Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

We dive into the very beginnings of IconFinder, where Martin’s personal need led him to start the site, to how he was able to fit working on IconFinder into his school projects and all the way to where the site is now and where they are heading. TechZulu caught up with Martin LeBlanc Eigtved Founder and CEO of IconFinder.

Design 65

Design Web Design Google Develop 65

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about? He graduated from U.C.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Social Network Web 100

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.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. At the time I felt that somehow somebody from this organization must have taken advantage of my dad but I had no proof so I just worked with my mom to help him cancel the service and chalked it up to a nasty lesson. Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento.

Marketing 263

Marketing Startup Education Class 263

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. For people, alphanumeric strings are not a natural thing to remember, but images are.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. What does Anti-AgingGames do?

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

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. We successfully took the firm public in 199, and ended up selling to Anderson Media, to provide Walmart.com's music service.

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Kevin O'Connor: We're an objective comparison engine for the more complex products and services. What do people find the most useful about your service? What's FindTheBest all about? It's really all the things you need that are considered purchases.

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 Social Network 220

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. Its like a match made in heaven.

Stickam 71

Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The client then presents the consumer with the opportunity to have a dashboard view of social networking sites. Or, they can experience the full site, and we'll optimize the site in the client for a specific handset. The second customer is the social networking sites. So it's a white label offering. So it's been a year.

Social Network 113

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. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people.

Stickam 60

Stickam Content Draper Web 60

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

Content 224

Content Startup Screening Education 224

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. John Nahm: We offer a basic service, which allows you to send up to 25 calls at a time for free. People use the free service for small parties, groups, or gatherings.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor. After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business.

Study 113

Study Education Startup Sites 113

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. they have purchasing intent ).*.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. You are paying too much, for too little. Big and Small.

Stickam 40

Stickam Draper Technical Review Sample 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. You are paying too much, for too little. Big and Small.

Stickam 40

Stickam Technical Review Draper Venture Capital 40

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. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. Gregg Spiradellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

So I've been in this environment either as a manager, service provider, consultant, mentor, and founder. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). startup scene so hot. And what happened in L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. Some of the companies that you would know--LowerMyBills, Stamps.com, MediaVast, Xdrive, and Netzero--so as an investor, he was very successful. He's now sitting on three different boards of nonprofits.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.”

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. And covered we did. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service. TechCrunch article.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. Let me explain. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343