Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

That is, businesses are using APIs like crazy to stay competitive and communicate with both partners and customers more effectively. They’ve built products that have completely transformed industries, like the AT&T M2X Internet of Things platform. “If

Software 77

Software Netflix Competition Design 77

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. Why Invest? Why Invest?

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 19, 2015

Computers and the Internet have now brought in a new era that relies on data to make profitable business decisions in the competitive environment. Below is a full explanation of how small businesses can leverage technology to earn a competitive advantage in the marketplace. BPM Software. CRM Platforms. Cloud Services.

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Competition Technology Social Media Tips 40

TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. Introduced prior to Round 16, the continuous benchmarking platform really came into a fully-realized state in the past several months. More on that later.

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Framework TechEmpower Platform Metrics 377

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

It is a platform for talent discovery, and a platform for fellowships to manage their programs. It's also a platform for writers. Writers can submit their scripts into these programs, and the dashboards make it convenient to track, and it also allows them to track placement and their scores in these competitions.

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Technical Review Hollywood Platform Competition 100

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Therein lies the advantages of free markets and competition and if we really believed it were that easy to buy off your largest competitor and be a monopolist we’d all be surfing on AOL TimeWarner portals. So while many restaurants knew they eventually needed to invest in better order management software, many had been putting it off.

SaaS 242

SaaS Custom Customer Technical Review 242

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Radicle Growth said Leaf Agriculture is developing an API product that facilitates fast, easy and secure data transfer between agtech platform partners through a single point of access. According to Radicle Growth, it made the investment as part of a competition it just ran called the Radicle Global Pre-Seed (GPS) Challenge.

San Diego 133

San Diego Competition Platform Invest 133

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. The big win is, first of all, since it looks like a single computer to the developer, they just have to program their software as a single computer. David Smith: That's a very good question.

Platform 168

Platform Startup Examples Web 168

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. So, for us, competition is good.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

According to Metacloud, its new Metacloud Hosted Private Cloud service will provide private cloud services to companies, giving them access to an OpenStack-based cloud platform and expert support. MetaCloud had previously only provided its services via an on-premise offering, helping companies to manage their own OpenStack deployment.

Services 164

Services Ticketmaster Yahoo Pasadena 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”

Capital 138

Capital Marketing Ideas Venture Capital 138

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation. Sources for your data. TAM, SAM, SOM?

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Company Companies Metrics Resource 156

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. How we do hat, is we've built an analytics platform, Daasity, for data-as-a-service. At the same time, our first platform, Shopify, completely exploded.

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Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

“ Talespin ‘s immersive platform has transformed employee learning and proven to be an impactful addition to our training programs. Farmers is an investor in Talespin, as is the corporate training and talent management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand, and the hardware manufacturer HTC.

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Training Los Angeles Tool Cornerstone OnDemand 220

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

According to Titan, it is focused on developing a "complete" gaming platform for skill-based matchmaking, tournaments and points or cash competitions. Los Angeles-based Titan Gaming is announcing this morning that it has scored $1M in an angel funding round, from notable local angel investors.

MyLife 229

MyLife Clearstone Southern California Competition 229

Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Malware is software created to damage or weaken computer systems. Install antivirus and antimalware software on business and personal devices. Require password changes every quarter, or require different passwords for different platforms to limit what a phisher could access. Install proper antivirus software.

Startup 96

Startup Email Networking Southern California 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Exciting new technologies these days range from the niche social media software platforms I see almost every month, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and driverless autos. If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Neither is positive.

Custom 110

Custom Customer Social Media Technology 110

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

For us, relatively large and very large multi location brands use our platform to ensure they get discovered online. What our software does, is optimizes every signal the discovery algorithms look at when they decide to show results for those terms. Interestingly, we've seen an explosion in usage of our platform.

Google 113

Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

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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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously. So I often work with teams to get them to codify the key things they do well that the competition does not. The first post covered the topic of “P” or pain. Startup Advice'

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Sales Startup Competition Custom 336

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. The whole Journey app building experience takes place inside your web browser, so there’s no software to install. Any competition? How does it work? How unique are you from it?

Mobile 65

Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

SEM 150

SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation.

Metrics 239

Metrics Startup Marketing Demand 239

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.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Modern Internet communication and video meeting software have given new scope and immediacy to communal work efforts and customer feedback. These and other collaborative communication platforms, such as Slack, have absorbed many former manager responsibilities, including scheduling, summarizing, and follow-up.

Outsource 133

Outsource Training Organization Social Media 133

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

But TiMi contended that these platforms are not essential to a game’s success. The pedigreed studio has in recent times faced more internal competition from its siblings inside Tencent, particularly the Lightspeed Quantum studio, which is behind the successful mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG).

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Tips Activision Mobile Tool 149

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2012

Gamification fuels that drive and brings the competition to technology. There’s plenty of sites that will explain the theory behind gamification, but few that provide that platform like BunchBall. The platform is currently serving up to 70 million unique users and 2.3 billion actions each month.

Platform 93

Platform Mobile Startup Software 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”

Ideas 124

Ideas Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 124

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week in Startup Spotlight, we found an affordable cyber security service for small businesses, biometric startup with facial recognition tech for businesses, car care for smart cities, a platform that will reduce the grunt work at marketing agencies, and more. Cybriant (Alpharetta, GA). Any business, small or large is vulnerable today.

Artificial Inteligence 92

Artificial Inteligence Startup Platform Training 92

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. The firm’s latest launch places management of the platform into the hands of publishers.

Metrics 79

Metrics Platform Content Web 79

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We try to cap our A-funds at around $300 million so we retain the discipline to invest early and small while building our Growth Platform separately to do late stage deals (we now have > $300 million in Growth AUM). In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ?

Venture Capital 471

Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Our investment in PlayVS and the subsequent launch of their Season Zero high school e-sports platform was very exciting. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

Dollar Shave Club 113

Dollar Shave Club Userplane Tsavo Malibu 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? 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.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM.

Startup 124

Startup Press Commerce Southern California 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Exciting new technologies these days range from the niche social media software platforms I see almost every month, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and driverless autos. If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Neither is positive.

Technology 127

Technology Marketing Social Media Custom 127

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210