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. William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. Talk about your other titles?

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to Andrey Doronichev, head of YouTube mobile in a blog post today said, “All diehard YouTube fans starting today can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store. In the post Doronichev says YouTube on mobile has over 1 billion mobile views a day and expect the new move to even better the views.

Google 69

Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel. What exactly is FatCloud?

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. Think YouTube but for creating and virally sharing rich web creations and going beyond broadcast. Think Minority Report meets the web.

Startup 97

Startup Web Content Media 97

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. That's both voice and data, through a mobile application, and are also now looking to go into homes. That will expand over time.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

A number of web services has popped up in recent years that has helped cater to people with busy lives. Zipments is a web service that connects your delivery needs with couriers in your area. May 4, 2011 was the official launch date). We are a logistics platform that enables three things: 1. Zipments focuses on delivery.

Los Angeles 79

Los Angeles Angel Examples Mobile 79

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Two years ago Google bought Motorola Mobility to make its leap into the smartphone space, and just recently bought robot maker Boston Dynamics. Launched in 2011 by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, Nest is popular for its Nest Learning Thermostat , one that learns a user’s temperature preferences, which has been also been its top seller.

Google 86

Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. wonder what that might be?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Avesta Rasouli , Founder of Coloft.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Mobile accounts for 25% of their traffic.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. When: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. wonder what that might be?

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful Internet company in college and since then, has founded, built and sold numerous online and mobile businesses. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011. Mike Jones is an Internet executive, investor and advisor located in Los Angeles.

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. 11 hrs ago.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 1.0: cheap accessible digital hardware]. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. In mid-August of 2011, they created JibJab Jr. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”.

Screening 88

Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. In mid-August of 2011, they created JibJab Jr. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”.

Screening 65

Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.

Startup 109

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. Each of these companies exited for more than $500 million and several north of $1 billion.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. " But the goal here isn't accuracy, it's motivation and focus. Maybe you could get v1.0 This should not deter you.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. On your tech platforms. I’m long Mobile. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. We did not.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. I’m hoping that HTML5 + mobile will lead them down a more open path. On the open web. used radio to change the way he governed, J.F.K.

Social Media 274

Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. This is where the digital media puck is going. Enter Google.

Content 386

Content Google Media Hulu 386