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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The company said it tapped Survata for the study, which interviewed 501 online respondents. The company said the margin of error for this study at a 95% confidence level is 4.4%. Onestop called Amazon "a very real threat" to online brands' sales.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based digital marketer Connexity has acquired consumer data collection company Hitwise , from parent company Experian , the company said this morning. The two combined deals were worth $47M plus up to $5M in earnout.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

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MAY 17, 2011

New information released in a study of the IPO pipeline, finds that California continues to be the most active market in terms of initial public offerings. According to the Renst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study, California had 25 companies looking to raised $2.2 billion on the market in Q1.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015.

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JULY 15, 2013

A new study released earlier this month has ranked the Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta metropolitan area, as well as the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area among the top ten markets for venture capital activity. in deals in 2012 and 3.3 venture capital deals per 100,000 people. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. Technology investing is the best job in the world, but it can be fraught with failure. Things seem to be moving faster in technology than ever before.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

What's the best way to reach out and recruit diverse candidates for your technology company? Chuka Ikokwu: We focus on both the media and technology industry, and we don't just focus on engineering. We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Encino-based uSamp , the provider of technology and services for the online panel and surveying market, said that it has teamed with GutCheck , a provider of online qualitative research. uSamp said it will provide automated deliver of screened and qualified participants to GutCheck's online qualitative market research studies.

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APRIL 23, 2013

Encino -based uSamp , which provides technology to enable market research and survey panels, has tapped into its stable of survey respondents to figure out how many companies now allow employees to work remotely. uSamp said its panel included 1,000 business professionals across the United States.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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MARCH 15, 2010

As part of the announcement, the firm said it has also scored two technology transfer contracts with NASA. The first covers a study of Contour Energy's batteries for use in manned space missions, and another covers development of electrode materials, to advance Li-ion battery technology. The firm--fresh off $14.2M READ MORE>>.

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JULY 9, 2019

We invest in life sciences, medical devices, but we're also a generalist investing in SaaS technologies and real estate, as well. What we are looking for is platformable, scalable technologies. What are you looking for in a company and entrepreneur? Our initial checks are between $3M and $20M. Where did you do your postdoc?

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Harry Hurst: Essentially, what we're doing is disrupting an archaic, $48 billion car rental market globally. There just has not been anyone out there who is customer service focused, and on solving that problem with technology. Harry Hurst: I graduated from high school at 12 years old studying computer science.

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JULY 22, 2019

It's an incredible mix of commercial, military, and vicil organizations to support all kind of the innovative technology that we can grow really quickly. One, is the renewed focus of the American government on space exploration and technology. We also have companies where space is not the only commercial market for them.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Jamie Montgomery: If you study cycles and study economic history, and I've had that privilege, there are short cycles and long cycles. AI itself is baseline technology, which cuts across all companies. We probably haven't done as many investments in Southern California as we'd like, but that goes through different cycles.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered. We set up to develop that technology, in partnership with institutions and researchers, psychologists, and marketing professors. It sounds like you're really about the technology, not the content?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

As time has gone on, the company then shifted into the ridesharing market, essentially operating as a car availability platform for Uber and Lyft drivers. As we studied that Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the company, a few things popped out at us. When I studied the landscape, it's clear that for our consumers, they are very price conscious.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

David Baird: I've been a musician since I was five, studying classical piano, and evolved into guitar like so many other people. I've also been in technology since I was AOL in the 90's. We actually started with the musician matching site, because it was a smaller technology challenge. What markets are you in right now?

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MAY 16, 2013

You can secure it on your head, and use it during exercise, athletics, working in your office, or studying in the library. We were doing research at a neuroscience lab, and had been introduced to a lot of really fascinating, brain machine technology, which was being used to map out the brain.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

However, it''s not clear what the best way to do that is, how the market is actually operating, how publishers are seelling inventory, and how top advertisers are buying. What we do, is we provide interesting deal intelligence around what is actually happening in the market. Why did you decide to focus on this area? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, All of this has fundamentally changed the efficiency of the market, with prices anywhere from fifty to seventy-five percent lower.

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MARCH 16, 2009

San Diego-based Cytori Therapeutics , which is developing medical technologies for regenerative medicine, said late Friday that the firm has raised $10M in a private placement. Source of the funding was not disclosed.

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JULY 10, 2017

We talked with Tim about how they're now applying this to a new market. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. PointPredictive is focused on the automotive lending market. They were the first company to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning scoring to the commercial market.

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APRIL 24, 2020

Carey Ransom: The way I think about it, is it is really the culmination of almost two decades of software and technology company building and investing. I spent a considerable amount of time studying other studio models, and really trying to understand what they were solving for, what was working, and what wasn't. What is OC4?

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JULY 24, 2017

However, that makes it an area ripe for technology innovation. There's a new Michigan State University study that came out earlier this year, which says that in only five years, a third of the U.S. Ryan Kim: We had started to develop this technology awhile ago, while we were developing the WeMo platform. All technology things.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been?

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APRIL 11, 2013

He said something that we''ve now heard over and over--he was good at music, but when it came to marketing and Internet, it was just not his skillset, and he didn''t know how to do that. Those factors have allowed us to take our market size from 3000 cities, to where we are now, to literally coverage in 30,000 cities across the U.S.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

We are targeting small businesses, startups, or anyone who doesn't want to pay the $50 to $100 a month for web conferencing technology. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I ended up building a lot of their technology, but unfortunately, they ran out of funding.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. What is Episona?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We had been looking at the landscape of the mobile videogame market, and Epic games launched Infinity Blade 2, which was the best looking game we'd ever seen, let alone the best game for a small mobile device like the iPhone. Jonathan LaCour: I studied finance in law school, and did lots of structured finance and investments.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. We're using technology to scale, and use it to be super-efficient, but we're also never going to be entirely hands-off. The second part, is our matching technology. The second thing, is tools.

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MAY 12, 2017

We saw a huge gap in this market in terms of car content, and took a young, fresh, and different look at what it is to be a car enthusiast. We've taken the latest change in technology and motor sports, and everything, which has been under-represented online, and built Donut Media. That's 100 percent true. Thanks, and good luck!

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JANUARY 22, 2014

The world today is going increasingly digital, to such a degree that even quick serve and fast casual restaurant chains are eager to connect with consumers online, via smartphone, and even in their stores--so that they can better get to know you, market to you, and encourage you to visit. That was also the driver of the name change.

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