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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site headed by Scott Painter, reports this morning that it has now sold more than 200,000 cars through its online car buying and pricing platform. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Santa Monica-based GotCast is used to connecting wanna-be actors, models, and other talent with producers and other opportunities for fame and fortune. However, the site hasn't spent much time on our four legged friends--until now. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer contact management software headed by former Goldmine founder Jon Ferrara, said this week that it has been doubling its month over month revenue since launching its paid platform, and now has over 40,000 registered users. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. We feel that we can really help with manufacturing and bringing products to market. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. We have four different ways people can make money.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Last week, Adconion (www.adconion.com) announced that it had spun out Joost (www.joost.com), its online video service, into a separate company, which is going to be based out of Santa Monica. We started internationally, and built out our international platform first, and rolled it back into the U.S.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

Santa Monica-based Gigmor (www.gigmor.com) is an online marketplace for musicians, and recently expanded beyond connecting musicians with each other, to connecting musicians with venues, club organizers, and others. David Baird: We really began as a musician matching site, kind of a LinkedIn for musicians. What is Gigmor?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We spoke with Matt Kumin , the company's founder and CEO--who was formerly an executive at Edmunds.com--to learn about the company's products. Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. What's your background, and what is PublishThis all about?

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MAY 20, 2016

In particular, there are many platforms who enable taking ticket payments for sporting events, donation payments for non profits and rent payments for property managers, who don't fit into the current legacy way payments are handled. In the middle section are platforms like Uber, Airbnb, or Taskrabbit. What is Digitzs?

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JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance.

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MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. On top of that, god forbid, if someone gets E.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them. Traditionally, that has been products in fashion/beauty, home/garden, sports/outdoors, and parenting and green.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is located in Santa Monica. Ben Satterfield: Burstly is the blanket company for three products. Our latest product is FlightPath, which is a mobile analytics solution. No one knew what was going on then, this was before iOS 3, and he contracted me to make the site and help create the brand. What is Burstly?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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JUNE 15, 2015

Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25 The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. We put products they can purchase in the mix.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. We bought sites, built a studio system, and now we're figuring out what different formats to approach.

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JUNE 21, 2011

He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). The problem is that they don't live in those CRM tools like they do in Outlook, or on social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. There are six different things you should have instead in in one place.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. We had a concept around creating a platform, using open standards, to resolve lots of the issues surrounding social networking and the issues of identity.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Make sure to tune in!

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. How does that work?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. Companies and professionals have a product or service they provide or support.

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JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. That same team founded the popular site Buzznet, which became BuzzMedia and is now known as SpinMedia.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Recycled Bride is the world’s largest wedding marketplace; a peer-to-peer platform that connects buyers and sellers of designer wedding dresses, accessories, and anything else wedding-related. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. When was Recycled Bride founded and where is it based? Any funding yet?

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MARCH 5, 2012

On our platform, we allow them to set their own rate, and have complete control over the dogs they will accept, and their schedule. Dog owners can browse through the site, and find the best options for their pet. So, back in November and December we started putting together the site you see, which enables everyone to do this.

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MARCH 5, 2012

On our platform, we allow them to set their own rate, and have complete control over the dogs they will accept, and their schedule. Dog owners can browse through the site, and find the best options for their pet. So, back in November and December we started putting together the site you see, which enables everyone to do this.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. Then came blogs.

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JULY 8, 2011

It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Additionally, the site allows lawyers to market their legal services by sharing expert advice and engaging in discussion. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

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