Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Company still in beta. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2009

El Segundo-based AWR , a developer of high frequency, electronic design automation software, is trumpeting its financial performance today, saying it had "record annual revenues" for its fiscal year ended March 31st. The company said the 2009 fiscal year was the twelfth consecutive year of revenue growth for the firm.

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El Segundo Research Design Tool 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Thompson founded Doctor Design in 1984, an embedded engineering firm which was eventually acquired by Integrated Systems, which was merged with Wind River, itself acquired by Intel in 2009. Express Ventures has invested in eight San Diego companies, including MaintenanceNet, Certona, and Benchmark Revenue Management.

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Chief Technology Officer San Diego Software Development Design 145

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2009

Friday, June 5, 2009 -- Maverick Boot Camp for Entrepreneurs. Our full day Boot Camp for Entrepreneurs is designed to provide in-depth training to improve the way entrepreneurs present themselves and their companies, increasing their chances for funding. See [link] (more).

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Training Ideas Design 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 19, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- New Media Vault. Welcome to the East Sides first New Media Networking Event in Downtown Los Angeles. See [link] (more).

Media 100

Media Los Angeles Design Networking 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 8, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009 -- Maverick Boot Camp for Entrepreneurs. Our full day Boot Camp for Entrepreneurs is designed to provide in-depth training to improve the way entrepreneurs present themselves and their companies, increasing their chances for funding. See [link].

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Training Ideas Design 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 -- People are talking about your products. Innovative companies are using new tools and techniques to capture the voice-of-market to help drive their product roadmaps. Come learn how companies are listening to their market and how that intelligence is changing the way products are designed and delivered.

Product 100

Product Design Tool Marketing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 28, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009 -- New Media Vault May. Welcome to the East Sides first New Media Networking Event in Downtown Los Angeles. See [link] (more).

Media 100

Media Los Angeles Design Networking 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 -- CA Medical Device and Investor Forum. More than ever, companies and individuals must remain at the leading edge of innovation in the medical device industry to maintain a competitive advantage in the US and around the world. See [link] (more).

Orange County 100

Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 -- CA Medical Device and Investor Forum. More than ever, companies and individuals must remain at the leading edge of innovation in the medical device industry to maintain a competitive advantage in the US and around the world. See [link] (more).

Orange County 100

Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009 -- CA Medical Device and Investor Forum. More than ever, companies and individuals must remain at the leading edge of innovation in the medical device industry to maintain a competitive advantage in the US and around the world. See [link] (more).

Orange County 100

Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Sunday, March 1, 2009 -- Startup Weekend LA2.Startup Startup Weekend is a intense 54 hour event bringing together brilliant tech minds (developers, designers, marketers, ect.) together to create a company (or as many as the community wants) from concept to launch!

Startup 100

Startup Design Ideas Marketing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009 -- Startup Weekend LA2.Startup Startup Weekend is a intense 54 hour event bringing together brilliant tech minds (developers, designers, marketers, ect.) together to create a company (or as many as the community wants) from concept to launch!

Startup 100

Startup Design Ideas Marketing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Friday, February 27, 2009 -- Startup Weekend LA2.Startup Startup Weekend is a intense 54 hour event bringing together brilliant tech minds (developers, designers, marketers, ect.) together to create a company (or as many as the community wants) from concept to launch!

Startup 100

Startup Design Ideas Marketing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 27, 2009

Thursday, April 2, 2009 -- Going Green: How The Movement Toward Sustainable Products Is Impacting Business. An increasing number of companies in the U.S. have adopted initiatives to design and produce environmentally friendly products. The GOLD COAST BUSINESS FORUM invites you to attend this exciting event! See [link] (more).

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Design Product Company Companies 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009 -- Personal and Professional Turnaround Techniques. Meet executive coaches who offer insights on how to find your passion, and how to design, plan and execute clear direction in your professional life. Tips and tricks for career advancement in the 21st Century.

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AITP Coach Tips Guide 100

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. How did you start company? Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? How did that happen?

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IP PHP Design Startup 217

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Milk & Honey has had shoes designed by Rachael Ray, Ginnifer Goodwin, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara amongst others and has appeared in People, Redbook, Inked, Lucky, Bridal Guide, InStyle, Marie Claire, and numerous other publications. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 29, 2009

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 -- Entrepreneur Mentoring Session. Entretech is launching Nitro a new program designed to "Get more companies funded in Greater Los Angeles."

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Mentor Entrepreneur Research Resource 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009 -- TCVN Workshop LA. This workshop is specifically designed to address key issues in the formation, organization and execution of any early stage company.

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TCVN Brentwood Examples Design 100

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. Describe what Mobile Roadie does?

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 30, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009 -- TCVN Workshop Orange County. This workshop is specifically designed to address key issues in the formation, organization and execution of any early stage company.

Orange County 100

Orange County TCVN Brentwood Examples 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Think smartphone cameras, as opposed to a new smartphone design.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Examples Google 129

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. TechZulu caught up with Recycled Bride and here is what we found!

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Before getting out on the open road, however, the company wants to show its self-driving system can clean up a mess in aisle 3 at Jimbo’s. began life in 2009 with a lofty goal of reverse-engineering the human brain. San Diego’s Brain Corp. emerged in the collective glow of the Obama Administration’s brain initiative. Brain Corp.

Product 106

Product Artificial Inteligence San Diego Training 106

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. I reached out after the event to learn more.

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Conference Slides Social Media Summary 150

StartUp Beat

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

StartupBeat, founded in 2009 in Los Angeles, is a media company focused on covering startups and why they matter in our lives. Designed For SEO Professionals: $1999. – Partner with StartupBeat. Spanish-Speaking: $699. Each article is unique, authored by our team, and will approved by the client.

Advertising 40

Advertising SEO Media Los Angeles 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? There is nothing to download and Stickam is 100% free.

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I quietly watched their success from the sidelines and kept spending time with and telling the CEO, Scott Lahman, that I wanted to invest in his next company.

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here.

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Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This morning's contribution is from Krisztina 'Z' Holly host of the The Art of Manufacturing podcast and founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), which supports connecting local manufacturers and high tech companies. What was the big news for your company this year? Snap Inc became a hardware companySpecs, drones, merchandise.

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USC Startup News Entrepreneur 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. The film gives several examples of where not having women included in product decisions has led to poor design by not truly understanding 50%+ of the ultimate consumers. Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs.

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac Brandenberg: Meteor Games is a game design studio, focused on casual social games. Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. We were well suited to design and develop those games, because we already had the infrastructure in place, and the founders were experts in game design.

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Beverly Hills Advertising Design Activity 182

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

With this fast pace industry the elegant design we see if websites, is sometimes lost in translation. He and his company, Rocksauce, make sure to add high quality design back into each of the apps they create. After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. It simply makes more sense.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. on April 24, 2009.

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

To get the story behind KTSi, we spoke with Dick Newark , CEO of the company, Chandler Williamson , CMO; and Rudy Lautz , CFO. The origins of the design that we have goes back to a company from the United Kingdom in the late 90's, and actually came out of high speed, centrifuge technology which is used for uranium enrichment.

Design 138

Design Training Southern California Outsource Development 138

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150