socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. Matt Kumin: When I was at Edmunds.com, we were looking at aggregation services.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

For a number of high profile brands, it's by using the software and services of Los Angeles-based PromoJam (www.promojam.com), which just announced a round of funding to accelerate it efforts last week from Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform.

Social Media 217

Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Thursday, September 25, 2008 -- "Trends in Digital Distribution: Production, Distribution and Advertising" CommNexus. This event explores how production, distribution and advertising have evolved from past business models to support digital content distribution on new media platforms.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. It’s awesome. Foursquare. -A

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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. What kinds of customers are using your service? How does your service work? The question is, if in 2008 and you've got 500,000 in donations, where will you end up in 2018--$15 billion or more?

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? Proactive customer service. United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 79

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. I have a number of investments tackling the SMB space, including InDinero and Postling, all creating platforms to help small and medium sized businesses in some distinct way. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented.

Startup 216

Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. Wes Brodsky: We have been bootstrapped so for, and our service has been live for about 16 months. The company was formed in 2008. Describe SaveFans and what it does?

Ticketmaster 253

Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In 2004, we started providing the same kind of services to the government, mostly in defense and intelligence. We ended up positioning ourselves around 2008 to start developing and marketing the product. We were originally focused on Fortune 100 companies, from our inception in 2000 through the dot com bust. That''s a key factor.

Startup 183

Startup Software Southern California Santa Monica 183

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. How have you been growing the site and getting the word about your services? Vic Caretti: When I started this in 2008, I didn't even look at the business model. What is Loudvine?

Social Media 241

Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. This crowdfunding platform has a goal to empower women-led startups to grow better businesses. iFundWomen (New York, NY).

Startup 140

Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. When iTunes started selling games in 2008, it coincided with one of the biggest market corrections, one of the biggest global economic corrections in our history and in my lifetime. That was tough for a lot of our competitors.

Mobile 168

Mobile Java Google Startup 168

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

The 9+ incubator has already closed $2 million in funding and has already attracted gaming entrepreneurs eager to create a new breed of mobile services including gaming entrepreneur Jason Citron who developed the early iPhone hit Aurora Feint and the hugely popular OpenFeint platform. However, Relan says he is sure what he is up to.

Startup 79

Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. The Appallicious platform is an invaluable tool helping San Franciscans find and navigate through city parks, playgrounds and museums. Platforms like Appallicious can help governments keep up. Government, in contrast, does not move quickly.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Software Review CIO Web Design 105

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). a highly respected global video company that services virtually all media companies and 70 of the Fortune 100.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I am really bullish on data-as-a-service. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. When did the split with AT&T happen?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. The second, is we provide fulfillment services, such as product shipments. It turned out to be fortuitous timing, we closed the round in literally, late, late, late 2008.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. Ron Paul’s presidential bid, the Arizona League of Conservation Voters and the 2008 California No on Prop.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. When did the split with AT&T happen?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We did a successful trial in 2008. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

It’s payments API allows platforms and marketplaces to accept payments for their customers without pre-existing merchant accounts. WePay was founded in 2008 by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in 2008 but launched publicly in March 2010. When was it launched?

Startup 71

Startup Tool Capital Customer 71

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

It ran in April of 2008. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. There are lots of video sharing and editing sites and services--what's the key difference here, and what have people found is the most interesting thing here? A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. In our years in infrastructure, those computer resources have never been leveraged on the enterprise IT side.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In 2008, the Federal government passed an act which said that school have to show the course and required books for those courses. Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise? It seems like all that course information would be difficult to pull, how do you do that?

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Jobscience says on their blog that it was built on salesforce.com’s Force.com platform and gives social entreprises recruiting and talent management solutions. Atomkeep also says it will,” cease operation and service effective immediately”. The company is now working on a re-launch in the coming months.

Social Network 61

Social Network Social Media Blogging Screening 61

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Just days after launching its credit card payment service, Groupon acquired Savored a leading provider of reservations with more than 1000 top restaurants across the United States using it. According to the firm Groupon Payments offer services that are not available from traditional processors. Serves Over 1000 Top US Restaurants.

Software Review 64

Software Review Email Competition Acquisition 64

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

With this in mind, we figured it would be a great opportunity to get a direct look from someone who’s been immersed in the field, and spoke to Chance Barnett, CEO of LA-local investment platform, Crowdfunder. This all, circling around 2008, a shy year for startup investments. His realizations hit home. Fundraising Frustrations.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about?

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40