Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99 We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.” monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi?

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Content Netflix Platform Mobile 244

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Crypto lending protocol Celsius isn’t fire burning, but it did freeze all customer withdrawals this past weekend , citing concerns about its own liquidity amid “extreme market conditions.” Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. the latest pod.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . “MetaCX sits above any digital product,” McCorkle says. Midwest rising.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. imperson provides an artificial intelligence platform enabling fans to have conversations with their favorite movie and TV characters. StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

SVB and MasterCard said that they also added New York-based customer data API company Alloy, and Nevada-based mobile authentication platform provider LaunchKey, as well as un-named mobile company, as part of the four month program. Commerce.Innovated said this is its fourth class for the accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MAY 18, 2017

Factual is a location platform that enables personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences by enriching mobile location signals. This company, inMarket, is a beacon proximity platform that provides mobile location solutions to apps, brands, and retailers. HATCHBEAUTY Products, LLC. KabaFusion. StackCommerce. The Agency.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

CallFire today extended its position as a leading provider of text message and voice apps that help organizations grow, with the launch of a definitive next-generation platform capable of scaling to meet the exploding global demand for advanced cloud telephony features, services and capacity. Opt-in voice broadcast.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based Appetize , a startup which is backed by Guggenheim, the Jacksonville Jaguars and San Francisco 49ers family offices, Marc Geiger of William Morris, and Roar Entertainment, has signed up Live Nation Entertainment as a customer, the company said this week. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters will be hard to find. Customers buy solutions, not technology. Prototype your solution for customers, and discount friends and family.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Artificial Inteligence Class Burbank Software Review 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2012

StartEngine , the startup accelerator, which launched earlier this year with ten hopeful businesses, is now in the middle of its third and largest class to date. They're already having a lot of interaction with mentors, some of them have customers and traction, some of them even have investors already lined up.".

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Matt Danna: Boulevard is a platform-as-a-service that we built specifically to help power the next generation of salons and spas. Talking to owners, they really needed technology that would help schedule clients in a way to drive yields, and create customer conveinence. What is Boulevard? Matt Danna: Our market is extremely large.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

They are always overlapping, so in essence, we have a freshman and senior class, so teams can collaborate, and get the benefit of the peers before them. Those companies tend to be around for longer than one year, because of course our faculty are not working on those things full time, they're continuing to teach classes.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Colony Logic is a Los Angeles-based platform technology company that simplifies the overly complex world of profitably selling and supporting Digital products. Our platform combines Android, iOS, and web technologies to deliver a best in breed solution to our clients. Business Development Director, Colony Logic - Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized. These will be your customers, and your competitors. It’s a higher calling than one more social media platform. A key fact for both startups and existing businesses is that we have more than 2.5 Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. One of the biggest things that brands struggle with is figuring out attribution, and how you continue to spend money even though you may have lost some signal into the platform. It only happens when the margins get tight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This will facilitate the expansion of battery charging and support facilities, and ultimately create more customers and growth for the whole industry, including Tesla. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. This is our second class, and it culminates in this Demo Day we just had.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Ten years later, in the 1930s, the overhead projector debuted to display material for the whole class to see all at once, followed by the launch of the Scantron grading system in the 1970s to speed up the standardized testing process. Innovative? Yes, for their time. Powerful for learners? Not really.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? It wasn't just a keyword for BMW or Mercedes, it was finding content specific to the BMW 3 Series, or Mercedes C Class.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2012

What do you do when a new industry, which serves the same customers as you do, suddenly appears and starts to grow astronomically? It takes mo bile, email, and retail into a single engine, which increases the value of new and existing customers. What kind of customers are using your product? We're linking online and offline.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

On the customer side, we have companies like Samsung, GE, Kaiser Permanente, Accenture. Each of those dimensions really overwhelms existing platforms, whether that's a relational database or business intelligence tools. There's lots of breadth and opportunity here, and some of the things we're doing are horizontal platform plays.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters are hard to find. Customers buy solutions, not technology. Look for customer willingness and ability to pay.

Technology 114

Technology Startup Social Media Customer 114

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We''ve now branched off to connecting service providers and utilities, providing a home to cloud platform. Greg Memo: What we have, is a platform which securely connects things to the Internet. What our platform does, it is connects them to the cloud and a base service, for energy management, home automation, and media services.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. It's a curated marketplace, with best-in-class products and experiences.

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes.

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Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This will facilitate the expansion of battery charging and support facilities, and ultimately create more customers and growth for the whole industry, including Tesla. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

Startup 124

Startup IBM IBM Examples 124

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

Santa Monica-based SHIFT, a collaboration platform for marketers and agencies April 9 announced the launch of their Open Marketing Cloud in a move to help marketers work together more efficiently. It also offers access to SocialFlow’s best-in-class technology for publishing and buying. All Your Marketing Apps In One Place.

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Marketing Help Social Network Class 67

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. Once we figured out the idea, and once we launched, it also provided a huge platform, from the perspective of hiring, for hiring, and giving us access on the business development side. We had more customers, and more repeating.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company. Your finance has to be world class.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Through inspirational content, online classes, and products, Brit + Co enables their audience of over 125 million to use creativity to shape their best lives. is a game-based learning platform with more than 50 million monthly active users in 180 countries. Epic Games.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

She then told the class of young entrepreneurs three stories, each of which underscores the powerful combination of humility, confidence and conviction. They also had a segment of customers that we hadn't been successful with - (I was there) to really learn. I used to like presenting in front of my 7th grade class.

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