socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Yossi, who is co-chairing the upcoming Israel Conference (www.theisraelconference.org) here in Los Angeles next month, recently sat down with us to talk about entrepreneurship, why Israel has been able to become such a center of high tech--and what Southern California might be able to learn from the Israeli culture.

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High Tech Southern California Writing Conference 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. I need help on this as well. :) Vince: It’s hard sometimes to not sound like a guy trying to sell nine watches up and down his arm. I help internet companies make money. People understand that.

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Startup Los Angeles Social Network Twiistup 225

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Tags: SoCal Stuff.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy. We know creators are legit businesses.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Yet many would-be entrepreneurs feel that they don’t have enough access to investors and that the opportunity to present to a group will help them short circuit the fund raising process. In my next post I will write about one of the five companies. This can be true if it’s the right event, but most of these events suck.

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Angel Startup Tech Coast Angels MyShape 254

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Now, I run a hedge fund and finance firm in Southern California.

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Competition Southern California Mentor USC 154

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the challenges is simply timing: so many things have to happen at once for these projects to get off the ground, and most governors and mayors lack the timing skills required to get them over the finish line. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. How can you practice timing?

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This is stuff I tell people verbally at least twice / month so I’m glad to finally get it into written format. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. , and Schlumberger. Make it Simple to Manage Business Or Close Deals.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. " Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help. Your technical advisor can likely help. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? So I feel the need to speak up. A few reasons.

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Los Angeles Networking Marketing Startup 150

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. We decided we'd take this solution out, and help solve that same pain for a broad group of people. How it is you were at Etsy, and ended up here in Southern California?

Web 138

Web Startup Southern California Software 138

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Maybe this meme will help.

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Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. The notion there is not only would be investing in the venture aspect of the business, but would help tilt the company to success by bringing shared services to help bring their products to life.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As I was driving home from that meeting, I decided to work from there, and ended up writing a business plan and fundraising from family and friends. We launched our application officially in February of 2019, and we've now been in Southern California for 18 months. We plan on expanding to other markets in 2021.

Startup 203

Startup Entrepreneur Southern California Netflix 203

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. We met at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Robotic Embedded Research Laboratory where Harsh is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. HV: Our current focus is helping people get up and move more, and that’s why we created Movn.

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USC Southern California Activity Study 104

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. We'll even write a half a million check. The objective is to provide more mentoring for startups, and actually getting in and helping them. Here in Southern California, we do have a ways to go. That as unhealthy.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Burstly is the first open and free platform that helps you optimize all of these options.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I love cars--I grew up in SoCal, and my father was really into cars, and didn't have sons. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. That's exactly what I did.

Truecar 204

Truecar Writing Edmunds Sites 204

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. Write things down.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. Write things down.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. This post isn’t about Formation Media so I won’t drill down. So 2 things reminded me of that story and got me thinking about writing this post: I was on a panel this week talking to a crowd of a couple of hundred aspiring entrepreneurs. He’s a master.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. Our goal, is to help businesses and support causes, via three pillars.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This one-day, 8-hour intensive course provides an overview of the SBIR and STTR funding process and helps individuals prepare to write a comprehensive grant proposal. Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -- SBIR/STTR Phase I Grant Proposal Course. See [link] (more).

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Course Writing Funding Help 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. So, I wanted to use this post to make it official - we are offering free startup CTO consulting sessions. I need a life-sciences CTO, can you help? Can you help me get funding?

CTO Hire 264

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. So, I wanted to use this post to make it official - we are offering free startup CTO consulting sessions. I need a life-sciences CTO, can you help? Can you help me get funding?

CTO Hire 259

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Per the email below, Jeff leveraged his discussion with the industry expert to enlist his help with future investors.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

There is one thing I learned a long time about about setting goals, “you manage what you measure&# so you need to begin by regularly recording your weight. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis. We’ll see.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. I should try to come back and write about this more, but the point of this post is that it's important not to only think about this aspect. What are they really looking for? is a requirement.

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Startup Custom Development Sales Writing 198

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Achieve Pitch Writing Success. Working with Traditional and Social Media to Help Your Company Stand out From the Crowd 3. This is an interactive public relations workshop focused on both traditional and social media. You will rotate in groups covering these four topics: 1. Conduct Broadcast Interviews that Hit the Mark 4.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Journal Writing 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah, thanks for the interview.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched. You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? What are you working on now?

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150