socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Tim Cadogan , OpenX (Pasadena, advertising). Asher Delug , Airpush (Los Angeles, advertising). Jerry Jao , Retention Science (Los Angeles, analytics/advertising). Jason Lehmbeck , Datapop (Los Angeles, advertising).
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.
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socalTECH
MAY 23, 2017
Usually, it's someone with just curiosity about the app, and the advertisers will pay several dollars for that download, only to have the user just delete the app, without having ever played it or even gotten through a tutorial. To a man, they tell us it's the best advertising unit they've ever seen in their life. That's number two.
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 10, 2014
Belkin is also here, as are digital entertainment firms Konami , ICANN , Rovi , as well as Cybercoders and USC Institute for Creative Technologies. As employees and entrepreneurs put down roots close to where they work, more venture capital funds flow in, more start-ups launch, and more of them go public or are sold. In West L.A.,
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2011
We made a decision not to go for venture capital early. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. We do not want to provide that data to insurance or supplement or advertising companies who, if you think about it if your mental performance is declining, are the last people you want to see your data.
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. So the amount of money that went into this was pretty capital intensive. These companies have deep pockets and spend heavily on advertising. It seems like you have an extremely diverse team.
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 31, 2011
Evening guests and judges arrived including Scott Sangster (President of LA Tech Coast Angels ), Farhad Mohit (Founder of BizRate/Shopzilla and Gri.pe ) and David Carter (Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, advisor at UCLA/USC/Chapman). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg.
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