socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012. When we saw the great success that they were doing, we started our own program in 2013. These companies were each offering a product or platform that really addressed one of those areas. This is our second class, and it culminates in this Demo Day we just had.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%. SocialBakers , a site that tracks data, reported in December 2012 that 1.4 Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Brendon McQueen: The idea behind the platform, is that over 70 percent of college graduates today have college loans. I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. We launched the site to the public in 2013. What was the idea that behind the company? billion dollars.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Founded in Del Mar, CA in 2012, PacketSled has developed cloud-based technology that continuously monitors its customers’ computer networks, and provides automated intrusion detection, response, and forensics capabilities. The company raised $3 million in a 2013 seed round.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

LOS ANGELES, December 10, 2013 – Some big news for local startup Plug.DJ and their user-curated music sharing platform. was founded in February 2012 by a team of three passionate music fans. is a real-time music discovery site which allows individuals to share music and video links within chatroom style communities.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting? Cheerful Inc.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting? Cheerful Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

One team, a travel company that has built a discovery and planning tool that will make it easy and fun for travelers to find and book trips, was a winner of not just the New Venture Seed Competition in 2013, but also recently won the first day of the Lavin Lean Model Startup Competition in San Diego State University.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Who are its founders?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share).

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

ExactTarget, another rival that was founded in 2000 in Indianapolis, IN, raised over $188 million in venture capital funding before going public in 2012—and getting acquired by Salesforce in a 2013 deal valued at $2.5

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

According to Eichner, Google Mini has been an important part of Google’s Enterprise Search offering since its introduction in 2005 and was helpful however it will be discontinued on July 31, 2012. Another service, iGoogle launched in 2005 will be switched off on 1 st November 2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Date : Thursday, October 24, 2013. As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. Robin is a former advisor to Gai Kai (acquired by Sony in 2012), an on-line technology company.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The program kicked off on October 4, 2012. We used AngelList’s platform to fill a few of the remaining spots in this batch – 3 weeks before the program started. Demo Days will take place in February 2013 in Mountain View, San Francisco, and NYC. 33 companies are in this batch.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

2013 was a huge year for startup investing to say the least, and with how things have been shaping up in Q1 of 2014, things are going to get a whole lot crazier. By 2012, Ryan had a clear idea that these bills would be passed,and founded SeedInvest to leverage the potential growth from these history making laws. Introducing SeedInvest.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I first got the idea on a cold night during the winter of 2012 in San Francisco when I walked passed a homeless woman sleeping on the street. Greathouse : From the outside looking it, it seems that HandUp is an ideal platform for corporations to give their employees a meaningful way to give back.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2012

A TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Finalist, Gyft said it was giving away $250k in free gift cards on its launch but that’s not what they are up to now. We’re on iOS , but launching Android in Q1 2013 (although you can receive cards on an Android device). We’ve raised $1.25m in funding, in a round led by Google Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

Alyse joined the March Capital Partners’ Investment Team as an Associate in 2013, and is focused on early stage opportunities in big data and artificial intelligence, IoT, distributed ledger technologies, p2p networks, marketplace innovation and healthcare IT. Allen DeBevoise – Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Machinima, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. You’ll learn how to manage multiple environments with Git and Visual Studio 2012 so your small teams aren’t pushing to production and jeopardizing your site’s stability.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. OP: When the sync first worked in early 2013 we were testing it with Toy Story 3 in Spanish and English, and the first words of Toy Story 3 in the Spanish version are “Dinero, dinero, dinero!”

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