Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

They need incentives to investigate market trends and competitive actions, as well as continuous communication of the bigger picture of the business and current objectives. The most effective teams, through sharing and common interests, develop leaders at all levels. Give credit. Marty Zwilling.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

What does the world have in store for the mobile games market, and how do mobile games developers look at the world? Tell us about Mobile Deluxe and the types of games you develop? Josh Hartwell: We do premium casual games for mobile devices. What kind of games do you develop?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

NASA and a clutch of startup and established companies are moving forward with plans to transform mobility in urban environments through the Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge. The Grand Challenge series brings together companies developing new transportation or airspace management technologies, the Agency said. AirMap, Inc.,

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JULY 20, 2020

El Segundo-based Carbonated Games , a developer of mobile games, has raised $8.5M Carbonated focuses on developing "highly competitive" games for mobile devices, which are more in line with the hard core games found on consoles and PCs, rather than the more usual casual gaming market.

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2018

A San Diego software development team with an idea for an emergency mobile app that it said would be faster than calling 911 is headed this week to US Ignite’s Application Summit in Kansas City, MO. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. The world is going mobile. I’ll explain in detail below.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Santa Monica-based PatientPop , which develops healthcare practice management software, has rolled out a new product, aimed at helping independent healthcare providers compare themselves to other local competitors.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , and partner NewCities Foundation said on Monday that they will award $15,000, plus other prizes, to a startup developing technology in the zero emissions transportation and shared mobility area. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 18, 2018

project; mobile game developer Gamelynx announced a $1.2 million raise to create a competitive e-sports game; venture capital firm Upfront Ventures continued to back Irvine-based Cloudvirga. Elon Musk revealed more details about his Boring Co.

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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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MAY 29, 2013

A local, clean energy business plan competition started by the California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has awarded $160,000 in prizes in its latest competition. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

I call this linear thinking , and it’s a sure way to be ultimately overrun by your competition. For example, BlackBerry was really the first in the smart mobile phone market, but they never thought beyond their tiny physical keyboard as they added new features. Develop a welcoming mindset for new trends and change.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

Cevolini highlighted greater awareness of the smog internal combustion mobility creates and scientific evidence that air pollution exacerbates viruses as factors that could swing more folks to electric. The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Crown , a new app which attempts to turn the dating process into an actual mobile game, has launched in Los Angeles. The new app--which currently only runs on iOS--was developed by Match Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

2020 seems like a decade away into space, however Motreal-based reelyActive, the winner os Startup World Competition , is doing just this. The Montreal-based startup beat 15 entrepreneurs from Europe, Africa, North/South America to emerge top at the competition held at Parisoma co-working space. Hyperlocal context. Internet of things.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

Ubuntu’s first foray into the mobile ecosystem is kicking up some crazy buzz with both its new mobile OS and the hardware itself. The Ubuntu Edge has two points of interest: the hardware specs and the Ubuntu mobile OS. On the software side, the Edge dual-boots through either Ubuntu mobile or the Android OS.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 30, 2012

Texting and driving has been taboo for over a decade since the ownership of mobile phones have continuously increased. On September 7th, Coloft in Santa Monica, California will be hosting the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon. On September 7th, Coloft in Santa Monica, California will be hosting the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile procurement software developer Vroozi said this morning that it has deployed its software in the UK, as part of an online marketplace for the U.K. Government, called G-Cloud. Vroozi said it is rolling out its solution via U.K. channel partner voom! READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 10, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Resonant , which is developing radio frequency filer technology for mobile front-ends, said yesterday afternoon that it has signed a second customer for its technology. The company said the customer is developing a duplexer aimed at RF front-end manufacturers and mobile device OEMs. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based Viddy , the developer of mobile apps which allow users to share snippets of video with one another, said this week that it has rolled out its public API, and is offering $10,000 in cash and a trip to Silicon Beach for the best app built using the product.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has named the finalists in its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, the firm's global venture capital competition for investment dollars. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Marty Zwilling

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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer OpenX Technologies said this morning that it has launched a new product, the OpenX SSP (Supply Side Platform). openx mobile advertising auction network server' OpenX is backed by Accel Partners, Index Ventures, SAP Ventures, and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Her search for solutions spurred her to move from her native Bulgaria to find greater resources in Vienna, where she began developing what is now a tablet computer that can display the text from any online source in a full page of Braille.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Venice-based mobile video app developer Viddy has cut one third of its staff, the firm said Monday. Viddy has been undergoing some turmoil, as the firm has seen an increasing amount of competition from others looking to be the Instagram of video; the firm also suffered from an over-hyped launch last year. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new mobility company, Cerence , is making its public-market debut Wednesday, and its first CEO, Sanjay Dhawan, says he’s been meeting with more than 50 investors in recent weeks to talk up its prospects. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. — Balaji S. ” . ”

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

One of the companies recognized in Qualcomm's QPrize annual business plan competition has scored a series A funding, four years after being named a finalist in the Qualcomm effort. Singapore-based Capillary Technologies , a developer of mobile customer relationship management (CRM) tools, said it has raised $15.5M

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced the finalists for the firm's business plan competition, with four early stage companies spread across Europe/Israel, China, India, and North America. Tags: plan business startup winners competition qprize qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Yesterday Viddy, the social video sharing site announced the launch of their public API for developers to build around the platform and come up with new ways of sharing video. What developer wouldn’t want the chance to live in beautiful sunny Southern California. Get on it devs!

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com said Tuesday that it has acquired CarCodeSMS , a developer of mobile service to allow car shoppers to engage in one-on-one text messaging with dealers. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). Why the name? Who is your target user?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Keep users engaged throughout design and development. Results show that when users are engaged throughout the development process, a number of key system requirements are identified that would otherwise be entirely missed. Most new customers are now mobile or digital first as a result of the devices and apps that shape their lives.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Both services are entering a highly competitive and increasingly fragmented entertainment landscape with many big studios building moats around their content in the form of exclusive subscription-based streaming services. Through Ficto, Fiction Riot plans to premiere more than 50 series at launch and will release new shows weekly.

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