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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

GraphEffect, which is led by James Borow, said it added Melissa Greenberg, Alexandra Press, and Mandy Majchrzak as Directors in the various offices; Greenberg was at DailyCandy, Press was at Neo@Ogilvy, and Majchrzak was at [x+1] and turn.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing tools for the Associated Press, McClatchy, Belo Interactive, and other publishers, said this morning that it has raised $7M more in additional funding. The round was led by BlueRun Ventures, and also included prior investors The Associated Press and others.

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DECEMBER 7, 2014

I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. I wish I did more enterprise software investing because when I attend meetings like this I realize that this is my core DNA – rolling out business software solutions to customers. The press don’t get your financials.

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JUNE 27, 2011

.&# Marketing futures can be really good for enterprise software companies where the information is passed between sales rep and potential customer in terms of near-term roadmap. But don’t let this information get out into the general press and don’t market more than a few months out. They come and go. You don’t.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless , a developer of mobile local news publishing software, has tied with the Audit Bureau of Circulations' interactive unit, ABCi, the firm said this week. According to ABCi and Verve, ABCi will provide newspaper publishers and advertisers with independently verified mobile usage data for Verve clients.

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MARCH 25, 2011

Palo Alto-based Color , the new Silicon Valley startup developing mobile photo sharing and social networking software which appears to have gained unprecedented attention from the press this week at its launch, has a Southern California connection. The firm's SoCal connection?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. And so you have great local tech press like Business Insider who covers the industry very well. Local press matters. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

A Los Angeles area school is the beneficiary of what software giant Microsoft says is its single largest technology donation, ever, to a school. Microsoft said Wednesday that it is donating more than $1 million in a grant to purchase new software and hardware, to the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Verve Wireless develops mobile software used by newspapers, magazines, and other publishers--including the Associated Press--to distribute their content to mobile and smartphone users. Verve said Nicotra will oversee the firm's product innovation and technology functions.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

As a side note, we returned to market with the application as a software-only product without artificial intelligence and without some features, reduced the price from $150,000 to $8,000, and had a subsequent hit on our hands. Best possible press: too early to market. Cover story for industry magazine.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing software used by newspapers and the Associated Press, said today that it has named a new CEO. Verve said it has named Tom MacIsaac, most recently CEO of ExtendMedia, as CEO of the company. MacIsaac also has served at Lightningcast, AOL, and Backwire.

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MARCH 4, 2021

As a side note, we returned to market with the application as a software-only product without artificial intelligence and without some features, reduced the price from $150,000 to $8,000, and had a subsequent hit on our hands. Changing the rules to fit the market. My unexpected advantages of being first.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing software used by newspapers and other local publishers to serve up mobile news and ads, has raised $7.0M Verve Wireless has previously raised capital from the Associated Press and Iron Capital, and the firm's board also includes a representative of BlueRun Ventures.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

You need star power of entrepreneurs surrounded by star power angels & VCs who in turn get tons of press from adoring journalists who are insiders amongst this crowd of tech cognoscenti. But when you produce on Internet you can test your content in the same way that Silicon Valley firms test early versions of their software.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We were the only such facility on the West coast to provide and control the entire process from studio, through finished vinyl record pressings in the same building, therefore able to promise quality control others could only dream about. Over fifty years ago, I was CEO of a record manufacturing company in Hollywood.

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press. Applications for Techstars LA 2018 open on January 8.

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MAY 20, 2020

But the broader issue that hasn’t garnished much press attention is how the restaurant industry itself is being transformed and what tools a modern restaurant will need to compete. So while many restaurants knew they eventually needed to invest in better order management software, many had been putting it off.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Costa Mesa-based Veritone says its artificial intelligence software was deployed for the 2019 College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship, and was used to produce transcriptions, automated facial recognition of players and coaches, logo identification, and other tasks for the CFP's Media Day. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2010

The LA market is going insane," says Janine Davis , a recruiter at Technical Connections in Los Angeles, saying she is seeing the most demand in all software engineering areas, ERP/CRM, quality assurance, and even for DBAs, administrators, and network engineers.

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JUNE 15, 2018

Redlands-based Esri , the developer of geographical information systems (GIS) software, has applied its tools to the World Cup, with a new "Story Map" of high resolution satellite imagery of the 12 World Cup venues. The Story Map is being shown exclusively by The Associated Press in their coverage of the games. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based Social Reality (SRAX), which developing digital marketing and consumer data management software--and more recently, has tried to launch its own cryptocurrency called BIGtoken--said it is restating its results all the way back to March of 2017.

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JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. First off, let's talk a little bit about your software. What does your software do? Aviv Grill: We just launched our 2.0 We had a 1.0 Verson 2.0

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MAY 5, 2011

A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. They can then direct staff, allocate budgets, talk to the press, connect you with politicians and attend events. Marketing Muscle.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

Santa Monica-based Pathmatics is announcing today that it has raised $3M in a funding round, for its marketing intelligence software. Mintel is a marketing intelligence agency, and SPH Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Singapore Press Holdings, the publishers of The Straits Times.

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MAY 4, 2010

Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. If Klout can become an embedded solution in every marketing software companies’ toolkits then they could be a valuable company. Read more: DST Press Release. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. LivingSocial.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. As you probably know, Goldmine used to compete with ACT, and was a precursor to software like Salesforce.com when contact management software started on laptops.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

We were the only such facility on the West coast to provide and control the entire process from studio, through finished vinyl record pressings in the same building, therefore able to promise quality control others could only dream about. Over fifty years ago, I was CEO of a record manufacturing company in Hollywood.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

We just knew that we were onto an idea that no one had thought of and we had better be in the press first because, of course, there is a first-mover advantage. Getting press is sales. We didn’t even think about how we were going to answer calls… or how we were going to respond to everybody. Flip Burgers. Number one is sales.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

ScoreStream's software is used to crowdsource scores and other information from local high schools and other local sports leagues, which it makes available to media outlets such as broadcast television groups, iHeart Media, and the Associated Press. Oien is a serial entrepreneur and previously headed up Chumby.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Netflix Senior Software Engineer Terra Field, who is transgender, tweeted a viral thread about the Chappelle special. categorically denies leaking sensitive information to the press.” Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images). Netflix told TechCrunch that the employee admitted to sharing the content externally.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press. Customers, press and the market responded positively. ‘ Here are some steps in the Inside Out organization. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived. cared about the feature set.

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MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall. Rumored to be appox. Primarily targets SMBs.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

At fifteen, I started a recording business that would pay my way through college, a business that Id take public in a limited IPO years after, before getting into the computer software business in its infancy. What drove my brother and me to perform, to risk so much, to skirt bankruptcy, to press on again and again?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Santa Monica-based business search engine and directory firm Business.com said Friday that it has launched a new, open source software application focused on data warehousing. According to Business.com, the new software--"CloudBase"--is a spinout of technology developed for the firm internally for web log analysis. READ MORE>>

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JULY 8, 2013

If there were such a thing as a "Dream Team" for mobile advertising, you would be hard pressed not to pick the founding team of Los Angeles-based Gradient X (www.gradientx.com), whose founders include Michael Lum (formerly of OpenX), Brian Baumgart (formerly at Adconion), and Julie Mattern (formerly of Rubicon Project).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless, a provider of software for helping publishers publish their content to mobile devices, has inked a partnership with local event search site Zvents, the firms announced today. According to the firms, Verve Wireless will provide its mobile publishing technology to Zvents, for a mobile site. READ MORE>>

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Talent – in a world where startup founders are rewarded handsomely for taking risks of building their own startup companies and where the press shines a brighter light on them, much of the early-stage company traction will come from startups. I described that here in this post. “ And my fear? The only thing that slows us down?

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