InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati. Enter Eric Ries .

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And we wanted a head of global marketing. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. Also, we should have segmented our customers sooner and narrowed our market segment (earlier)." "Today, web-collaboration means everything from web-meetings, to video conferencing, to Skype, etc.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. Ilya Pozin: Timing is everything.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com).

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San Diego IP Acquisition Web 145

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! Tags: Tech Market Analysis. More red tape.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. In 1991, Marks and a partner transformed ailing video game giant Activision into a $14B market cap video game industry leader.

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Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. Sean was the first guy to do it, and brough tit to market by publishing that information to paying users via phone systems.

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Web Content Mobile Sites 140

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. It's a known market with urgency, so we started there. A good example of that is the Apache web server, where no one pays for support--they just download it and use it.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux).

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Design Web Design Google Develop 65

socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. We''re now the longest daily web show, ever. Back in 2005, we even had Sirius Satellite Radio tell us they''d pay us a quarter million to not do online video.

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Media News Startup Technical Review 196

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. I started a company back in 2005, a very traditional kind of startup, where we had found angel money and had gone through traditional funding. For enterprises, some of who are spending millions in cloud spend, it's pretty compelling to look at this.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

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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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based.

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 For example, I was looking for web hosting, and kept on running into affiliate shills--which is a disease on the internet--where there are people who purport to talk about the best products, but are really pushing whoever is paying them the most money.

Startup 210

Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Tips 220

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Gregg Spiridellis: We've got four products in the market right now. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. What's the big vision for StoryBots?

Content 224

Content Startup Screening Education 224

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

And 450 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold since its launch in 2009, making it the fastest-growing operating system ever, and showing us that Windows is going to keep controlling the OS market share. Bing Powered search now controls 30% of the search engine market share. 3. It’s not just about Windows.

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Writing Training Email .Net 88

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We talked about CAPTCHA, and everyone has to have that on their web site.

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Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. There's a massive market, and there is no end to the opportunities here to create efficiency and transform things for the better.

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Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. The most compelling part of our site is it's possible to find travel buddies online through our web site. Berkeley in 2005, and right after that I started working on the site. It's one thing to market online, and another offline.

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Startup Sites Social Network Web 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

To try to change that, two entrepreneurs, Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, are launching a new effort called Upstart LA (www.upstart.la), which aims to bring that venture accelerator model into this market. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc.,

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They can start on mobile online, or mobile and web, and then develop other applications for Snap TV, Roku, and scale the service as they move forward. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. What we offer is really easy, and it takes 30 days, maybe only a few weeks to get up and running.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. He was raised and educated in London.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Gregg Spiradellis: We've got four products in the market right now. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Gregg Spiradellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. What's the big vision for StoryBots?

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. The target market was initially all of the sound work done in the media space. What is Aggregage?

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.” Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Derrick Oien: The primary market is the operator. It all depends on the carrier and their target market. So we sell into the carriers.

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Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. ResumeBucket hits the market with the idea and premise that simpler is better. What's the idea behind the site?

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Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.” Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Hyper contextualized advertising and granular measurements (like AdSense is to the web) will be established for TV. The potential market is enormous, if not inevitable.

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