Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2017

Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5 Soci’s software-as-a-service provides a “central command” that enables business customers to deploy their social media marketing strategies, customize their brand messaging, and control their customer.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. ” Once again, TikTok apologized.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

It’s less well-known that the company is backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital investment — firms like Sequoia Capital. “[Manufacturing] social influence.” I’ve used my platform to raise real money for important organizations throughout LA and I’ve seen lives changed as a result.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2013

Adly, which is led by Walter Delph, develops a social advertising platform which helps harness the power of celebrity to help brands engage with consumers via social media. Adly says it has a network of more than 75,000 influencers and celebrities on its platform, and so far has run campaigns for over 200 brands.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based Mustard, which is developing a social, food shopping video app, said on Tuesday that it has raised $1M in a pre-seed funding round. The funding came from Operate Studio, Newfund, Great North Ventures and Fund LA. A spokesperson for the company said the app functions "as if TikTok and food ordering apps had a baby".

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Nearly four months ago we rebranded at Upfront Ventures. You can watch the video above for a very brief overview of why we rebranded and where we see our place in the VC ecosystem along with what has changed in our industry. Relaunching our brand is part of our larger initiative to build a VC firm of the future.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The firm, headed by Steve Ellis and which was co-founded by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), said it is looking to become the personal media management platform for celebrities and influencers. Other investors in the firm are Amazon Investments and High Peak Ventures.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2019

The funding also included Raine Ventures, London Venture Partners, and Ludlow Ventures. As part of the funding, March Capital's Gregory Milken joins Knock Knock's board of directors. Knock Knock develops "chat" games, which run on social media sites and through chat platforms, which it calls "chat-native" games.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2018

According to REX co-founder and CEO, Jack Ryan, it has developed a technology platform which helps homeowners sell their homes, without going through a traditional agent or MLS. The company only charges a 2 percent, flat free.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Thank you. (if

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Customers today quickly get beyond these, and put a competitive priority on the experience of others, reflected in reviews and social media, and their own total experience with your sales process, delivery, returns, and support on their schedule. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

There was a new controversy seemingly every week, whether it was Uber’s myriad scandals ; more personal data breaches ; Russia’s use of social media and other online platforms to try and influence U.S. The past year was a turbulent one for the tech industry.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter. Does minting those stories as NFTs affect the copyright of those stories?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based Focused Labs , which provides social media marketing services, said Thursday that it has renamed itself GraphEffect , and raised $2M in funding. GraphEffect provides a social advertising platform which helps advertisers gain Facebook fans and Likes. The firm was founded by Clark Landry and James Borow.

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Marketing Santa Monica Social Media Advertising 189

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital. We've also got a really interesting API and social tools, which we are going to be rolling out in the next few months. What is Loudvine? Vic Caretti: It's pretty simple.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. . Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low. .

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. It’s the same story.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Pretty cool.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect today unveiled the latest version of its social network for marketers with an open API for developers. GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. Venture Funding.

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Social Network Marketing Networking Social Media 65

Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night. VC/Angel Panel. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

The New York-based company was founded last year by Gina Bartasi, a fertility industry vet who previously launched Progyny, a fertility benefit solution for employers, and FertilityAuthority.com, an information platform and social network for people struggling with fertility.

Mobile 167

Mobile Pricing Social Network Los Angeles 167

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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