SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 2011 International Games Innovation Conference continues the tradition of focusing on the latest developments in game technology and developments that began in London in 2009 and continued in Hong Kong in 2010.

Conference 100

Conference Software Review Technical Review Research 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , developer of the computer game development software Gamebryo LightSpeed, reported today that it had a 35 percent increase in revenues year-over-year, and a 58 percent increase in its profitability during 2009. READ MORE>>.

Technology 162

Technology Software Engineering Calabasas Content 162

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The San Diego arm of the Founder Institute , the entrepreneurship mentoring effort started by Adeo Ressi, said Friday that it has graduated 12 companies from its Fall 2009 San Diego semester.

San Diego 157

San Diego Mentor Platform Sites 157

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Social network app developer and ad network. Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. We were really there in the early days of the Facebook platform.

IP 217

IP PHP Design Startup 217

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Though to be clear, no platform is infinitely performant; so at some point an algorithm’s complexity will require more complex architecture.).

Web 200

Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. Instructors: Dr. Matt Sagal, former VP of Business Development for Lucent Microelectronics, Dr. Gene Slowinski, Director of Strategic Alliance Research, Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Dan G. See [link] (more).

Acquisition 100

Acquisition CalTech IP Metrics 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 19, 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009 -- SoCal Code Camp. Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community. Rock and Roll Code Camp.

SoCal 100

SoCal Southern California Content Platform 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 18, 2009

Saturday, January 24, 2009 -- SoCal Code Camp. Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community. Rock and Roll Code Camp.

SoCal 100

SoCal Southern California Content Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. Teacheo - an online tutoring platform with a live virtual classroom.

Incubator 40

Incubator Develop Development Social Network 40

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2009

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , developer of the Gamebryo LightSpeed game development engine, reports today that it had a 45% increase in earnings during the first half of 2009. Actual financial details of the growth, or customer wins behind that growth, were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Technology 100

Technology Calabasas Software Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 -- Mobile Experience 2.0. After years of dialog on mobile convergence, what has actually converged on the mobile platform is the high quality experience, spurred by innovations in Media Content (Video, Music, Movies, T.V.), in an open Forum at UCLA. See [link] (more).

Mobile 100

Mobile UCLA Screening Media 100

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. What is Burstly? Our space is pretty young.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. . OTHER DEALS. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

But if you want to be able to repeat your success on your next campaign you need to know more about how you drove those clicks: Which social platform were they published on? Of course it’s valuable to know how many clicks you drive. If you sent multiple Tweets you’d want to know which time of day was more effective. And so forth.

Marketing 307

Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010.

Invest 340

Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We've also developed a version in partnership with Samsung for their connected TVs and video players, and recently released an iPhone version. We also have a bunch of other versions in development, which will be integrated into videogame consoles, into other connected televisions, tablets, smartphones, and so forth.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Organization Services 232

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. And of course we have dozens of other data sources making us a much broader platform than Twitter data.

CTO Hire 309

CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. In the end, our persistent focus on delivering value to startups, our readers, and a lengthy list of fantastic organizations, from Fortune 50 companies to local economic development groups, is what allowed us to grow.

Media 175

Media News Organization Content 175

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Southern California 150

Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009. Right now, we are running targeted ads using ad networks or whatnot.

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

We're currently developing applications on Facebook. 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. So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year.

Beverly Hills 182

Beverly Hills Advertising Design Activity 182

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Why are they doing it on textPlus? People like free.

Gogii 310

Gogii Invest Blogging Activision 310

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. This application is nothing different than a to-do list, similar to hundreds we’ve seen from other developers.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. So, how long has the company been around? We've been live for around thirteen months.

Ticketmaster 140

Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. I headed up product development to build out their portal services. As Vice President of Development, I took it from zero to a top 10 website in a year and a half, and was part of the management team that took it public.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.

Advertising 40

Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

I saw an opportunity to bring enterprise software-like selling methodologies to digital advertising and support that with a platform to make the selling and buying process more efficient. and there is an independent trading platform supporting it (SABRE Systems) that enforces pricing rules, and that an entire ecosystem has grown up around.

Advertising 59

Advertising Sales Software Platform 59

Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences , founded in 2009 to advance a fluorescing biologic agent intended to help surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, has completed a $20 million Series C round of venture funding. and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures.

Avalon 40

Avalon San Diego Study Invest 40

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. Bryan Cheung: In 2009, we switch to a subscription model. However, they tend to be maverick developers in a large organization, or working independently. Can you explain that in a more concrete way?

Diamond Bar 169

Diamond Bar Custom Customer Organization 169

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 13, 2011

Started in 2009 by founder Myke Armstrong , he believes Lissn is reinventing online conversations by creating a unique user experience, by allowing user to chat with two people at a time and allowing anyone to “lissn&#. Lissn, in my opinion, has the potential to become an amazing platform to engage users in a global dialogue.

Startup 76

Startup Sites Social Media Newsletter 76