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MARCH 17, 2017

Los Angeles-based digital marketing agency Wpromote has opened up applications for several student scholarships, with the top prize being a MacBook Pro and $500. Students are asked to write a 500-word minimum blog post answering the question "If you were going to run a digital marketing campaign for your school, what would it look like?".

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Santa Monica-based PadX , a new startup in the real estate market, said today that it has launched a new home buying and selling marketplace in Los Angeles. The new service includes home search tools, ability to book and schedule tours, ways to connect users to a local agent, and online tools to write offers on homes. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2019

Pharmapace provided biometrics services for all phases of clinical trials, regulatory submissions, and post marketing support, including clinical and statistical programming, data management, biostatistics, clinical data integration, and medical writing. The company was founded in 2013 in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Western Digital said its new WD Blue and WD Green solid state drives are aimed at the PC and workstation market. The WD Blue offers capacities of 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB, and are performance driven, with 545MB/s and 525MB/s sequential read and write speeds. The drives start at $79.00.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Fountain Valley-based flash memory maker Kingston Digital is targeting the new 4K and HD video capture market, with a brand new, ultra high speed microSD flash memory card. The new memory cards are significantly faster than the SD Association''s minimum performance requirements for Speed Class 3 cards, which is 30MB/s read/write.

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JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. What is ConsumerTrack all about?

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JANUARY 23, 2013

The software allows teams within companies to schedule and create online, customized social marketing campaigns, complete with fancy graphical templates, one click deployment to social networks, and much more. She said that PromoJam is looking to "democratize enterprise social marketing" with the new turnkey system. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. Their writing style, even for a mainstream publication, is they write with lots of testosterone. They write about the transmission, the brakes, and the suspension, and that creeps into all of their evaluations of cars.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Amazon has razor thin profits compared to their revenue but Bezos doesn't care he just wants growth and world domination and has a market cap of $763B. The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos. What's Scripped? That is the way to attract writers.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are bridging the gap between casual, self service dating apps, and traditional matchmaking, and doing it for business professionals in the dating market. Right now, there are no real efficient products in the dating market. It was really incredible to me, that there was such a white space in the market.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. We were the first to the market with the school, and had lots of credibility. We were writing lots of books, and we'd also started the video publishing business.

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MAY 14, 2013

Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru. I love the web and love Internet marketing. For example, if more people search for socaltech each month, and more users are liking your site, that''s an easy way for Google to see that a site has value. That might be good if you''re writing a book report, but people love quick facts.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

The act of writing job descriptions will help them verbalize and understand what they need to see in a candidate. For instance, All Web Leads , a customer acquisition marketing business, needed to hire 100 employees each month. “If some work is just done before the hiring begins, it will go quicker.”. Click To Tweet.

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MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. We're taking a bit of our playbook from First Round Capital, where, if you look at their website, they provide market help and raising their next round of capital.

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MARCH 28, 2019

I think, sometimes at an early stage, many entrepreneurs focus too much on a very small market or a niche market. I think what we are seeing though, is that women are approaching the market with big and game-changing ideas. What really struck me about everyone on the stage, was how big their vision was.

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JULY 22, 2016

So, I switched to a degree in business and marketing. After college, I didn't go into engineer, I went into the marketing and entertainment side. I actually spent a decade working in advertising and marketing. How did you go from marketing and advertising to a hardware startup? READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? We have our own suite of applications for Android, iOS, Mac, and Pac, and so forth, but our primary go to market is working with the existing channels, carriers, device OEMs, as well as social media and chat applications.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. That gave us the ability to build the app and market it, and have it out there. Joey Lane: What we tell them, is this is a really unique time in the market. How did you come up with the idea for the company?

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names. For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article. Chris Lyman: For the blog owner, we allow them to see the scores in real time on the folks they are writing about.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues? One way is developing testing tools and infrastructure around that market, to help those manufacturers in their research and development, which is just what Calabasas-based GridTest Systems (www.gridtest.com) is doing.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

economic growth as well as our countrys ability to effectively compete in the global market. I truly believe these proposals will negatively impact the venture capital industrys ability to fund and nurture the innovative start-up companies that have been and continue to be critical to U.S.

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JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. That's on the cause marketing side of things. You need a third profile.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

It also allows us to do more late stage seed funding, and early A round, and enables us to set deal terms, board seats, and get a lot more sureness around the amount of money and the check we are able to write. if it's a yes, we move forward with all that normal VC stuff, the size of market, products and services, and so on.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

However, because of our marketing and how efficient we are, we're able to make it work. We were able to boot strap the company on only $800, and scaled it to millions in revenues without investment, because of the efficiency of our marketing. We started to dump money into sales and marketing and development so we could scale up.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Jeff Zwelling is the co-founder of Convertro (www.convertro.com), a Los Angeles company focused on helping companies track how their marketing efforts are leading to sales conversions. Jeff Zwelling: Convertro allows marketers to know all of the marketing that led to a conversion. Jeff Zwelling is one of those.

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MARCH 2, 2020

The other nice thing about that, is as things are happening on the same computer, there is no server code to write. It's really simple to write an application, compared to the complexity of an application that is multi-user. Usually, investors like to invest in people who are taking an existing platform and extending it into a market.

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JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Michael Dubin: My background is digital marketing, and a little bit of editorial. My first job was as a page at NBC, and after that I went and did a year and a half of writing and production at MSNBC with Keith Olbermann and Chuck Scarborough. You're going up against some giant companies, and marketing budgets.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. I want to see more companies doing innovative things with media down in Southern California, which should just own that market.

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JUNE 6, 2011

To try to change that, two entrepreneurs, Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, are launching a new effort called Upstart LA (www.upstart.la), which aims to bring that venture accelerator model into this market. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc.,

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JANUARY 8, 2020

We've obviously pivoted into what I think is today's most exciting media market, which is the podcast world, which is growing at a nice 40 percent annual pace. It's a fairly unique business model for this market, and right now we have two distinct divisions. That was our plan. That's what we want to be here. The last question for you.

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MAY 20, 2016

It's a trillion dollar, niche market. Maria is our Chief Marketing Officer, and doing an awesome job. I'm actually writing a book on raising money this way. Nowadays, VCs are just going to later stage and are writing bigger checks. We charge the person 2.9 Can you talk about the background of your team?

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APRIL 30, 2009

According to CEO Chris Lyman and VP of Product and Marketing Corey Brundage, the idea for the fight club came when Lyman ran into Reilly in a restaurant, and learned about his fighting class. What do employees get out of beating each other up? The firm is giving the winner two free weeks of vacation.

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