socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Modesat , a developer of wireless backhaul communications chips and products, which has its North American operations headquartered in San Diego, has been acquired by Xilinx , the two said today. Modesat was founded in 2005 in Estonia, and develops backhaul modem solutions for microwave, E-band and NLOS (non-line of sight) markets.

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San Diego Marketing Product Develop 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Irvine-based Enevate , a developer of rechargeable lithium ion batteries, has raised $24M in a Series B funding, the company said this morning. Enervate is developing next generation Li-ion batteries aimed at smartphones, tablets, and notebook PCs. The firm said it was advised by Pantek Partners for a portion of the funding.

Technology 153

Technology Draper Mission Ventures Capital 153

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

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Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 127

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2011

Mountain View-based Google has followed the lead of San Diego-based MP3tunes , and debuted its own "music locker" service today at its Google I/O developer conference. com--has been around since 2005. MP3Tunes--one of the many companies founded by Michael Robertson, who was founder of MP3.com--has READ MORE>>.

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Google Services San Diego Conference 145

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Irvine-based WebVisible announced today that it has acquired Pasadena-based Adapt Technologies, a developer of search engine marketing tools. WebVisible is a provider of local online advertising services, which helps small and midsize businesses place search engine marketing. READ MORE>>

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Technology Redpoint Pasadena Advertising 124

Xconomy

MARCH 16, 2017

Startups that develop advanced military technologies often never come to light. But San Diego’s Daylight Solutions has managed to openly thrive in two very different markets. The company has advanced its specialized solid-state laser technology for customers in both the defense industry and commercial sector. The reward for.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The obvious slight he made that went largely unnoticed was the lack of Latino representation and it’s a big freaking market gap that is set to explode. Large groups that are cut out of traditional representation are precisely the groups that achieve breakout successes by getting around the system and giving the market what they want directly.

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Media Content Course Technical Review 269

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. Rob Freelen is Silicon Valley Bank's Los Angeles Market Manager, where he leads a team of bankers working with a thriving team of early-stage technology companies. What's the biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? He earned a B.A.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

IconFinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux).

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Design Web Design Google Develop 65

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Generation X (Generation Me) – 64.9 Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. First, a quick summary of the major U.S. Technology won’t solve this one.

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Demand Startup Course Summary 103

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And we wanted a head of global marketing. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. Preaching What You Live.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001. Well, it had to happen.

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Startup Examples Metrics Marketing 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

Startup 111

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 111

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. He was a mensch. Invest they have.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games. There is a tremendous opportunity to be early in this market, to be first in the mobile social games market.

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Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Social network app developer and ad network.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. But I digress. And he has an edge.

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Conference Technical Review Truecar Software Review 398

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment.

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Invest Angel Startup Marketing 283

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Well, it’s true that HEAD request provoke only an HTTP response header.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. More red tape.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

However, they tend to be maverick developers in a large organization, or working independently. You're no longer mixing future development and bug fixes in a single branch, you're getting that branch really, really stable. They're perfect fine upgrading to the latest version of the software, and applying fixes themselves.

Diamond Bar 169

Diamond Bar Custom Customer Organization 169

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. He was also an early member of Accenture’s first practice group dedicated to Internet strategy and development in the mid-1990’s.

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. First, a quick summary of the major U.S. Technology won’t solve this one.

Demand 83

Demand Startup Course Summary 83

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. It’s one thing to exit early in good times and early M&A markets. Obviously I agree.

Invest 284

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. I think the fact that NorCal didn’t have strong industries in financial services, manufacturing, autos, marketing or other traditional industries also made experimentation more acceptable. I remember this lesson well.

Startup 350

Startup Ideas Education Class 350

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. Instead, we were going linear, and free, so we just took the market.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com) has figured out one way--which is to connect those mobile users with ads from app developers, who have the opposite problem of trying to boost their user base. Right now, half of Facebook''s revenues comes from app developers getting users to install their products. What''s your background?

Mobile 124

Mobile Web Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

Startup 118

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 118

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150