article thumbnail

Why We Think B2B Crowdsourced Logistics Will Be a Big Hit

Both Sides of the Table

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. It’s been a really exciting time for me personally to be able to see a partner come in with the energy, enthusiasm and new ideas that remind me of myself 6 years ago. But how to mobilize same-day deliver cost effectively?

Startup 331
article thumbnail

How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

socalTECH

Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. What's unique about what entertainment companies are looking for in mobile ads? Videos will not autoplay on a mobile device, just because you are using HTML5 code.

Hollywood 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

socalTECH

Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup.

Gogii 200
article thumbnail

Interview with Josh Resnick, ntro

socalTECH

That's the problem that the mobile app ntro is looking to solve. What's the idea behind the ntro? I actually had the idea sitting around with my partner around three to four years ago, but we were both pretty focused on our videogame careers at the time. Josh sat down to talk to us his new company and its new app.

article thumbnail

Interesting Model for University President

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups.

CTO Coach 150
article thumbnail

Page Howe: Why Everyone In LA Ought To Have a.LA Domain

socalTECH

It works on every Internet-connected computer worldwide, and every mobile phone everywhere. But, that started a whole idea of new domains. We bought and sold domains, and it's now been over two million since 2007. Page Howe: I think, if we didn't have mobile apps and social networks, domains would be ten million dollars each.

article thumbnail

Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.