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JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. Bart Molenda: Close5 is a mobile based app that makes it very simple to buy and sell, in particular in your area. However, classifies have not yet caught up with mobile.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Furukawa has previously worked for Yahoo!, ZEFR said that Furukawa had most recently founded his own mobile ad company, and has 15 years of experience in the product management and technology development area. The Enthusiast Network, Kelly Blue Book, and Rubicon Project. ZEFR is venture backed by Institutional Venture Partners, U.S.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Burner''s apps are geared toward helping users add some anonymity to their phone number--for example, when selling items online, or when handing out phone numbers to potential dates. burner disposable phone number android mobile' Now, Burner has expanded its application to Android, and also has upgraded its original iPhone software.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. Launch video embed below. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. Launch video embed below. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo!

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JANUARY 11, 2012

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the location tracking and social sharing software developer headed by Rich Rygg, has launched a new iPhone app, looking to help users track, document, and share their travels. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

The hardest part for us, and what really took the longest is actually the user interface, and making it easy to use, and intuitive, helping to make it clear when people have multiple, different numbers, where those calls are coming in from. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort.

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MARCH 27, 2015

We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! What is urRadio?

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APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The firm said its new "Trips" feature helps iPhone users to take pictures and track their travels, allowing them to share those travels and locations with their friends. The firm said the updated app helps users record and share those trips with friends via Facebook, Twitter, email, text, or within a blog or other web page.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Topspin--which is backed by the Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures--develops software which helps artists market their music, and is headed by Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music. The app allows music venues to scan paper and smart-phone tickets sold through Topspin's software using their iPhone. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. That really helps improve conversion.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. That really helps improve conversion.

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JULY 17, 2012

The round was led by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang , and also included Terry Semel , Greycroft Partners , BV Capital, Morado Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, Inspiration Ventures , CrunchFund, SV Angel and TiE Angels, along with the involvement of Clearstone Ventures. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

I've found that it helps to schedule it, socialize it with your business partners and family and make meditation and exercise a priority. Health is the new wealth and you'd be surprised at how supportive your colleagues, friends, and family are in helping you. That was a lame excuse.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And with mobile you even have the ability to message your users when new content is released which leads to much higher consumptions rates. And ironically many consumer mobile apps are more of hits-driven businesses than video is today. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!,

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MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow.

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MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow.

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MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! David Sacks, Max Levchin, Dennis Crowley, Keith Rabois] will stay and help lead their company in a totally new direction. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! Does Yahoo! has now employed the same strategy. And who cares, right? Year in, year out.

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APRIL 24, 2012

He saw the power of user generated content, and the power of building a passionate community online, which certainly led to a good thing with Yahoo. I got involved with Steve, to help them figure out gamification. It's a compelling and unique way to help them with the social, mobile, and local marketing challenges they are facing.

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JULY 22, 2019

There are lots of resources available to entrepreneurs in the industry, but they are not necessarily that easy to access, whether that's deep insight into how to work with the government or with NASA, or how to work with the big primes, we felt that we could help create that resource. Mattt Kozlov: Yes, it's a three month format.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Hootsuite helps you publish and track content by connecting to all of your social media accounts. From Google Maps, Apple Maps, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo, Yelp and more, Yext lists your business for you and keeps your data accurate so you can be easily found by your customers. Here is our list: Hootsuite. Yext puts you on the map.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. One, is we give them software--known as an ad server--which helps them manage different ad streams they have.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. Think of the Amazon affiliate program where you’re paid if you help Amazon sell books (I think on average Amazon pays about 7% of sales).

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AUGUST 22, 2014

I had heard about someone who was quite successful in paid search arbitrage, which is a method of buying traffic and licensing a search feed from Yahoo, and was able to buy media in non-search and drive that traffic to that search advertising, making a profit on the difference. About five years ago, I got into digital advertising.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

The invitation-only attendees included founders, business development leaders, and marketing directors from companies big and small, including NBCUniversal, Mobclix, DDB Los Angeles, Airpush, adly, Mobile Roadie, Disney Animation Studios, BetterWorks, and more. Having previously worked at notable companies including Myspace, PayPal, Yahoo!,

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JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. How long has Bccthis been around?

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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

The partnership is expected to offer working-class professionals access to job listings directly posted within Kaleio’s Marketplace and additional job and internship listings from leading companies, including Amazon, Google, Starbucks, The New York Times , Yahoo!, Mashable, and several others.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

UCLA’s ASM has partnered with Microsoft, Nokia, WIX, Yahoo! and more to bring a true hack-a-thon to Silicon Beach, helping substantiate Southern California’s thriving Tech Community. The details of this event are quite amazing.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup.

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JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. We really love the model, because it's so hard to start a business, and the focus the accelerator model provides helps.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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JULY 28, 2017

In a world where there seems likes there is a major, security breach every day, where usernames and passwords are just not enough because they keep getting stolen, and where hackers have even started to hijack people's mobile phones to break into accounts, what do you do? Why hasn't having a phone as a second factor helped?

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