socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. It's a simple web service, where a customer can log in and can simply create and deploy any level of mobile donation or messaging campaign. It was founded three years ago, and hadn't been succeeding.

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Once the call is over, a user can share their special moment with friends and family on Facebook & Twitter, or over email and SMS. With great Santa Art, the Elves have been working on this app ever since the App Store opened in 2008. Christmas of 2013 is the perfect time to finally launch Santa’s app, Hello Santa !”

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Email Web 102

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. Finally, what's next on your plate?

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. How long has Bccthis been around?

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 230

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. We've also come to expect that the services we've used forever, such as calendars, email, and other apps, should be available everywhere. We touch on all three.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Services Organization 232

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

There's a lot behind that, but it's really a matter of going out and getting the best deal content, and using the web and community to sift through all of that to put the best deal out there in front of you. We had great growth, fueled a little by the downturn in the economy in 2008. That changed dramatically at the end of 2008.

Sites 217

Sites Content Sales Demand 217

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

Carol Hall and I started our business Absentminded in 2008, making iPhone applications. We''ll go on to Android next, and potentially also move to the web, towards the convergence of where girls are. We spent the last few years building our advertising ad serving platform, and launched about two months ago.

Mobile 208

Mobile Networking Media Advertising 208

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Juno provided a free email service. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Another important web 2.0 He's awesome.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

In 2008, I was getting lots of requests from people wanting iPhone applications, but no one wanted to spend the $50,000 to $100,000 needed to build something from scratch, or spend the six months it would take. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. How did this all come about?

Mobile 239

Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. According to Ambrosia Humphrey, the company’s Director of Human Resources, “We had a jobs@ email in place, but it was hard to manage once we decided to move forward with the hiring process.” Share and Enjoy.

SaaS 209

SaaS Tool Startup Screening 209

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Back then there were “email forwards.” This got passed around on email from person to person and became so popular it appeared on the Today Show where Jonah (admittedly not an expert in global factory conditions) appeared with Katie Couric and Nike’s head of global PR and debated sweatshops.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet. In January of 2008, we launched CalActive , which we thought might be a regional business.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Talk about Telesign and what you do? How did the company start? You would not have heard of it, because it was very small.

Marina Del Rey 113

Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

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.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. When I get these inevitable emails or calls I respond the same way, “It’s a shame for me that I’m too late to your process.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

in 2007 (and) 2008 (and I realized) there is all this online video being consumed and it''s not being consumed on Current. During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. In Sarah''s words, "I started reading a lot of articles. Where are all these people watching online video? Share and Enjoy.

Networking 214

Networking Startup Santa Barbara RSS 214

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. Every single person, starting with myself and through Daniel and Kevin, the founders, down to our engineering, field, sales, are remaining in their roles, down to the phone numbers and emails. Mark, thanks for the time today.

Equity 168

Equity Startup Acquisition Funding 168

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those bots retrieve a copyof your web page so that they can include relevant terms from that page in their search index. Not all bots are benign however.Some bots go through your website looking for web forms and email addresses to send you spam. You need to be able to check your sites raw web logs.

IP 38

IP PHP Web RSS 38

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

There are smart phone applications coming out, there are in-bound virtual telephone number service capabilities today, and there is a web gadget software solution--which I'm using now--which allows me to visually see what's going on, on a particular phone call. You've got to have Cogi in the middle of your call.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. You would think that the importance of email would be obvious to everyone. Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing. Around fifteen investments have now been closed in the new fund. Conway also spoke about the big trends in tech right now.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. We focused on proving that StrongMail is the best way to get email reliably delivered to the Inbox.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. StrongMail is proven to be the fastest, easiest and most reliable solution for email delivery.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. "We with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. Most Emailed Feed.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email. Be scrappy.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , Mark Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: Why Email Isn’t Dead Next post: The Power of Small Get-Togethers Producing an event?

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Advertising Web Design Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Capital Startup Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. billion on Friday, I have received a flood of emails asking for my thoughts on the topic.

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► October (1) New Video! Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc. So much for resting!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40