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JUNE 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content network headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has launched a new "Talent and Expert Network," which will highlight entertainment personalities through its site. Demand said it is working on two additional projects with Potts for its various media properties.

Demand

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JULY 10, 2012

And sci-fi writers are but one example of the way society impacts technology. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. In LA the VC shift is clearly to Santa Monica / Venice, home of Rustic Canyon, Greycroft, Anthem and just about every incubator (Amplify, Launchpad, Mucker, Science). Our lease runs out in 2013.

Technology

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APRIL 8, 2014

We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach. 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?

Seed Funding

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Looking to tap into the developer community, Santa Monica-based car information site Edmunds.com said today that it has opened up a new application programming interface (API), which will allow software developers to access its full database of new car and used car specification and pricing. READ MORE>>.

Edmunds

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AUGUST 10, 2009

I’ve posted three people’s examples to the left. Search for Jen Raymond and you’ll get 2 of them – neither one is the Jen Raymond who works for Pfizer and lives in Santa Monica. UPDATE: People have made the fix and say they still don’t appear in the search results. Second is Jen Raymond.

Tips

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Chromatik is based in Santa Monica and headed by Matt Sandler ; the firm's investors include 500 Startups, Kapor Capital , LaunchpadLA, Learn Capital , and MuckerLab. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education. Miso Media.

Southern California

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Editor's note, TuesdayNights is running its Impact Conference in Santa Monica on Friday, where we are a Media Partner) Photo: Left, Melinda Moore and Right, Justine Lassoff. Justine Lassoff: One example of these intimate gatherings and events, is we did a luncheon featuring the CFO of Goop. What is TuesdayNights?

Help

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

I’m hoping to speak later this year in Philly, for example, where I’ll likely be in November and/or December (also in Annapolis so maybe Washington DC and/or Baltimore?). Startup Matchmaking (Wed 5th Oct – Santa Monica) - The first event is tonight (Tues, Oct 5, 2010) at Wokcano in Santa Monica.

CalTech

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. One example is Santa Monica-based hardware company, Ring, who transitioned to a hybrid business model that now includes recurring revenue. In the interest of full disclosure, Headspace is a client of SVB Santa Monica.

Santa Monica

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APRIL 7, 2011

Todd is now Chief Operating Officer of Marmol Radziner (www.marmol-radziner.com), an architecture and construction company, which recently installed a eco-friendly mobile home park project in Santa Monica which was focused on applying clean and eco-friendly technologies to the pre-fab building market.

Santa Monica

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APRIL 18, 2010

I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. For example, in the screen shot my my recent visitor found my website by searching on the term “Jason Calacanis&# and is located in Tennessee in the US.

Blogging

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Santa Monica-based healthcare communications software developer TigerText has announced a new set of scheduling automation tools, the company said on Thursday. For example, the "on call cardiologist" for a hospital might change depending on the schedule during the day, with messages automatically routed by those roles.

Tool

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JUNE 20, 2014

We spoke with Kevin Winston, the organizer of Silicon Beach Fest (www.siliconbeachfest.com), which is currently going on in Santa Monica and runs through Saturday, about the energy here in Southern California, as well as a little bit about what''s going on with the event this year. We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin.

Santa Monica

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JUNE 11, 2012

That's what Santa Monica-based EventUp (www.eventup.com), one of the first companies to emerge out of Santa Monica-based Science Inc. , How do you cut out all of the effort required to discover, find, and book venues for your event, wedding, or conference? is trying to figure out. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based on-demand, scooter startup Bird has rolled out an upgrade to its scooters, saying last week that it has launched the Bird Two , a new scooter that includes 50 percent more battery, self-reporting damage sensors, and other new features. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica

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JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. We're in Santa Monica, and sometime people think we're a venue or rental space for events, but what we are, is a 100 percent software company.

Sales

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference.

Cornerstone OnDemand

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MARCH 17, 2010

DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway. But if you grow to be that big it would be a very nice problem to deal with.

Company

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JUNE 6, 2011

I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. We've also been working on a location, and we have some places identified in west LA, Santa Monica. Some examples of those who we have worked very closely with are Ron Garrett, who was the lead engineer on Google AdWords.

Startup

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, Santa Monica-based Parking In Motion , a developer of parking information apps for mobile devices, announced a new round of funding, from IDG Ventures and Fontinalis Partners, the venture arm of William Clay Ford, Jr., Los Angeles actually is not a great example, we're sort of late to this.

Santa Monica

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). LA Female Office Hours. So why is this initiative so important for men, women and other gender identities?

Venture Capital

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JULY 19, 2019

Santa Monica-based Fair , the automotive startup which offers up subscription-based access to vehicles with much more flexibility than a traditional lease, is expanding its partnership with Uber , saying that eligible "Uber Pro" drivers can earn "Fair Credits" to help cover their weekly Fair vehicle payments.

Santa Monica

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JUNE 20, 2012

Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. Last year, I joined up with Mark, and we raised a small fund and opened up an office in Santa Monica, one block from the beach. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners.

Class

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JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is located in Santa Monica. 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. What is Burstly? Ben Satterfield: Burstly is the blanket company for three products.

Startup

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We looked at other sites, such as Cross Campus Santa Monica, and we saw the events they were running, which we went to a lot before they opened a location here. For example, Orange County with medical devices. In some ways, diversity is a strength, but it also can be a limitation in the short term.

Pasadena

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JUNE 8, 2014

A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess.

Startup

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AUGUST 29, 2012

That let people play popular titles, for example, directly in Facebook. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica? They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles.

Rustic Canyon

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OCTOBER 23, 2007

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. A lot of the examples that Amazon used were media related. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system.

Web

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AUGUST 7, 2014

We''d gone to high school together in Santa Monica, and we were both very entrepreneurial in high school. We went from just five people three years ago, to over 1100 full time staff in the Philippines and twenty people here in Santa Monica. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC.

Startup

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APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. Also East of the 405?

Startup

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MARCH 29, 2016

Around half of employees in all areas were satisfied with what they were being paid--for example, 51% of men and 47 percent of women were happy with their pay in engineering--but only 36 percent of women in operations, versus 53 percent of men, and only 28 percent in sales/business development versus 54 percent of men were happy with their pay.

Satisfaction

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Office space will be free and is in Santa Monica, walking distance to the Third Street Promenade. Some recent funding & M&A successes: Here are some examples of recent news from Launchpad LA companies. This is in addition to some great colocation facilities such as CoLoft. Not exclusive and in no order.

Venture Capital

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JULY 31, 2018

Santa Monica-based Cred , a new startup which is being incubated and advised by Mike Jones and Science Inc., The "micro-investing" part of the app rounds everyday purchases--for example, rounding up a $3.55 said this morning that it has launched a new mobile app to help consumer invest and learn about cryptocurrency.

Invest

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JULY 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based SPACES (www.spaces.com), led by CEO Shiraz Akmal and a team of entertainment veterans from Dreamworks Animation, is hoping to do that with a series of physical attractions, powered by VR technology. Our new format lets guests take a journey into amazing experiences together, with their friends. In the U.S.,

Entertainment

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JUNE 27, 2013

I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. The new fund also comes with a move to some new space in Santa Monica? How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? Mark Suster: It''s our best source of deal flow. It''s the single best.

Funding

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APRIL 10, 2012

Surf Air (www.surfair.com), launching out of the Muckerlab startup accelerator in Santa Monica, is looking to create a new way of flying, taking aviation and combining it with the subscription model. That's just an example I pulled out of the air, but we think we'll be more responsive to our customers than a traditional airline.

Startup

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MAY 14, 2013

For example, the most popular people born in Texas, the most popular people who are Geminis, the most popular people for each profession--like the most popular comedian or most popular country singer. Before, you might look up May 20th as a birthday, and we''d sort by age. Instead, we''re now sorting by popularity. Our revenue is solid.

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