Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

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. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. Everything from Skyfall in a packed auditorium on opening night to It’s a Wonderful Life on Netflix to Ponyo in an art house on a small screen. Any funding yet? Built last business (sold cell phones and communications products) to $1.5M+ in revenues. 3rd Startup.

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Help Netflix Research Screening 91

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. So you're making multiple applications? What happened there?

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Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Kian Saneii: We formally launched in 2009, but I started looking at the market in 2008, to see what applications were out there. It's been fascinating to figure out how this third screen, which we call the smartphone, is going to fit into our society and world. Can you talk a bit about your recent funding round?

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Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

As larger, more established rich media providers have struggled to retool for the new mobile media universe, the Jetpack platform was built entirely in Java and HTML5, giving publishers and advertisers the ability to design unique units once and serve them seamlessly across all screens.

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Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. When using the Handjob app , users must shake the app up and down or side to side and out pops a pre-screened job applicant. All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. You could just outspend. I Be specific.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. When I was looking through their company’s history I saw the following statement made in September 2009: “Takes on WebEx, launches web conferencing and announces its US expansion with 900 US resellers&#.

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Screening Screencast Web Yammer 266

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009. EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. I heard an entrepreneur last Friday tell me that after he appeared on AngelList he had a funding frenzy with one investor whom he had never met offering to fund him after just 15 minutes on the phone.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

The starting screen every time is the camera. Look at the top of your screen in the middle and you’ll see the Snapchat ghost. You can click on the ghost to “navigate up” or when you get better at Snapchat you’ll simply “swipe down” but both actions take you to your home screen. Open Snapchat.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150