socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2015

Good news, Fixed , the San Francisco app that helps drivers fight tickets has just launched in Los Angeles after raising an additional $650,000 in seed funding last February. The post Los Angeles, Meet “Fixed” the App That Fixes Your Parking Tickets appeared first on TechZulu. drivers might finally get break.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

The apparent security lapse happened late-Friday before the app went offline “due to site maintenance” a few hours later. “I could see the car was in Los Angeles, where he had been, and he was in fact there,” he added. “Pretty bad f**k up in my opinion,” he said.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site is looking to court developers with the launch of a development contest, the MySpace Developer Challenge , the firm said recently. Judges on the contest include Mike Jones, COO of MySpace; angel investor Ron Conway; Google's David Glazer; and blogger Robert Scoble. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. A lot of software startups have shied away from serving public institutions, despite a big market, due to concerns about how slow they adopt things. What's the next thing for you?

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Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Additionally, due to the fires in Malibu, we have been testing various air filtration system. He is Los Angeles's most active angel investor with more than $2.5B He is also a long-time entrepreneur.

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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. Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Our 2019 investment in Backtracks, a developer of podcast analytics software, has shown fantastic traction and continues to provide value to podcast creators helping them to better understand their listeners and monetize their content. Think Google Ad Words for podcasting. At the same time, more capital continues to be raised in LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We answer these questions and really dive into the LG 4G Thrill in our review below. Some people are opposed to having companies overlay android rather then leaving it as a pure google experience but it honestly doesn’t bother me that much. Sporting a 4.3-inch Out of the Box the LG Thrill 4G runs Android 2.2

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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. Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I have a great network of fellow CTOs, especially in the Los Angeles area. I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. Interviewing and Hiring Process Get a resume and LinkedIn profile and review both closely: Do they know the world of startup technology?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

They came down to Los Angeles, and we brainstormed ideas, and basically--in 24 hours-- we revitalized my original idea, but for the iPhone. Mike Edwards, who is an investor that lives in Whistler, and who is an angel, basically funded it. Mike Macadaan: After MySpace, I had a little bit of downtime.

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Guide Software Review Twiistup Technical Review 203

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I have a great network of fellow CTOs, especially in the Los Angeles area. I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. Interviewing and Hiring Process Get a resume and LinkedIn profile and review both closely: Do they know the world of startup technology?

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 225

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com).

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

Next week is the Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), one of the longest running technology conferences held in Los Angeles. It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based ClickTripz (www.clicktripz.com), is a startup developing ad solutions for travel publishers, and thought we''d learn more, so we spoke with Ross Weber , co-founder and CEO of ClickTripz, to hear more about the company. Ross Weber: We''re not here to replace ad platforms like Google Adsense.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

We gather rich data on a dentists, including where they got their degree, how many years they have been in practice, and patient reviews, plus what technology they employ in their practice. We do marketing, and are marketing on KNX, online, in Google search results. It''s a testimony to Los Angeles as a great startup community.

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Pricing Startup Networking Software Review 227

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. In the first two years we were really focused on getting our product adopted through major channel partners like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google, eBay, ShareASale and others. when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Mentorship.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Team Rise, and their app to help teens manage their budgets and time.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Four months later Allen and Paul raised a Series A round of $10 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners , Google Ventures , SV Angel , Mark Pincus , Lerer Ventures and a convoy of other prominent angels and VCs. SideCar now serves passengers in Seattle, Austin, DC, Philly and, now, thankfully, the City of Angels.

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Google Technical Review Santa Monica Framework 92

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. That might be check-ins, that might be photos, reviews, likes, all of those things are in one place. Rob Reed: I've learned it is not easy.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California. I wouldn't say we're extremely close to anything right now, but we've seen I'd say at least three different companies were we went further than an initial meeting--not a term sheet, but deeper diligence.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. Wow — what a weekend. By 10:00 PM, teams were working away into the night. making this their first SWLA.

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Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

I’ve been working in the online advertising business for about 13 years handling everything from affiliate programs and banner ad campaigns, to search engine optimization and Google Adwords. I was the second employee at a startup affiliate network called Affiliate Fuel here in Los Angeles, handling business development.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. The nearly 300 members of TCA collaborate with each other on due diligence and then make individual decisions regarding potential investments. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. Surprised?).

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country. Hardware + Software The world is filled with investors who will tell you, “We don’t do hardware.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. It’s awesome.

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