SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 9, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 -- Developing New Products. Today new startups and many existing companies are looking at new, innovative products to succeed in todays tough economic times. TechBizConnection.

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TechBiz Product Develop Development 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

For newly launched start up, Readitfor.me founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. Cunnigham talks of the ups and downs, but more about the serendipity of the project becoming a business. Readitfor.me

Startup 76

Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles CTO Hire CTO Coach Develop 150

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. We need to make sure we have these numbers.

Metrics 225

Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

LA saw its first big enterprise exit in recent memory with the recent acquisition of Signal Sciences for $775 million, and less than a month later a hometown startup, Britive has raised $5.4 Those cloud technologies presented new challenges for the kind of privileged access management technologies that Poghosyan had developed.

Los Angeles 308

Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Culver City Angel 308

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Match Group , the parent company of Los Angeles-based online dating app developer Tinder , said on Monday that it has named Jim Lanzone--former President and CEO of CBS Interactive, and also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital--as CEO of Tinder. He also has been on the board of Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com since 2014.

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Southern California High Tech Guide Los Angeles 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sunday, November 22, 2009 -- LA Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. See [link] (more).

Startup 100

Startup Marketing Develop Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009 -- LA Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. See [link] (more).

Startup 100

Startup Marketing Develop Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Friday, November 20, 2009 -- LA Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. See [link] (more).

Startup 100

Startup Marketing Develop Development 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

Expansion League Teams In The Startup World. In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. .” It allows them to really accelerate their own development.

Startup 270

Startup Incubator Doc Mentor 270

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

Hollod is now joined up with Burkle and recording artist D.A. How did you end up here in Los Angeles doing investments? Chris Hollod: Growing up in Atlanta, I was completely oblivious to California and more specifically LA. I immediately started to bombard various LA professionals with LinkedIn messages.

Invest 157

Invest Startup Hollywood Echo Park 157

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Startup DNA. Media relationships.

Invest 340

Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 3, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009 -- Startup University. Getting Started Legally. People who have recently started or are considering starting a new enterprise. If you've thought about branching out on your own, come and learn or reinforce the basics of how to prepare your startup for success. See [link] (more).

Startup 100

Startup Resource Examples Develop 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thin Line--formed in partnership with LA's Wavemaker Partners--is hoping to take advantage of the growth in the clean technology market to find startups able to tapping into those now established markets, without the huge investment requirements of those first wave of clean technology companies. Lots has changed since 2009.

Invest 113

Invest Capital Venture Capital Idealab 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. TechZulu caught up with Martin LeBlanc Eigtved Founder and CEO of IconFinder. IconFinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way.

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Design Web Design Google Develop 65

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2013

In a demonstration that timing is everything, the huge, $604M acquisition of 3D printing maker MakerBot Wednesday probably has those who were involved in Southern California 3D printing startup Desktop Factory shaking their heads. Instead of a giant exit, the Idealab-backed startup shut its doors and sold its assets in 2009.

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Idealab Southern California Acquisition Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

How do you come up with a compelling, mobile videogame title? We thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind Jonathan's startup efforts and where he hopes his mobile gaming startup will go. Jonathan LaCour: Playzon is a social video game developer. What is Playzon?

Startup 217

Startup Mobile Venture Capital Resource 217

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! See [link] (more).

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! See [link] (more).

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! See [link] (more).

Startup 100

Startup Design Ideas Marketing 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Over 500 startups applied last quarter to Launchpad LA’s accelerator, but only eight were chosen. Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2009

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 -- Endangered Species Alert: Fabless Semiconductor Startups Threatened With Extinction. Are the days of the traditional semiconductor startup coming to an end? See [link] (more).

Startup 100

Startup Funding Develop Development 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers?

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Lawrence Ng: When you start an incubator, your quickly learn how passion for a new product motivates the team and encourages them to work together regardless of location.

Funding 113

Funding Southern California Incubator Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is still extremely rare. companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. Only about a dozen U.S. Loss of control. Don’t be driven by greed to the wrong alternative. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 94

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 94

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2010

Looking back at 2009 we had our ups and downs within the industry but the need to innovate, produce amazing content and the creation of great gadgets still remained. The Best of 2009: Interviews: Interview with Microsoft's First Blogger: Don Box. Hot New Mobile Devices and Window Mobile Development with Loke Uei Tan.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Social Media Twiistup Web 40

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Getting face time with VCs or people of influence is an ongoing challenge for startup founders, and it may take layers of introductions to get to the right person. She launched the iTech program within NASA to reach out to startups with innovative technology that have an Earth and space travel application.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I filled up with 20 people pretty quickly and realized this schedule was masochistic. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. Felipe grew up in Brazil. So he decided to start his company in Canada. But I have some.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we do have great technology developers. Get over it.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan.

Startup 295

Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

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. Volume has no doubt picked up at active firms. There is a lot of pent-up demand. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Opendoor has opened the door, so to speak, for startups to apply their technical expertise in search, marketplaces and audience segmentation to rethink the very antiquated and analogue world of property. All are previous investors from the startup’s last round, a $16.55 million Series A also led by QED.

Sales 282

Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Article first published as Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup on Technorati. Now, more than ever, government agencies in the US and abroad are lousy startup customers. Some startups opt to partner with larger companies which have pre-established relationships with government customers.

Startup 207

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Sales 207