socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We caught up with founder and CEO Erik Adams to hear more about what is startup is up to, and how it''s trying to use the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo to raise money for its startup. I took some time off with my family, and in 2009 and 2010 came up with this idea for the Bluetooth. Our competitive advantage is fashion.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. " 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Now I have.

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. 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.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. I also read them “my speech” which goes something like this: . ‘If

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). They sponsor TWiVC.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites. Use that as a source of competition. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. They are limited in size.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Warby Parker has been making and selling prescription glasses online since 2010. Chevron shows it cares about employees by providing health and fitness centers on site or through health-club memberships. Related: The 4 Steps Needed to Instill an Entrepreneurial Mindset Into Your Company Culture. Warby Parker.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Warby Parker has been making and selling prescription glasses online since 2010. Chevron shows it cares about employees by providing health and fitness centers on site or through health-club memberships. Related: The 4 Steps Needed to Instill an Entrepreneurial Mindset Into Your Company Culture. Warby Parker.

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Examples Company Companies Google 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. How did this go from technology in a lab at UCLA, to a company?

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life. Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. Beer or wine?

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Make your customers your platform.

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Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. In 2010, we sold the game assets and name PlayScreen, which we had acquired, and formed a new company with some solid financial and technology guys.

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Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. Confirmed experts are given more options on the site and achieve higher visibility for themselves and their content. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? When was it launched and where? How many users so far?

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Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Dollar Shave Club came to me about two years ago, in December of 2010, when I met my co-founder, who was my friend's fianc's father. If you look on our site, the Humble Twin is the first inventory we had. We somehow got on a conversation about shaving, and he mentioned the price of brand name razors.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Recent Comments | 3 Total February 26, 2010 at 6:37pm by bill right L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Our original German site, mitfahrgelegenheit.de , was founded as a student project in 2001. Any competition back home? All over Europe, there are hundreds of carpooling platforms at a regional level but actually we believe that our biggest competition comes from bus and train companies. When was it launched?

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Training Marketing Competition Platform 82

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Asher Hunt: Back in 2010, I was spending a lot of time at Coloft, which I think of as the Bauhaus of technology in LA. We're only competitive in that and the end of they day, you're figuring out where you will lay your head down at night. What was your background before this startup? From there, I was working at a starrtup here.

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Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 100

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Yes, I did say competition. ► October (1) New Video! They would go to pages that said "Coming Soon."

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Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

In 2009/2010, I joined the team which had been building out the Titan platform, with the idea that the competitive gaming model was very attractive. The competitive/skilled gaming model is where players compete in games for points, items, and sometimes for cash. Is that something new to the market?

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Competition Acquisition Sites Los Angeles 154

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. TechCrunch article.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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CTO Hire Venture Capital Startup Social Network 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Immediately go to relevant social media sites and grab the same name, even if you never plan to use the accounts. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts.

Startup 103

Startup Patents IP Social Media 103

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? ► October (1) New Video!

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Immediately go to relevant social media sites and grab the same name, even if you never plan to use the accounts. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Patents IP 94

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

So in October 2010, I evaluated the competitive landscape and realized that there weren’t any app companies out there focused on what I thought mattered the most: the brand, the look, and the experience a client would have with an app. Lastly, I think the push on Reponsive Web Design is going to really take off this year.

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Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! People often spend too much time on the methods and lose site of the results. Dont Think Too Much.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun Fact: The idea behind DataCulture started in 2010 when Gurudatt and Karthik connected on Twitter and spent a few hours talking about how data could change the world. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. Predictive automation that powers modern logistics & commerce. AngelList: [link].

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Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Brian Williams, Viget Labs.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! With enterprise software, your product sits at the customer’s site. ► October (1) New Video!

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Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! Acquirer 9. Leaving 10. Personal Lawsuit and Litigation 11. Acquired 12.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

LAGbook was founded in 2010 by two twin brothers Chika and Chidi Nwaogu when they were just 19 years old and freshmen at University. But its not the social networking site we are after but their age, courage and energy and its amazing how beauty inspired entrepreneurship! 2010 and launched on 25 Apr. When was it launched?

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Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100