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JULY 24, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

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SoCalTech Orange County Southern California Westlake Village 100

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It's a new world out there for online marketers--users aren't just on their PC anymore, they're surfing the web, buying products, and using services across their tablet(s), desktops, and smartphone. So, how do marketers figure out if you're the same person to better target their ads?

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Southern California Advertising Examples Web 159

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Google has set the bar in the technology industry in Silicon Valley, and holds a similar place in Southern California.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 -- Effective Remote Sales Presentations. Learn effective on-line sales presentation skills using Go To Meeting or WebEx from our panel of experts.

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Sales Web 100

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. And we saw a record number of 278 million clicks to local web pages as more consumers looked to connect with businesses locally. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The funding is the largest funding in Santa Barbara County in recent history, and among the largest fundings across all of Southern California, with the exception of a couple of late stage biotechnology deals in the past year.

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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. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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JULY 29, 2009

In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft--with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo's Southern California search engine marketing operations.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Hebert was most recently VP of Industry Vertical Sales at Box.com, and previously served at VP of Western U.S. Sales at Salesforce.com for nine years; he also has served at IBM. Accurate Background provides an API-driven product which allows customers to automate background checks and integrate them into mobile and web applications.

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MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. I really think MyShape has a great concept.

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MyShape CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. Likely any successful web entrepreneur has more ideas than time.

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Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Marketing and Sales Executives Society. The new web is here. And it's dramatically different from the browser-based web we all know and love. Your sales team is also becoming app-centric. Thursday, September 15, 2011 -- Business Apps Reign King Thinking Beyond the Browser. See [link] (more)

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Technology Council TCOSC Web Sales 113

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future.

Startup 178

Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

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AUGUST 31, 2012

This class is designed to teach you how to drive more traffic to your web site and increase sales, by using tools suited for anyone! What is Search Engine Optimization?

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Search Engine Optimization Class Web Advertising 113

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MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization also helps you optimize ad sales if you’re doing pure advertising.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

TCOSC Marketing and Sales Executives Society. Karen Marchetti from Response FX will take you through the 12 hottest ideas to drive stronger prospect and customer engagement across your web "Content Hubs". Thursday, September 20, 2012 -- 12 Ideas for Stronger Website Engagement.

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Ideas Technology Council TCOSC Content 113

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MAY 15, 2009

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

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APRIL 19, 2012

Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) brings developers, users and organizations around the world together to share knowledge about social semantic web technologies in a semantic wiki. See [link] (more)

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MARCH 12, 2012

The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Ask them about your concept.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Everyone thinks of Northern California as the place to do anything technology related, but for unique power users and entertainment enthusiasts like me, you realized that entertainment--my first love--is in Southern California. Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

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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. He spent a number of years with another, Southern California bootstrap, Goldmine. We spoke with Gary Bishop, the firm's CEO, to learn more about the company.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

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JUNE 18, 2012

We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. People will see things for sale based on their location, anywhere in their neighborhood, and around the country. We do the same thing on the web, making selling really easy. What is HipSwap?

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AUGUST 3, 2012

We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. In addition, all of that content, those two thousand games, all feed back to our studios in Southern California, where we continue to slice and dice and enhance that content for further distribution.

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Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

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JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation with some of the most successful founders and operators of web based subscription business talking about the keys to success to building and growing online businesses that are driven by subscription sales.

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MyLife Startup Web Sales 100

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JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 I was born in Palos Verdes.

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Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

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APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. Albert Ko: At DealPerk, we cater toward Orange County, here in Southern California. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. What is the site all about?

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

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JUNE 30, 2009

We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 Jason Kiesel: I got my start doing consulting work for the past twelve years in the web space. Our competition doesn't have that data.

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Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

You'll learn proven methods for getting web traffic and how to turn that traffic into sales. That's why you'll also learn how to make sure your site's hits also grow your sales. In this Forum, you'll get dependable techniques for measurably growing your site's audience. See [link] 0%0A.

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Mixergy Sales Web Sites 100

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Billy Fried: As an active person, with an active family and active friends, I've gone on vacation and searched around for things to do, or looked for things to do on a weekend here in SoCal. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web.

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Activity Startup Sites Web 164

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. Hautelook was able to help define--and conquer--the online flash sales category, in record time. Your last success was Hautelook, wasn't it?

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Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

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MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

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MARCH 27, 2009

So, as I mentioned, Sorenson Media has the best-in-class, video compression and encoding software, Squeeze, and we also have Squish, which is a web-based application, and Sorenson Spark, which is one of the most efficient video codecs, used to distribute millions and millions of streams out there.

Media 100

Media San Diego Southern California Class 100

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. We’re pleased with its growth but, as with any Web-based business, we’re looking for additional organizations we can help. What keeps you up at night?

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Los Angeles Networking Marketing Startup 150

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JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Content Startup Social Media IP 175