socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

San Juan Capistrano-based Cirro , the developer of business intelligence software, reported a win today with WildTangent Games. Cirro''s software is being used as part of a system to analyze how customers are engaging with WildTangent''s business. Financial impact of the win was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Miramar Incubator Software Report 138

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Startup 136

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 136

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

What's the difference between an incubator, Maker space, and other accelerators and what you do? Noramay Cadena: People often compare us to incubators, but the biggest difference is that in an incubator, you are incubating technology. It's about figuring out your market, building a product that resonates with customers.

Startup 100

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

According to the company, its Series A financing will go towards expanding its team, meeting customer demand, and scaling for growth. The firm''s products include a range of autopilot hardware (circuits and software) specifically used for UAS designs. Airware is led by Jonathan Downey. Airware is led by Jonathan Downey. READ MORE>>.

Google 174

Google Downey Incubator Technology 174

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem. Commercial product prototypes. Expanding the product line.

Resource 102

Resource Ideas Funding Research 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Tips 104

Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies - Also in November, we published. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then.

Southern California 211

Southern California Thousand Oaks Incubator SpaceX 211

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

Technical Review 101

Technical Review Metrics Resource Software Review 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem. Commercial product prototypes. Expanding the product line.

Help 165

Help Research Startup Funding 165

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Startup 128

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The new company is headed by Ian Miller, and is backed by startup incubator Elevator Labs. The company said it already has a number of customers, including Cricket Wireless's Muve Music streaming service. Miller has previously served at such companies as IBM, Platform Computing, Cray Inc., PolyServe and Hewlett-Packard.

Develop 180

Develop Development IBM IBM 180

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

Isaac told us a bit about how he thinks his company can help solve the recruiting issues with hiring software sales repsand also tells new entrepreneurs that sometimes, you just can't have it all, and the challenges of balancing a startup, family life, your health, and the rest of your life. Why software sales reps?

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Sales Startup Software Marketing 133

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With lead investors like Fika Ventures and Fathom Capital, and co-investors, including Toyota AI Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Riot.vc, Osage University Partners and Stage Venture Partners, Elementary Robotics is readying itself for commercial pilots with a few undisclosed customers as it proves out its technology.

Los Angeles 207

Los Angeles Angel Artificial Inteligence CalTech 207

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Santa Monica-based CRM software developer Nimble has been selected to join Microsoft's startup accelerator in Seattle, the company said today, in a major move which will help tie Nimble into Microsoft's ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Social Media Email Software Development 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 87

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2015

Pasadena-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Rexter is launching a new product, later today, at the Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day in Seattle.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The few deals I was a part of are deals where I loved the founders, loved their working products and was excited to be a customer as well as an investor. We invested in and advised a few incredible startups and are incubating a company we've been working on behind the scenes for a long time. You'll hear about it soon.

Invest 154

Invest Southern California Startup Incubator 154

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Southern California has seen a surge in accelerators and incubators looking to spawn new startups in the region. The challenge for those manufacturers is providing a software platform for those devices to run on for the consumers. We provide the white labeled, consumer software for the manufacturer to utilize. READ MORE>>.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Southern California CalTech 164

Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In San Diego, the Irvine Company provided the entire second floor of its Broadway Street building at no cost for the downtown EvoNexus incubator. A number of tech startups that graduated from the EvoNexus incubator have moved into other offices in the building. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

Develop 40

Develop Development San Diego Startup 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Water Pigeon co-founder Sarp Sekeroglu got the most votes in a survey conducted immediately after six startups incubating at EvoNexus gave short presentations. EvoNexus operates as a free incubator (with “no strings attached”) for tech startups at three facilities in San Diego and Orange County.

San Diego 40

San Diego Startup Orange County Artificial Inteligence 40

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Our software is also able to optimize workflows and speed, so that the robot is not just taking orders, it's also doing a better job coordinating the kitchen. I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. Speaking of customers, can you talk about who they are now?

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

Customer loyalty, one of those seemingly innocuous facets of both large and small scale businesses that can be easily overlooked, but generally understood as ultra important to how well a business thrives. How do you guarantee a simply favorable review versus a regularly returning loyal customer?

Software Review 95

Software Review Idealab Pasadena Customer 95

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” Open Source software has a long history, going back to the early hacker communities.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

Ideas 61

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Once I had that, it was clear to me that putting some software linking that with the Internet would be very powerful.

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. How did you start the company?

Help 100

Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We''re very much a global footprint company, and we have customers from all over the world who fit that type of description. Right now, we have around 380,000 customers, with about a third of those outside the United States. But, that it will be okay, because the market will be big enough to serve many customers and companies.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Funding Startup Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Develop 70

Develop Development Product Startup 70

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We need to see a company which has already verified their use cases, has customers, has some form of revenue, or something that shows us that they can differentiate themselves, plus have the right team. But, can you really get out there and get customers, and get those customers to repeat orders? Why not Los Angeles?

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Jonathan Neddenriep: So, the core of what we've built in Postie, is a machine learning stack that ingests who your current customers are, and figures out who across every household in the United States is most likely to become a customer based on that data. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. Using the incubator to figure out what we were doing made sense, and it gave us a platform to launch and have some unfair advantage in building out our business. We had more customers, and more repeating. It was really great.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Not only that, but you'll connect with a nationwide community of BizSpark Network Partners, including incubators and investors. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100