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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content. The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2017

At our OC Angel Investor Roundtable, the panel of investors will focus on pitching to early-stage investors, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! There will be plenty of time for networking with the Investor panelists at Expert DOJO on 3rd St Promenade in Santa Monica!

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Conference Angel 100

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Shut out of the Republican party's televised debates, Republic Presidential Candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has taken his campaign online--using the technology of Santa Monica-based Yowie.

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Santa Monica Writing Blogging Platform 249

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AUGUST 28, 2009

Jason Calacanis, the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based search engine Mahalo , claims that it now has a number of writers who are making over $20,000 a year writing freelance articles for the site. Tags: mahalo calacanis jason search engine online writers freelance writing google adsense. READ MORE>>.

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Mahalo Writing Santa Monica Google 153

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 22, 2019

At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years. Register today, because this event will sell out and seating is limited!

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Angel Conference 100

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

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Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

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Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

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Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

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Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

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APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach. What are the parameters of the investments you make? READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest. Here’s how to do it. -The

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Demand Media Santa Monica Content 157

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MAY 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, just released a new feature Thursday afternoon, DocStoc Collections , which allows users to create their own groupings of documents by topic.

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Rustic Canyon Santa Monica SoCalTech Writing 100

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, is announcing this afternoon that the firm has launched a new, online store which will allow people to both buy and sell professional documents. The new online store will allow users to pay for documents with a credit card, PayPal, or Google Checkout.

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Doc Santa Monica Writing Sites 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2009

Search for Jen Raymond and you’ll get 2 of them – neither one is the Jen Raymond who works for Pfizer and lives in Santa Monica. And write a short bio about yourself. If you search for her (as of July 10, 2009 at 5:45pm) you will get no result and the text, “did you mean Amanda Choong?&#. Second is Jen Raymond.

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Tips Social Media Social Network Santa Monica 216

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

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eHow Santa Monica Demand Media 100

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JUNE 27, 2013

I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans. The new fund also comes with a move to some new space in Santa Monica? How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow?

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

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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. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated Google Analytics feels. Basically, it rocks!

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Blogging Google Screening Mahalo 287

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. In stead of just writing operating and funding advice Fred also talks about industries. When I write about topics that are relevant suddenly anybody with a startup solution in that field will approach us.

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Last month, Santa Monica-based PointHub (www.pointhub.com) announced a new, online service aimed at helping travelers better use their mileage and loyalty points. What ShopZilla needed to do, was write a search engine which could crawl and build a structure around the web. What is PointHub? That's what we've built at PointHub.

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Startup Pricing Ideas Writing 166

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JUNE 6, 2011

Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming SMCLA: Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics, live from the Mahalo Office in Santa Monica. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites. Here is some info on the event: Confused by Analytics?

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Google Mahalo Social Media Santa Monica 56

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product.

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Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

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MAY 20, 2016

Enter Santa Monica's Digitzs (www.digitzs.com), , which has an all star set of advisors and investors, including Kevin Harrington (the original "Shark" on Shark Tank), and which is developing technology to help those platforms take payments. I'm actually writing a book on raising money this way. What's next for you?

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Platform Startup Ticketmaster Writing 113

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. Also East of the 405?

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Santa Monica 304

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MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. The summit is now associated with March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com).

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Capital Entrepreneur Invest Artificial Inteligence 162

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. Matt Kumin: I've been working in digital and Internet in LA since 1995, and have been doing this for a number of years. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Following her experience teaching the class, she was inspired to write this article for Forbes where she expressed her amazement at the number of women in LA who are in tech or interested in making the leap into tech. The event is meant to provide attendees with actionable steps to take to transition into the LA tech scene.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. It’s funny but recently I was at the CornerstoneOnDemand conference in Santa Monica. But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

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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? Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

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MAY 14, 2013

However, we are here in Santa Monica, and we are a celebrity and entertainment site, and the next step for us in monetization is to get direct partnerships and deals with entertainment advertisers. That might be good if you''re writing a book report, but people love quick facts. Our revenue is solid.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

For the first half of our show, we actually set up a store front on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and put their product in a retail setting, and let consumers and investors run through the gamut, allowing them to interact in real time, and get feedback on their packaging and products, and even recommend it to their friends.

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Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. There’s Santa Monica, Westside, Hollywood, Downtown LA, the Valley, and Pasadena. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111