Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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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 startups software associates the identified people and “things” with their existing online data. According to Cisco the number of connected “things” will balloon to 50 billion by 2020.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm is putting its money behind one of the winners of its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, New York-based Enterproid , Enterproid revealed Thursday.

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San Diego Competition Google Mobile 159

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency.

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. What our software does, is optimizes every signal the discovery algorithms look at when they decide to show results for those terms. We also started offering up some aspects of our software for free to help our customers thrive in COVID.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Roughly half used some software on premises or in the cloud, but none of it did the trick both for the salons or their customers. In short, it was about “yield optimization,” Danna said. Specialists and their salons wanted to be perfectly booked up, and salons weren’t actually completely offline, either.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

There''s been a perpetual complaint and worry in Southern California for years: how difficult it is to find good talent, particularly in engineering and software, for early stage startups. How is it that what has been a constant complaint by local startups ends up being an advantage? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the speed of change and volume of market feedback today, as well as the advances in machine learning, Amazon, Alibaba, and others have proven the value of software driven strategy decisions. Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

This year we’re in > 100+ cities and 100+ campuses and we’re operational with street teams, better software, better bikes and a more informed ridership. They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. It really does put things into perspective, doesn’t it?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

However, 10 years after the software was first released, the kanban-based system is getting a major overhaul. The software now offers Timeline, Table, Dashboard, and Calendar views. You'll be able to link cards to external resources such as YouTube videos, Dropbox and Google Drive files as well as Stripe and Salesforce records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

A good overall example is the synergy between Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as long-time Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2021

You have read all the stories of Google and Apple hitting on a great idea, beating the odds, and being worth millions in just a couple of years. You can now start an e-commerce site for $100, or develop software applications for smart phones for a few thousand. It means you'll be facing a lot less competition. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

PlayVS supports high school e-sport athletes and celebrates competitive e-sports, allowing any student enrolled in high school to join a team and compete online, with no limit to unique teams per high school and without having to tryout. I continue to love my Apple Watch and its new health orientated features.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Our 2019 investment in Backtracks, a developer of podcast analytics software, has shown fantastic traction and continues to provide value to podcast creators helping them to better understand their listeners and monetize their content. Think Google Ad Words for podcasting. At the same time, more capital continues to be raised in LA.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. What is iDrive?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Santa Monica-based nonprofit the X PRIZE Foundation has added another firm as a "preferred partner" for the firm's Google Lunar X PRIZE, the challenge to send a robot to the surface of the moon. AGI joins Space Exploration Technologies, the SETI Institute, Universal Space Network, and Space Florida as partners in the prize.

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Santa Monica Google Competition Networking 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. We're even seeing it become a significant competitive disadvantage for companies who have leaders who are not focused on using analytics to make their business decisions.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s basically Google for icons. In 2011 I talked to a friend, Steffen Thilsted , who asked me if we should join a startup-competition called VentureCup together. We won in our region and got to the finals were ended up winning the first prize in the software category (and got on national television).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I’m not sure who was smoking what over at Apple, but even at the consumer level, we can search Xiamoi on Google, and get unlocked, fully loaded, beast-mode, phones for $300 USD state-side, let alone inside of China’s borders. I still don’t own any of their software, hardware, or otherwise. Haters gonna hate.

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Competition Google Marketing San Diego 99

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. The process was nearly flawless. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. The process was nearly flawless. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we talked with Gina Callari , the COO of RelayCars (www.relaycars.com), a unit of a larger company called EVOX Images, which has developed virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) software which lets consumers view and experience automobiles using things like Magic Leap and even just smartphone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Almost every online business I know (eCommerce, online software, mobile games) invests heavily in “customer acquisition” This includes investments often not properly measured (SEO, PR, Social) as well as costs that people measure more precisely (advertising, SEM, FB CPA/CPI ads). Take for example, an eCommerce company.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” For instance, in 2000 Gartner created the term Supranet to describe how software would connect disparate hardware – proclaiming the advent of the Internet Of Things a decade and a half too early.

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IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

One, is we give them software--known as an ad server--which helps them manage different ad streams they have. The software helps them manage all of that, so that they can target campaigns, optimize ads, and report out in different ways. The software takes care of all of the optimization of that.

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. Excite, MSN and eventually Google. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Our software just has to be on a user's device, and we have lots of ways to get there.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Moreover, the option to trade with more parties creates more value by fostering larger volumes of and more competitive trading. For example, I recently learned that Waze (which Google just bought for a cool $1B) mapped the entirety of Costa Rica, a country in which it had no operations or expertise, in under 3 months.

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Google Artificial Inteligence Course Commerce 76

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I had been a developer, working at a software publisher as a software developer working on consule games, and wanted to get back into publishing. really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. Google has opened that even more than Apple.

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Mobile Java Google Startup 168

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. This seems very different from your background on software, how did you get into this? Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. What is Ulevate?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. (HP Style) are dead.

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA).

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Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. We were unprepared.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2019

Employers are increasingly offering remote work options as a differentiator to attract top talent in today’s competitive hiring market. And, with modern technology at their fingertips, employees have come to expect a seamless working experience whether they’re home, in the office, or on the road.

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