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 is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. It's very broad, and casual.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Eleven-year-old TiMi currently has a team working out of Los Angeles on global business and plans to grow it into a full development studio that “helps us understand Western players and gives us a stronger global perspective,” said the studio’s international business director Vincent Gao.

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Tips Activision Mobile Tool 149

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Mobile and new generation consoles are being adopted at an astounding rate, and all the while gaming has become an increasing social outlet. Indiegogo, “the world’s funding platform”, was also in attendance. Robin Kaminsky , founder of 1st Street Partners and former EVP of Activision Blizzard.

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Lootcrate S3 Education Activision 80

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2012

All three of us have been working together for quite awhile, since Activision, fifteen or sixteen years ago. While developers like Zynga are using that to manipulate the games to maximize monetization, we think we can also do it to enhance the timeliness of the games. Greg Borrud: We've always developed with cross platform in mind.

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Entertainment Startup Platform Content 154

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: 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. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. There's been a dramatic shift in recent years from the traditional videogame model, to social, mobile, and casual games. What is Gamzee all about?

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Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: 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. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. 12,000 apps currently on the platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Because of that, the second thing, in addition to more capital, we thought we should have a building where there is lots of entrepreneurial activity, and where they could be lots of entrepreneurs in different stages of development. It's very hard to build something like a biotech in four months, because of the research and development.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Now let’s think about retention. Get over it.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

From investments and business, Robin Kaminsky , Entrepreneur in Residence at Rustin Canyon Partners, and former EVP of Publishing at Activision. The inspiration to create Call of Duty vs Clash of Cans is very different on mobile. $$ and Advertisements. Gaming (especially mobile) is an inherently social experience. Social Gaming.

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