socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

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 started working on the new IP, and that's the game we announced the deal with Zynga on. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create. This is a huge mistake.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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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. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Being tenacious without the mental flexibility to pivot based on market feedback is a disaster. If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I finally called bullshit.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. But, what I think has happened is you see a lot of companies that have really gone after that corporate market. How long has Bccthis been around? Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2010

Sprint announced today that they are bringing 4G to seven new WiMAX markets one of which is LA. With 27 markets already equipped with 4G and more being planned for this year, Sprint is fulfilling its promise to light up major metropolitan areas with speeds that are up to 10 times faster1 than 3G. Industry published 3G avg.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. We're really excited about 2009. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. Hi guys, thanks for getting together.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

KTSi) announced it had acquired the rail assets of Pentadyne Power, and set up shop targeting the use of flywheel technology in the rail market. When their parent firm pulled up support for that company in 2004, they went out of business, but the technology and the IP lived on. It's a very broad market.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer. crawl.baidu.com";}. to 65.55.255.255 (131.107.0.0

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