SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2016

Irvine-based Accurate Background , a developer of automated, workforce screening tools, said that it has hired on former Box.com executive Scott Hebert as Chief Revenue Officer. Accurate Background provides an API-driven product which allows customers to automate background checks and integrate them into mobile and web applications.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2013

Pixicle, a photo sharing device that makes it easy for users to view photos with their friends and family on the big screen instead of the frustrating smartphone screen passed around the room has raised $10K of its $38K Indiegogo goal to make photo viewing less strenuous. Brandon is a co-founder and our lead developer.

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Screening Startup Platform Software Development 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, consider CVS Health's Project Health program, which directed teams to provide free health screenings to disadvantaged and underserved patient populations. Test specifics and potential on friends, advisors, and potential customers. Measure customer value perception at every stage.

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Satisfaction Custom Customer Social Media 114

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. Cisco” is descriptive of nothing, offering no hint as to the company’s initial router design and development proficiency. As we morphed our business model at Expertcity, we began licensing our screen sharing technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Outsource services back to the customer. When you provide a solution that gets customers closer to their original intent, they’ll be quick to drop current lessor solutions. Force the innovator’s dilemma on competitors.

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Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Design 158

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contact management software, said today that it has linked its app into social media management service Hootsuite.

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Social Media Santa Monica SaaS Screening 138

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer relationship management and contact management software, has debuted a new dashboard feature, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

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Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Broadcom said it has announced a new, baseband platform providing HSDPA modem connectivity and Android application processing, specifically geared at developing affordable, 3G Android handsets. Broadcom said the new chip is sampling now to early access customers, with first commercial launches expected in Q1 of 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

In this short clip below, Nanea emphasizes this important point – if you create a product customers love, it will ultimately be a good business decision as well. There is a tangible understand that comes from engineers talking with real customers that simply can’t be gleaned from intuition or staring at computer screens.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. The staff is very helpful and provides great customer service too. Same with CreatorUp.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

El Segundo-based iRise , the developer of enterprise application prototyping tools, is taking on the iPhone app market, saying today that it has launched a new visualization product called iRise Studio MX, which allows users to create iPhone app prototypes. iRise said the new private beta of the product is free.

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El Segundo Screening Tool Design 160

socalTECH

MAY 29, 2012

San Diego-based Skinit , the developer of the wrap-around, customized "skins" and protective products for electronics devices, announced today that it has expanded into hard consumer electronics cases, covers, and screen protectors.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Through its partnership with Lemonaid Health, a telemedicine provider for consultations with nurse practitioners and physicians, customers can get diagnosed using the Scanwell app and receive a consultation and a course of treatment all from the comfort of their home. Now, Scanwell is ready to expand, says Chen.

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Screening Sample Los Angeles Funding 148

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

. “Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

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Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 135

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

According to the two, Outcast will be responsible for advertising sales and marketing of the network, and AdtekMedia will provide software and systems development, as well as focus on product and technology innovation. The two firms said the joint venture would streamline media buying for customers.

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Screening Santa Monica Advertising News 100

Inverted Software

AUGUST 9, 2021

“I hired a software development company from India. They outbide all the US based companies I contacted and offered developers at a cheap price. The above quote is a real customer that ended up at our office. The following are 5 measuring standards we follow when developing any new system. So what makes good software?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

And, how do you do that without a huge development budget and time? Los Angeles-based Gumiyo (www.gumiyo.com) has been developing mobile websites for SMBs and publishers for a number of years, and recently started to offer up self-service tools to make it easy for those customers to create cross-device mobile websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. Who is the idea customer for you? It has won us tremendous loyalty with our customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

From the experience in my earliest days of designing products for Windows and OS2 machines in the early 1990′s I developed a product philosophy, “Design for the novice, configure for the pro.” I learned the hard way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

awe.sm (I have been an investor since 2009) has always provided these data through an API to allow developers to have social analytics embedded in their products or for internal use in their organization to drive more effective campaigns. The other major pilot customer was. Here’s a screen shot of my home page on awe.sm.

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Microsoft is set to buy multi-user large display touch screens this summer the firms announced Monday. Microsoft is probably making the costly screens available for the public and embedded with their Windows 8 operating software and some hardware additions. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

Inverted Software

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At Inverted Software we pride ourselves in our unparalleled success rate, and while, according to the Standish Chaos Report 68 percent of technology projects is “improbable” meaning it failed, time and time again we keep delivering successful projects to our happy customers. Are the screens identical?

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Screening Software Resource Product 58

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Outsource services back to the customer. When you provide a solution that gets customers closer to their original intent, they’ll be quick to drop current lessor solutions. Force the innovator’s dilemma on competitors.

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Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

If you just bought a big screen television from Best Buy, it's like you're not going to be buying a new home soon. We've also developed technology to target them, once we've found them, across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Waze, whatever they are using most frequently. READ MORE>>.

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Artificial Inteligence Woodland Hills Orange County Startup 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

Even less time is spent on developing the aspects of a car that become evident long after the purchase is completed. I learned the hard way that during a startup’s early days, entrepreneurs should give slightly greater emphasis on developing buyer features, in order to reduce the friction of the sales cycle.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. I use my desktop when I need the screen real estate or processing power. I was looking for a solution to that.

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Screening Resource Services Mobile 230

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The Resumator has well over 1,000 customers, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Job Syndication And Customized Job Boards. SaaS applicant tracking and recruiting tools also allow companies to quickly plug customized job boards into their sites.

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SaaS Tool Startup Screening 209

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2009

Orange-based Marshal8e6 , which develops web and email security products, revealed this morning that it is in a collaboration with Microsoft to supply URL categorization for Microsoft products. That library is used by Marshal8e6's products to screen and filter web sites for its customers.

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Screening Web Sites Email 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In designing GUI interfaces for people coming from the green-screen world we built applications that would be great for desktop publishing, not customer service reps. Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart web developers. We built in too many clicks, too many features, too many distractions.

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Design Startup Web 2.0 Tips 325

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 12, 2013

One of my points was well received regarding the development of an in store learning center. Best Buy customers and the rest of us need education. They struggled and made some poor customer service choices that led us to worry about their future. This is how Best Buy will save its brand and earn back its customers.

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