleven-year-old TiMi currently has a team working out of Los Angeles on global business and plans to grow it into a full development studio that “helps us understand Western players and gives us a stronger global perspective,” said the studio’s international business director Vincent Gao.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2017

Sometimes, people will jury rig a marketing tool for this Some others might try a logging tool, or build their own crash reporting. We also looked at people who had great mobile portfolios, media and content, and Saas, which included Karlin Ventures and Rincon in Los Angeles. How do you charge for your tools?

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

For example, if you''re just a major crash on an iPad in Japan. In that example, we can let you know you''re seeing iPad mini crashes in Japan, and start tracking those. We were tracking music across the country, and reporting on what was going on in a city and providing recommendation and lists of events. It just made sense.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles? Gerard Casale: We both have lived here, and worked here, not only as professionals, but as angel investors and startup guys for over twenty years, going on 24 or 25 years now.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

But as we now know 33% of the world’s population is now connected to the Internet, the majority of traffic to the major Internet properties is now global and at Benedict Evans pointed out in his recent report, more than 70% of the world’s literate population will have a smartphone within 4 years. Prices down. Network Up.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. It's nice chatting with you again about your company--you're here in Los Angeles, aren't you? Can you give a concrete example of how that might work?

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. One of the hottest sectors of the technology startup market today is the use of artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning across many different sectors including finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. As you may have seen in a recent report, when that happens, it's death for those businesses. A great example of that, is Dollar Shave Club.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Take the Oscars for example, users will be searching for information on the Oscars before and after the main event. Photos…the final frontier.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. For example, if more people search for socaltech each month, and more users are liking your site, that''s an easy way for Google to see that a site has value.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. In Los Angeles the wins of Overture, Applied Semantics, MySpace, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, LegalZoom and the like have produced a large number of angels who are helping the next generation of LA entrepreneurs get started and succeed.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch TV. Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. Earlier, Colleen reported for Mergermarket, an online newswire and subsidiary of the Financial Times focused on M&A. Examples: TechCrunch and.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2016

Los Angeles-based Crexi (www.crexi.com) has taken two, very experienced teams�one from Auction.com, the other from Burstly (acquired by Apple)�and created a �dream team� completely focused on enabling the transaction side of the commercial real estate market online. So now, they can click a button, and the report is done for you.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. I and my business partner moved to Los Angeles, less than two years ago. Plus, any time there's movement, it reports back real time.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? Underneath that, we also own our own call tracking technology.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? Underneath that, we also own our own call tracking technology.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing? Zareh Baghdasarian: For example, in grade school or high school, students and teachers can communicate, and we allow them to submit homework and forms, do their grade work, post assignments, and receive assignments.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Earlier this week we had the opportunity to sit in at The General Assembly, Los Angeles for a fully stacked panel on a Day in the Life of a Product Manager (PM). Everyone reports updates and obstacles. The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. For example?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

For example it includes the following kinds of things that a CTO should be addressing, but that may not be part of the expectation, time allocation, etc. Here in Los Angeles, it's the LA CTO Forum - a private, invite only group of 250+. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? Accounting?

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

He's now head of Los Angeles-based Zumbox (www.zumbox.com). It's a lot of work to go find all those when you need two years of them when you're audited by the IRS, and need to turn in expense reports, you want your AT&T bill, and you need all those credit card bills to get the information you need.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: For example, we hadn't originally conceived using it as a white label product for corporate branding.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based Tibesti (www.tibesti.com) is launching its new social shopping site this morning. For example, the $30 million dollar bikini, the $1.8 I was using Consumer Reports, and found I had to subscribe or pay a transaction fee to get information, and I also got frustrated by user generated content sites.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

With Dr. Drapeau's permission, the AeA Los Angeles Council is furnishing this insightful speech below: I'm sure that all of you understand that what I'm going to talk about today is my own informed opinion, and not the official position nor policy of the U.S. Washington is run by a CEO reporting to a 535-member Board of Directors.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

source: Strategy Business.com ) A great example of a CEO who changed directions with regards to making a supply chain carbon neutral is Dole Food Co. The agency delivered a report in 2007, estimating that the IT sector consumed roughly 61 billion kilowatt-hours in ‘06, or 1.5% source: Gartner ) Look at the example of Citigroup.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: The process of configuring reports is much more suited for laptop/desktop situation. MW: We like to think ourselves as a layer above all the other services that you may use that have a report. If its got a reporting interface, we are interested in ‘Cojoining’ it. So mobile is a huge part of it.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

The banking system network, including regional boundaries & security controls, is a great example of what can be done when private enterprise understands a need. The report, entitled eHealth 301: Electronic Prescriptions , builds on two earlier reports analyzing electronic medical records and telemedicine.

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