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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

LaughStub joins local companies such as Fandango (LA - movie tickets), RazorGator (LA - sports tickets), Paciolan (Irvine - ticketing systems), not to mention ticket giant Ticketmaster (West Hollywood) in the high tech-meets-ticketing area. No details on the angel funding for LaughStub have been announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

Orange County's latest, high tech employer, Zillow , launched a grand opening of its new offices on Michelson Drive this week, saying that it plans to hire up to 100 people in its new office in the location. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

Remember the Crock-Pot, that stable of busy mothers (and garage sales) everywhere? The new Crock-Pot is quite an upgrade on what has--until recently--been one of the least high tech devices in any home, consisting of just a ceramic container with a heating element. The new six quarter cooker costs $129.99. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Center in Los Angeles, with plans to build out a team providing product management, sales, and engineering in the location. The company explained that the new Los Angeles offices comes as it recognized "the value of being in the high-tech center of America." READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

In what looks to be an unprecedented surge in high profile, high value exits for high tech companies in Southern California, there have now been six big exits in the region over the last month worth over $100M. Those exits--worth more than a collected $3.8

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Iguchi most recently ran his own high tech sales and service consulting firm, serving clients Intruvert Networks, Senforce Technologies, and Brightmail Technologies. Local.com said Iguchi has previously also served at Cisco Systems and Software Publishing Corporation.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Illinois, which follows states such as Colorado, North Carolina, and Rhode Island to pass similar laws, is hoping to bolster the state's balance sheet by forcing Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on its behalf. California also has similar bills in motion.

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APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. The company has grown very rapidly and well for a startup, but we're now at the point where sales is the name of the game. We have to match up our sales and marketing systems to drive growth of the product.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Nick helped orchestrate the successful sale of the company to Velocify partner and leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, Ellie Mae.

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MARCH 25, 2010

The firm said the funding came from high tech execs Vahid Manian and Massoud Dabir. The firm said it will use the funding to expand marketing and sales efforts at the company. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. At Archer, we had two very successful exits with the sale of Swoop, our healthcare data business and the sale of Credit Karma to Intuit.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have a piece from Megan Jones , an investment banker from Hadley Partners Incorporated: As I often say, I grew up in and out of Silicon Valley with a dad in high-tech. Basically, a company sale instead of an IPO. Read more of Megan's article on changing Exit Strategies for 2010.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Examples: After successful sales of their prior companies to Google, Ryan and Chad Steelberg are back with BAT, while Gil Elbaz is making big news with Factual. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). Are you a part of Southern California's high tech economy, and do you have some knowledge and expertise you'd like to share?

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Camarillo-based DEX, a provider of supply chain services to the high tech industry, said Wednesday that it has bolstered its executive ranks. Kohnke was most recently Executive Vice President of Logistics and Distribution at UPS, and Cain was most recently VP of Service Sales at Solectron.

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JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Before co-founding Alteryx, Libby held various sales, customer, and marketing roles at Strategic Mapping, Donnelley, and VNU Business Media. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Gregg also spoke to us about how the move of Active Network out of San Diego-a huge dislocation for the local high tech communityactually benefited Events.com, by allowed it to quickly ramp up its employee base and offerings, particularly since one Event.com''s Chairman was a co-founder of Active.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. They have hundreds of millions of dollars deployed against energy and digital and high tech investments. So how does this fit into the mobile world and B2B?

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MAY 24, 2011

I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. I got the bug from that startup, plus the hard work and work ethic of bootstrapping.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We also have launched directly to customers, and this became available for sale on our website back in January. Plumbers are not exactly known for their adoption of high tech products. Our two main distributions today are we sell direct to consumers, and we also sell through plumbing distribution, directly to plumbers.

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JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. The way sales are handled is as old as the 1930's securities laws.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Those could be mobile professionals, corporate firms, sales people, or people who normally work at client sites or home based offices. It seems like there are quite a number of high tech clients using your space? Many of those people have been stuck at home, because there were no other choices.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Often times, in the world of cell phones and high tech software, you don't know the challenges throughout the process of creating a product. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process. When you have to do something new or different, it might take longer or you might have to add tasks.

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