Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

So far, I’ve covered how to decide which type of app you’re looking to create and how to use your market research to decide what features you want your app to have. I can’t count the number of times that a client has told me they want their product to appeal to every demographic, every age, and every type of user.

Marketing 84

Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization. That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Glass developers simply upload their applications and marketing collateral, the SGL team reviews it, and then places it on the directory. Entrepreneurs will also be able to communicate with the Bloggerati and showcase their products to the world. Over 100 Applications. Comprehensive App Directory.

Google 87

Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

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. Jed Simon: We have a tech enabled product which accelerates payment, not unlike a traditional factor or AR lender.

Advertising 133

Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

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. It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. And this part of the product is entirely free to use.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. That was a big transition, at first, to try to create new products and services that are enjoyed by people.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Media 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

There's a similar installer for Linux, and going beyond the workstations and into the data center, we use Ansible to push the products out to those endpoints. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. What's your background? I've worked for both large and small companies.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for many years. Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built.

Funding 99

Funding Satisfaction Sites Equity 99

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software.

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). That’s a good thing – it means there’s a market. 30% is the market opportunity.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for five years. Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

In this role, Alex was responsible for developing HostPro’s shared, dedicated and managed businesses with 430 employees in sales, marketing, engineering, and product development. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Google, for example, recently took over a seven-story building right in the heart of Tech City and they're turning that into an application developer space for partner operations to come in and actually work with Google to come up with the next generation of technologies that are going to fuel the development of the web.

Organization 209

Organization Startup Google Invest 209

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store. We had an advanced application development and innovation team.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

People also user our data for general market trending or academic research. What I found out very quickly, is there is a tremendous demand among the independent production community for this information. It turned out that there was tremendous interest in getting financial information about the movie industry.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. Once art had left my team, I had no control over the final product and it was creating too much tension. Rocksauce Studios treats our projects the same way a start-up company would treat that product.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. Gagnier has customized Gagnier Margossian LLP’s technology practice to broadly serve the needs of “startups.” Christina holds a B.A.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Well, now we have a much larger group of products and services with and without the Internet discovering the same thing. The massive shift in revenue models in recent years. Call it the Netflix effect.

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Software Review Content Sales 156

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I can’t be more of a FanBay of their products. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. What is the Rubicon Project? Build a SWAT team 3.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. As important as talking about the roadmap will be marketing the white space that they don’t plan to fill.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Not making hard choices in terms of organizational structure or product direction. Marketing wants the sales teams to use the materials they’ve produced. Biz Dev is pissed off because they can’t sign deals when they can’t get commitments from product management to agree to product integration plans.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Yahoo Startup Technical Review 330