socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. How did you end up here in Southern California?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Startup equity model. Product pre-order model. In the U.S.,

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Venture Capital Angel Equity Satisfaction 108

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. We let you set up complex rules like that. Evan Rifkin: We started in Q1 of last year.

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Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This week, entrepreneurs from all around the world have converged upon East London to attend the Tech City Entrepreneurs Festival. The festival is part of an ongoing initiative by the British government to encourage development and growth in the city's tech startup community. That's where I see the future of Tech City.

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Organization Startup Google Invest 209

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start.

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Content Startup Mobile Media 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. Laurence Sotsky: I started the company about two and a half years ago, with the intent of connecting people to their passions. We got our start in sports, with a ton of mobile applications for sports fans.

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Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. It has had some notable successes for entrepreneurs (over $1M in funding), as well as non-starters. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Today’s announcement will go a long way to help us foster innovation and help entrepreneurs create wearable technologies that will define a new era in tech.”. Entrepreneurs will also be able to communicate with the Bloggerati and showcase their products to the world. Over 100 Applications. Comprehensive App Directory.

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Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. Mark Sylvester: Likeabilitee is a project my partner, KymberleeWeil and I, came up with about a year ago.

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Social Media Startup Tool HTML 203

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups.

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Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. So when I started talking with Evan Rifkin almost a year ago about the company he was planning to build, I was intrigued. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Mobile 233

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2013

We remember when Foursquare was battling it out with local Austin competitor Gowalla , and when Brian Solis would instigate pop-up champagne parties at the Driskill. In total, the TechZulu Trend Lounge featured 30+ tech entrepreneurs. Startup Institute. Mike Schwartz, Application Developers Alliance.

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Web Design Conference Media Mobile 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. If engineering got the shaft because “we need 3 more weekends from you to get this release out the door&# … then there better be a solution to make this up to them and to explain your decision. Zynga and others.

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Entrepreneur Yahoo Startup Technical Review 330

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Bruce Nash: We have a database of movie financial information, that we've built up over the last thirteen years. Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web. Pricing starts at $19.00 For those not familiar with it, what is The Numbers all about?

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Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. What's your background and how did you start the business? Tell us a little bit about what FastPay is about?

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Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ► May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. No, it’ Startup 2.0: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite&# - The Internet Needs.

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Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. About The Show: TZLaw Segments are: News You Can Use: a weekly roundup of top tech law headlines and analysis geared towards lean startups. reputation rating websites and advising technology startups.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Alex Kazerani. Chairman & CEO at Edgecast.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Ultimately to become defensible the client application would want to diversify its “stream&# so would start supporting Facebook, MySpace and perhaps even IM products. I said this many times publicly before it ever started happening with Tweetdeck and Seesmic. Kind of obvious, huh? No, I don’t think so.

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