Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. Mobility really changes everything. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As one of the organizers, Jay Tucker explained, “The Silicon Beach movement is the future of the Los Angeles tech area – tech, mobility, digital content, entrepreneurship, etc. These innovative products ranged from digital comic books to sports data analysis. Tucker led the next panel on the topic of mobility in the startup revolution.

USC 98

USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Then, Bruce and I met about four years ago, at a company called Evryx Technology/SnapNow, which was a mobile marketing/mobile search firm using visual recognition. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Minimum Viable Product (MVP). For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. We want to bring the show to life through our mobile app, Facebook app, and on our website. Our most popular product is our Facebook app. Why did you switch from the mobile ecosystem to the online world?

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses. ” Collaboration was also key.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

I have worked as an entrepreneur in mobile gaming and an executive in the entertainment industry, and worked at Yahoo and also as a management consulting. It's transforming industries like entertainment, healthcare, and aerospace. Most recently, I was helping run the healthcare accelerator Techstars ran at Cedars-Sinai.

Southern California 124

Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Incubator: Amplify LA. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I've been engaged in about thirty startups, anywhere from in incubators, being an angel investor, to leading the charge. The opportunity to pursue value has become exponentially easier with tools like the Internet, because of real time communications, validation capability, enabled by mobile and social infrastructure.

Southern California 200

Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We are all coming from a background in entertainment. Once they brought me on board, I told them Bedloo needs to go mobile. We started to work on the mobile site and I had an idea of Bedloo being kind of like an Instagram for voting. How fast mobile is changing. TechZulu: Why call Bedloo, Bedloo? What were the fun times?

Startup 69

Startup Social Media Platform Media 69

LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Lasky praised Snapchat’s rollout of Stories, admired Spiegel as a constant inventor, and hinted at a future product flow that is very unique. LACIncubator is now the largest clean tech incubator in the world, we're working to make it cheap & easy to launch a biz #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/5GbAI1D3bR.

Snapchat 40

Snapchat Lootcrate Riot Games Downey 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Peter Csathy takes the lead on this one.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Next was Mobile Web America ‘s ultra impressive display of their patent-pending web application that converts most websites into a mobile friendly format. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites. Looking for twitter trends on #TZSpotlight?

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

We're looking to help the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Los Angeles, not just funding five or six companies at a time, but bringing in an entire, entrepreneurial community and more broadly industries such as entertainment and technology, and have them come into the space. That's largely a product of the qualify of flow.

Startup 254

Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. The further along the product is the better — because it shows commitment and the skills to execute.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. Following a quick ice-breaker game of “Half-baked” where anyone in the room throws out a word to then generate an entertaining pitch, the real pitches began. By 6:30 the house was packed and SWLA was underway.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Building Products While Serving Clients: Why and How. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. the entertainment industry. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44