socalTECH

JULY 11, 2017

According to Soylent, it started offering up its "nutritionally complete, ready-to-drink meals" at 18 of 7-Eleven's stores in the Greater Los Angeles area on Monday, including a number of locations across Los Angeles, plus Santa Monica, Culver City, Venice, and elsewhere. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Walter Grieves: Our goal is to bring together universities, startups, and investors in one place. It's up to the community.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile lifestyle games aimed at women and others, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The popularity of setting up a startup on Silicon Beach is pushing up office rent on the Westside of Los Angeles, according to an article from Businessweek posted Tuesday. Photo of Amplify's building in Venice, courtesy of Amplify. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. We caught up with Rachel recently to hear more about the company. I got my MBA at stanford, and got to work at companies like eBay, HotWire, and Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. Yes, Google won. LA By The Numbers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

Venice-based starutp Flkidate , a developer of mobile dating applications, said today that it has debuted a new set of features. The startup is headed by Nick Bicanic, and says it is being advised by Don Dodge (Google), Ryan Holmes (Hootsuite), and Vinny Lingham (Gyft). The app runs on both iOS and Android. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

High tech startups--and the service providers who serve the industry--are continuing to cluster along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, as Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , one of the Los Angeles legal firms focused on the high tech market, announced a grand opening date for a new office on the 3rd Street Promenade.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Silicon Valley?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2015

Luxe Valet , a new, on-demand valet parking app startup, has expanded into Los Angeles, saying that it will offer up its valet parking service to users in Santa Monica, Downtown LA and Venice. a day for the service. a day for the service. Luxe says its team comes from companies such as Groupon, Tesla, Yahoo!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

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. the "startup culture" at the company as among reasons to work for the company.

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APRIL 18, 2019

The company started the year with no revenue and at it’s peak had a run rate well in excessive of $100 million / year. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. They were new, they were strange, they were ridden mostly by young people?—?they they were highly visible.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. But it was the low-key, creative beach vibe of Venice and Santa Monica that spurred a spate of start-ups to seek offices and homes. In West L.A.,

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. What started as sheets now has dozens of SKU’s.

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MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). The news that Ynon Kreiz is joining to run the company as Executive Chairman was first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD (and later picked up by Variety , AdWeek and several other traditional media outlets.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

It wasn’t until I brought up my concerns to my investors, after raising money for my action sports company, that those worries were dissolved. We must shift our mindset starting by disassociating nice from weak and then focus on demonstrating confidence. Join me by clicking here. He is both a friend and mentor.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This San Francisco startup has amassed an impressive portfolio of innovative products that have the potential to disrupt content distribution in Hollywood and everywhere else. To put this technology into perspective, let us take a step back for a moment and explain what the future of television and content is shaping up to look like.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand. We live in Venice, and our back house is sort of our operations center. We're learning more about how Google Shopping works, and looking to dominate there. It's really exciting, and we're fired up. Your last venture was venture backed--how about this time?

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JULY 10, 2012

It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. I think that’s one of the reasons that many of the most interesting bay area startups are choosing to locate themselves in the city. And make-up artists. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. As a result younger people are creating startups because they can.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2015

Self-aware startups often learn more from their failures than from their success. Since I’m already home, I can’t justify getting up from my laptop and relaxing. All meetings were scheduled during those hours which opened up the rest of the day, creating long stretches of uninterrupted work. Dropbox for design assets.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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