SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 -- LEARN HOW TO INCREASE INNOVATION AND PROFITS. A workshop will be conducted designed around TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) which provides examples of effective, innovation-enhancing knowledge bases. Clean Technology Council. See [link] (more)

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Technology Council Knowledge Base Examples Design 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- Student-Driven 3D Game Engine Development: Practical Approach. He will use the example of PrimeEngine PC/XBox360 framework that was built in the USC GamePipe classes. Sponsored by the Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds and The Institute for Software Research. See [link] (more)

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Electronic Arts Develop Development Framework 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 9, 2011

Thursday, May 12, 2011 -- Marketing Automation: Driving 40-80% More Leads That Close. We will tell how that is being done, by whom, show you benchmarks, and provide real-world examples. TCOSC Marketing and Sales Executives Society. See [link] (more)

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Marketing Technology Council TCOSC Organization 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Zwelling is a one of Southern California's serial entrepreneurs with a fair number of successes under his belt; his last company, EchoSign, was acquired for a healthy sum by Adobe in 2011; he also was the founder of YLighting, a big success in providing online designer lighting. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Advertising Examples Web 159

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 12, 2011

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 -- DOES SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING WORK? You will learn: - Real life examples of social media success stories - How to define ROI for Social Media - Lessons learned and how to avoid the pitfalls - What is coming up that you must prepare for now. Techbizconnection. HEAR REAL LIFE SUCCESS STORIES AND LESSONS LEARNED.

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Social Media Media TechBiz Marketing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 13, 2011

Thursday, May 19, 2011 -- Using Business Intelligence to Drive Performance. This presentation will survey the breadth of BI/Analytics, providing specific examples of how companies have leveraged data to drive performance, excellence and competitive advantage. Jerry Savin of CTCG will share how to find gems in your data. See [link].

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AITP Social Media Competition Examples 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 16, 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 -- The Employee-Ownership Alternative: Building the Company You Want. SAIC is one great example; there are now many more. Entrepreneurs have choices about the kind of company they want to create.

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Company Companies Venture Capital Equity 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- Monetizing Innovation. There are examples the accelerating trend around intellectual property as a key financial asset that can be traded and monetized these days. How 'IP Capitalists' are beating Venture Capitalists in Innovative Companies? Nortel sold its 6000 patents for $4.5B

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Technology Council IP TCOSC Patents 100

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For example, removing the friction of mistakes and extra costs by sending a customer shoes in 3 sizes to see which fit best, with easy and free returns for everything. 2011 – Tony Hsieh interviewed by Frank Gruber while circling around Austin, Texas during South by Southwest on the Delivering Happiness bus.

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Commerce Statistics Customer Custom 207

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- Raising Money: Critical Issues for Startups. Some of the topics we'll cover: Critical Steps to Prepare for Fund Raising; How to Secure Your Next Round of Funding; Fatal Errors That Can Break the Deal; Real Life Examples of Successes and Failures; Getting the Most out of Your Investors. See [link] (more)

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TCVN Startup Examples Funding 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I don’t believe it’s hyperbole to say that Twitter and Facebook are truly transformative at a societal level, for example. My example du jour is LinkedIn. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. It’s not all sunshine and candy canes.

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Examples: After successful sales of their prior companies to Google, Ryan and Chad Steelberg are back with BAT, while Gil Elbaz is making big news with Factual. What are the technologies, companies, or things you think the community ought to pay the most attention to in 2011?

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Miramar Southern California High Tech Clearstone 140

TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

We outfitted the early-2011 vintage i7 workstation we are using as a database server in our dedicated-hardware tests with a Samsung 840 Pro solid state disk in preparation for running our new database updates test. And yes, we would like to include Microsoft SQL Server in the future. Please set Cookie::$salt."

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Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Founded in 2011 by twenty-five year old Alex Capecelatro , At The Pool serves over 3.5 For example, shouting, “Is anyone interested in hiking tomorrow?” Contacts are searchable by interests so a member, for example, will know who is interested in a pickup soccer game or a skydive trip. Social networking isn’t social.

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Mobile Social Network Examples Organization 92

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

A good example, is six months ago one of our customers called me and said, Nelson, I need two new SANs, each one with 18 drives, because we have a new project. Nelson Nahum: I would say form my experience, compared with when we started in 2011 and now, three years later, it''s been a big difference. It''s a huge difference.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Campus Explorer, Burstly, RingRevenue, Cocodot, ElephantDrive and DataPop are good examples. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. What are the technologies, companies, or things you think the community ought to pay the most attention to in 2011?

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Montgomery believes there will be 50 IPOs in 2010 as there is pent-up supply and a higher risk tolerance amongst institutional public investors harmonizing at 40 deals / year for the 3 years starting in 2011. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. Love to hear more views! .

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2015

crackdown on illegal online gambling and online poker back in 2011. In 2011, we watched as there was a whole world of online, illegal gambling being shut down. Mellissa Riahei, our General Counsel, used to be an attorney with the Illnois Lottery, and helped take that online in 2011. Why a new startup?

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Platform Develop Development Mobile 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

May 4, 2011 was the official launch date). Examples: lunch, cupcakes, prescription. Examples: home delivery of produce, coffee, baked goods. Examples: couch, package to the post office, donation items. A few months later, Zipments was born. How does Zipments differ from other services, such as TaskRabbit?

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Los Angeles Angel Examples Mobile 79

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. Sure, there are examples of founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. For example, look at the following graph. The example chart is not actually atypical. ” Quick examples: 1. It allows you many more exit opportunities.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. For example, Cornell University reported that many Groupon users see themselves as “marketing mavens”… “on the front edge of market trends and price information.” Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

For example: If you were to invest $41 million into a company (and one could assume that you owned between 33-50%) then the company is worth $82-123 million at funding. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range.

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Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

spent 2011 raising our seed round, which we used to build our team.and launched the product into beta about a year ago, at the end of 2011. At the same time, I was into trading tech stocks, for example Palm, and when they launched the Pre, watching Apple. I started it with my cofounder Eric Jaffe about 2 years ago.We

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Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. He is a great example of…building an enchanting company. Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive. I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, Comedy Central recently ordered "Jon Benjamin Has A Van," a new comedy series set to premiere in summer 2011. Funny Or Die will also present its first movie in 2011 as well. Expanding their production service offerings to advertising clients, Funny or Die is building branded entertainment campaigns.

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Design Paramount Advertising Content 49

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. first world problems and all] But I did feel like 2012 was particularly tough for me having closed out 2011 losing a close family member and dealing with cancer with both family members and close friends. “I’ve wanted to write a year end post for days.

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Writing Venture Capital Blogging Startup 313

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

At the risk of undoubtedly offending some readers, here are a few highly subjective examples of each school of musical creativity. Note: On May 16th, 2011, The New Yorker published an excellent article by Malcolm entitled, Creation Myth. Copier: Led Zeppelin <Don’t believe me? Watch Part I >, Jet, Beyoncé. Grandmaster Flash.

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Startup High Tech SaaS .Net 255

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

A few examples of reverse mergers over the past few years include Tobira Therapeutics (NASDAQ: TBRA ) ( recently acquired by Allergan ), Pulmatrix (NASDAQ: PULM ), Retrophin (NASDAQ: RTRX ), and Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ). Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange. I'll give you an example. Here's a simple example to help you visualize this. Anyway, the reason I am telling you this story, is we're seeing history repeat itself. Explain that? They weigh a lot.

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Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2012

This total rate for 2011 has been estimated at 7 trillion, or nearly 225,000 text messages sent every second, according to the Quora statistics website. An example would be sitting down to meet with a key vendor, rather than standing to deliver demands. But are these text messages an efficient and appropriate business tool?

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Layoffs Statistics Email Tool 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. This is merely one example on how to use it. Umuntu received funding in September 2011 – the amount was approx. People could add notes regarding whatever the category selection of the board determines. Do users pay?

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Advertising Media News Content 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%.

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Social Media Media Marketing Platform 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The example for the New York app, is your face becomes Lady Liberty's face, and you can then post it on Facebook or Tweet it. I sold that company in 2011, and then used the proceeds to start Go Trexx. So, the apps all have twelve to thirdteen postcards per app with different scenes of town, and lets users put themselves in the picture.

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Guide Framework Mobile Startup 232

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

So to give you a concrete example: let’s say you’re considering whether to raise $3 million vs. $5 million. The market is over-valued in 2011 relative to norms. It doesn’t feel like that in February 2011. But this is the exception, not the rule. 25% dilution). But more likely it will be $10 million.

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Help Startup Competition Framework 303