socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2012

The startup said Monday that it has added a new way to organize employees on BetterWorks by group, including by department, interest, titles, or more; provided better roles and permissions to administrators; and also added new tools to help manage charges on corporate accounts. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

Retention Science is using big data techniques to help model online visitors, and figure out how to convert them into cusotmers. Retention Science is using big data techniques to help model online visitors, and figure out how to convert them into cusotmers. The firm was co-founded b YJerry Jao and Andrew Waage. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the startup run by Paige Craig, which is developing a service to help companies manage and offer employee benefits and perks, has upgraded its product features.

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Santa Monica Class Demand Platform 178

socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2011

The company said the information will help companies build the best solution for their particular company culture. BetterWorks is headed by Paige Craig. The new feature provides charts, graphs, and other insights into how employees are using fringe benefits providers from BetterWorks. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2011

AngelList helps broker individual angel investments in startups. According to AngelList, Los Angeles was third in the list of top five locations with activity on the service. That list included Silicon Valley, New York, Los Angeles, London, and Chicago. The service said it has given 8000 introductions and brokered 400 investments in startups.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based ShareSquare , a new startup focused on the QR Code creation area, has launched its services this week, focusing on helping musicians and entertainers create QR codes. ShareSquare's services focused on helping artists and promoters to create QR codes and place them on merchandise, flyers, and other promotional materials.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based BetterWorks , the employee perks and benefits firm headed by Craig Paige, has expanded its platform again today, saying that it is now handling in-office catering through its system.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Thanks to our readers, who helped to suggest people to include in this list, as well as our nominating committee, a group of insiders in the industry who helped us to make sure we had good exposure to the people who are making waves in the community.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The group has affiliated itself with TechStars, through the TechStars Network, an effort which is part of Startup America to help spread best practices for venture incubators throughout the nation.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Stuck on the side of a road, and need some help? Traditionally, you either had to be a member of a membership service for roadside help--or you had to pay an arm and a leg for a tow. Our first check was from Paige Craig, with the largest investment he''s ever made to-date. Corey Brundage: It was a bit of a whirlwind.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

In LA’s case, numerous individuals and businesses laid the foundation that has helped our community grow and thrive. Communications professionals like Nicole Jordan who tirelessly beat the drum for LA and convinced individuals like myself and Paige Craig to relocate here at a time when nobody would take it seriously.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2011

You’ll be hearing from; Brady Brim-DeForest , Daniel Paul , Hunter Owens , Paige Craig , Sean Percival , Zak Kukoff and many more speakers to be announced shortly. About Teens In Tech: Teens in Tech Labs provides tools and resources to young entrepreneurs world-wide to help encourage entrepreneurship at a young age.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2012

Those in attendance were some of the local #VegasTech scene, however they also had a few speakers come out from outside the area like Paige Craig CEO & Co-founder of BetterWorks, who gave a great talk on building a passionate community (video above). Welcome to Tracky from Tracky on Vimeo. Sarah Evans PR.

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Social Media Incubator Conference Entertainment 96

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

Garrett was most recently a venture capitalist at Crosscut Ventures, who helped identify and fund ShoeDazzle--co-founded the company with Beal, a fashion industry insider who was introduced to Garrett by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig. Brian Garrett: We were introduced through Paige Craig.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

ShareSquare recently received a $150,000 seed round of funding form angel investors Paige Craig, John Frankel of ff Assett Management, and Hacker Angels' Jeff Miller and Roy Rodenstein, among others. We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company. However, one way the U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? Scot Richardson: In a nutshell, we're a WordPress for venues.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

We're now doing events, beyond the Hollywood space, for companies like Haute Look, where we do a model search--which ultimately helps them brand their company and grow their mailing list, but it is kind of wrapped in a contest to find new faces for their spring campaign. But, there was no good for Hollywood to find them. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers. What is Retention Science?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2013

You helped so many figure out how to approach angels. You were so excited when you got to help me. And I know that you enjoyed helping other people and returning favors more than you enjoyed looking after yourself. I remember reading about Paige Craig’s skiing accident. Please don’t email David Hornik.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

Cool Car Pools for example, an application to help co-workers locate each other that they could carpool with, demoed an entire use case for us. As the night wrapped up, I was able to catch up with two of Betterworks finest, Sizhao Yang and Paige Craig on their thoughts of the event’s outcome. But this event was special.

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LATechDigest

MAY 22, 2016

” The Q2 Investor Festival follows the success of previous Investor Festivals, which have drawn panelists and public speaking engagements from the likes of Paige Craig (Arena VC), Suzy Ryoo (Smashd Labs), and more. That’s the only reason we do these events.” This event is for Expert DOJO Academy Members only.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The group collectively has founded, operated, and helped scale many of the most successful Internet companies including eBay, Google, Green Dot, HauteLook, LinkedIn, Live Nation, AT&T, StubHub and TripAdvisor. Who is assisting MuckerLab with their mentorship ? Who is assisting MuckerLab with their mentorship ?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Given all of the work you've been doing with helping other entrepreneurs out, what is the biggest message you are trying to get to entrepreneurs and startups? Are there any local investors you think are particularly helpful for people to know? People like David Travers and Nate Redmond.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). When that happened, I came out to LA and helped to co-found Amplify.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

This not only allows Bird to have advantages in right-sizing city inventory levels and proper placement to maximize yield, but the company has already been providing this data to cities to help them better plan their cities of the future. This is why so many great LA funds like Upfront, Greycroft and B Capital Global have all backed Bird.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka. Helping Startups Get Exposure – Startup Demo offers a handful of startups an opportunity to showcase in an expo-style for FREE. StartupDemo partners Mixergy & AsAble.com have just announced their VC/Angel investor panel for the event. Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Mark Suster , GRP Partners.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. Since my background is in environmental sciences, as well, I couldn't help noticing all of the things that hadn't been addressed properly. We think we're opening up another channel to help companies monetize.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

I argued it in my post on how social proof helps fund raising with angel investors. Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games). rings true to me.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. Definitely was a helpful talk and seemed to really made a huge difference — we’re very lucky to have Tyler here in the community and drop by.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. We also talked about Elevation Partners who invested in Palm and how this deal really salvaged their investment, which was a VERY big bet on Palm.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Exceptions exist, such as the highly self-aware Paige Craig, who recently described how he missed out becoming Airbnb's first investor. Per the email below, Jeff leveraged his discussion with the industry expert to enlist his help with future investors. Also, I'm curious if you could help us out a little.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

When he was 23 years old in 1993, Sky heard about the Internet and realized that it was the future, not the next wave, not a “passing trend” Following Earthlink’s incredible success, Sky founded eCompanies, an accelerator that helped spawn LowerMyBills.com, JAMDAT Mobile, and business.com. Comment help. Paige Craig also.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In fact Paige Craig has coined it Silicon Beach. And Mark Suster has been fostering an environment to help find and grow the best and brightest new LA tech companies with LAunchpad. Opportunity #4 – We are Building our Own New Tech Hub – Silicon Beach. Some of the past events & videos are linked to below.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. Thank you @eminutes. . Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. VC/Angel Panel.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

There will be technical and product mentors there to help. Come by yourself and team up or bring your engineering/product design friends. We can have teams of 2-5 people comprised of engineers and UI designers. Sunday August 14th 9am-5pm. Whatever is done is done. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm.

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