SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP. Send across any graphic designs you currently have. Minimum Viable Product: a guide , Lessons Learned, Eric Ries, August 3, 2009 10 examples of minimum viable products Minimum Viable Product revisited – the MVP Curve?

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We caught up with founder and CEO Erik Adams to hear more about what is startup is up to, and how it''s trying to use the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo to raise money for its startup. I got a lot of pushback--none of them wanted to change their designs, and no one thought anyone would wear a flower. What is Deka Sounds?

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company. Our software lets non-technical folks make an app in about an hour. How did this all come about? Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Describe what Mobile Roadie does?

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

eHarmony said that as part of the settlement, all claims will be dismissed, and it will create a $2M settlement fund, with $500,000 of that fund to be designed for claims by the class, with any unclaimed portion of the fund to be donated to a charity designated by the court. eHarmony, Inc., which was filed in 2007.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Meet the VCs: The thrill of speed dating for startups. An interactive networking roundtable at which more than 30 venture capitalists from California, will talk with local entrepreneurs about deal flow and the types of investments they're looking to fund. See [link] (more).

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LAVA Startup Education Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? By December of 2009, with our little portfolio of simple games such as Snowball Fight, we were at 27 million monthly user son Facebook, and we were one of the top 10 developers on Facebook in terms of pure reach.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009 -- Drawing on the Experience and Innovation of Green Technology from Japan for Sustainable Building. Japan is currently the worlds most energy efficient society (in terms of energy intensity) and has established itself as a leader in sustainable building design and green technology. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 -- CA Medical Device and Investor Forum. This is the Forum to connect with industry leaders; understand the latest advancements and trends; meet those to fund or license technology; and hear about critical developments in legal issues, regulatory, design and global opportunities for medical device companies.

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Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 -- CA Medical Device and Investor Forum. This is the Forum to connect with industry leaders; understand the latest advancements and trends; meet those to fund or license technology; and hear about critical developments in legal issues, regulatory, design and global opportunities for medical device companies.

Orange County 100

Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009 -- CA Medical Device and Investor Forum. This is the Forum to connect with industry leaders; understand the latest advancements and trends; meet those to fund or license technology; and hear about critical developments in legal issues, regulatory, design and global opportunities for medical device companies.

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Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 19, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 -- Future of Television West. The event is designed to be interactive like the world we live in giving delegates the opportunity to share their ideas live at the event via text message and in moderated roundtable meetings. Transforming Television for a Connected World.

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Advertising Ideas Design Content 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 18, 2009

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 -- Future of Television West. The event is designed to be interactive like the world we live in giving delegates the opportunity to share their ideas live at the event via text message and in moderated roundtable meetings. Transforming Television for a Connected World.

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Advertising Ideas Design Content 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 9, 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 -- Security Review for the CIO. IPv6 does more than just give us more address space; it will change the way we think about designing and securing networks. IPv6 capability can't be fully understood when viewed from an IPv4 perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons. But I have different reasons for being excited about Gogii. You fish where your customers are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

Think smartphone cameras, as opposed to a new smartphone design. If you can tell me with conviction about what you have learned to be a viable innovation opportunity in a specialized area you know well, I might believe that you can produce a return in my lifetime. Pick a specialized technology within an existing movement.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Examples Google 129

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac Brandenberg: Meteor Games is a game design studio, focused on casual social games. After about a year or year and a half into the business, we were really innovating the intellectual property, developing storylines and assets, and starting to go in a 3D direction. Can you talk about what you learned from that experience?

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

We sat down with Forsblom to learn more about what he learned from his experience in Finland, and what he's hoping to do here. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. That's what we're all about. I think, for Southern California, it provides much more freedom to design and build new things.

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Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

What do you get when you combine 7 panelist plus one moderator on to a stage for 30 minutes to talk about a serious topic? There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. If given a chance here’s what I would have talked about: 1. Answer: Not much. It’s a shame.

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Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? There is nothing to download and Stickam is 100% free.

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. First of all, tell us what Fine Art America is all about? print, in about a month metal prints, and greeting cards. 2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. I knew we had something.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

With this fast pace industry the elegant design we see if websites, is sometimes lost in translation. He and his company, Rocksauce, make sure to add high quality design back into each of the apps they create. After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. It simply makes more sense.

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Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Our goal in this article is to paint a realistic picture of how to think about performance early in the life of an application. A high-performance application is designed to perform well with a reasonable amount of hot data. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today.

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Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Let's talk about the technology first, and how it works? The origins of the design that we have goes back to a company from the United Kingdom in the late 90's, and actually came out of high speed, centrifuge technology which is used for uranium enrichment.

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Design Training Southern California Outsource Development 138

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Out of that, I got to learn about financial default, financial services, and banks. However, through that process, I got very depressed about the state of America's financial affairs, and wanted to figure out what I might be able to do about things. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner.

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Its certainly something to keep in mind.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Online merchandise range from being silly to creative design to daily items. Stacey Horowitz, Founder of SFAC, started the non-profit business from a trip to Peru in 2009. A non-profit organization can help build knowledge about fair trade and how it be a beneficial idea for an underdeveloped community.

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Social Media Sites Organization Help 87

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo declined my request to talk with CEO Hussein El-Ghoroury about the new funding and about the virtual reality display technology the company has been developing for over a decade. Ostendo spokesman SeongSoo Kim wrote in an e-mail, “We prefer not to be covered by any media at this moment.”.

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Technology Venture Capital Beverly Hills Funding 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm. Talk about what your products are used for? How we do that it is we've integrated a breadth of different technologies, and also designed and architected one software platform to manage all of that. Can you talk a bit about your recent funding round?

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Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup. Can you talk about your background? What is Punchcard? I started early on in my career.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Bushnell is currently co-founder and chief game designer for Anti-Aging Games. Veis specializes in making the impossible possible, predicting the future by creating it, and bringing about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Here are just a few: Nolan Bushnell , a seasoned entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc.

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Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

As larger, more established rich media providers have struggled to retool for the new mobile media universe, the Jetpack platform was built entirely in Java and HTML5, giving publishers and advertisers the ability to design unique units once and serve them seamlessly across all screens.

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Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In a recently published paper, Horvitz and Stanford computer science PhD student Ethan Fast analyzed the last 30 years of articles about artificial intelligence in the New York Times. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. You could just outspend. Lots to learn from him.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

With consumption of online video up “400% with the release of the Iphone 3G back in 2009” (MacRumors, Eric Slivka) and the numbers ever growing, it would be tough to testify that we aren’t as a globe, obsessed with online video. Giving Spitzer-Williams the green light for setting about finding a solution, which became Highlight Hunter. “I’ve

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Startup Content Design Organization 65

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. It's been awhile since we did an in-depth profile on ThisNext, tell us a bit about your new business strategy? What verticals are you thinking about?

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