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. That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network. Don't bet on any one platform.

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Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. So it only makes sense that the Facebook mobile app has been an enormous success. But, a mobile phone is still a phone.

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Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipSwap is trying to break the mold of online marketplaces, with its highly visual, mobile and online marketplace for fashion and other items. We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. Think eBay is just too tough to use?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Erik Caso: Enterprises like to use things like Amazon Web Services. I use my desktop when I need the screen real estate or processing power. We don't want to worry about synchronizing things, we just want to use our devices or whatever screen is convenient. Can you provide some more details on how that works?

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Screening Resource Services Mobile 230

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production.

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to Andrey Doronichev, head of YouTube mobile in a blog post today said, “All diehard YouTube fans starting today can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store. In the post Doronichev says YouTube on mobile has over 1 billion mobile views a day and expect the new move to even better the views.

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Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ think Apple.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Go Boulder!

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

When we first alpha tested this, we just had watchable entertainment, movies and TV, many of them popping up in second screen apps. Phoebe Scott: The really big thing we''d like to get going in 2014 is mobile. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

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Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. Cookbook Cafe is the new DIY publishing platform from L.A.-based You cal also download the free mobile apps iPhone and Android.

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UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Let’s talk mobile. So where does Ophir see GumGum as web browsing moves towards mobile? If our user’s eyes moved to mobile overnight, we’ve enabled the ability to smoothly go across platforms so our units can work well for all devises and streams. Beyond mobile. ” What’s next.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

Touch Screen. Software Platform. Messaging/Web/Apps. MotoCast™, Google Mobile Services, Google Talk™. It also boast 4.3-inch inch Super AMOLED Advanced display and with Dupont KEVLAR fiber, a scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass display and a force field of water-repellent nanoparticles. A dual-core 1.2 Form Factor.

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Entrepreneur Google Software Review Yahoo 64

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

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Web HTML SMTP Google 300

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. GetMeRated , a mobile app where teens and twentysomethings find new friends through photos and chat. Forget the second screen, play and interact with video content today.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. The company is targeting recruiters with problems screening candidates. Teacheo - an online tutoring platform with a live virtual classroom. It features synchronized Web browsing and 3D models for student/teacher collaboration.

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Incubator Develop Development Social Network 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). Why the name? How does it work?

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Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. Here’s how they did it … Mobile First —  It is now well understood that “mobile first” dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

The golden rules to live by are: Platforms are channels not businesses. If you put all of your eggs into one platform shame on you, not them. KIK became large in the first place specifically because BBM wasn’t interoperable across platforms so you know the market is broader than one closed ecosystem. It’s why we all exist.

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Google Press Marketing Content 325

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We hope to be on every single platform, over time. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. What's different now, and how has the world changed?

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Services Organization 232

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content. The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies!

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. I live in the city of Santa Monica. And of course you have Hollywood.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Your customers are all on this product so not trying to grok this platform gives you a few big handicaps: Some VCs on on Snapchat and interacting with them daily on Snapchat and you’re not. This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. So, too, Snapchat.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

This platform takes our web-based technology from the computer screen to the concert experience, as L.E.D. The TrueCar L.E.D. experience is free and open to the public on Thursday evenings from 7:00-10:00 p.m., now to September 10. “TrueCar L.E.D. is the visual embodiment of what TrueCar stands for.

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Santa Monica Truecar Technology Entertainment 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. Cloud Data Platform. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Okta solves this and more.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343