socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. LiveNation.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The latest MoneyTree report from the three find that $603.2M

Southern California 212

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Capital 212

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 -- Content World Turned Upside Down: Can Traditional Media Adapt? In a world dominated by Google, Apple and Facebook, can the other content and media companies retain or regain their former glory? TCOSC Digital Media Society.

Content 113

Content Technology Council TCOSC Cloud Computing 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). There are none of those resellers for Amazon Web Services or Google.

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Wes Nichols: We were introduced to Elevation and Roger McNamee, who runs Elevation, through senior executives at Google who we have had a partnership with.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Co-founded in 2011 by Sina Sohangir and Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GraphDive raised over $1 million in initial funding. GraphDive uses social login tools such as Facebook Connect, Twitter, LinkedIn and (now) Google+ login to provide deep user analytics for the enterprise via a simple API and enterprise dashboard. Social login tools.

Equity 65

Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” For instance, in 2000 Gartner created the term Supranet to describe how software would connect disparate hardware – proclaiming the advent of the Internet Of Things a decade and a half too early.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s basically Google for icons. In 2011 I talked to a friend, Steffen Thilsted , who asked me if we should join a startup-competition called VentureCup together. We won in our region and got to the finals were ended up winning the first prize in the software category (and got on national television).

Design 65

Design Web Design Google Develop 65

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA).

Draper 68

Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In a 2011 CDC report , nearly 67% of U.S Compound that by the exponential growth of smart devices from 2011-2013 , we’re looking at a need for rapid development in the next few years. Keynote address by Jim Farley (Ford Motors CMO) and Tarun Bhatnagar (Director of Google Maps for Business). That much is obvious.

Mobile 94

Mobile Google Startup Technology 94

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

CFI is looking to enlist Indian-origin tech professionals, some who are software engineers from Microsoft, Google, eBay, VISA and Facebook among others to join other volunteers and organizations to give back to their community. Think Local, Hack Global. and international markets, something great will happen. and sold it to VISA Inc.

Clearstone 79

Clearstone Organization Education Google 79

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. For the fitness professional: A simple software solution that streamlines their business operations and keeps clients engaged.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

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. “How much is that software really worth?

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. When was it launched? Who are the founders and their backgrounds?

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Download the TechCrunch App for Android in Google Play. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Zuckerberg Interview. Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Colleen Taylor.

SoCal 77

SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

No reports have indicated as of yet as to whether Apple’s new project will have similarities to other auto projects currently being undertaken by companies such as Google and Tesla. These companies include Google and Tesla Motors. It is not clear yet what technologies will go into Apple’s version of the electric vehicle.

Google 40

Google Design Patents Report 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest. In stepped Zite.

Newsletter 79

Newsletter Content Social Media Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2012

In the fall of 2011 Apple introduced the world Siri your personal virtual assistant (PVA). Now for those with a iPhone 4S, Siri was an exciting new tool. You could talk to her, ask her questions, get your schedule, and even ask her for a joke if you were having a bad day. But what if you were on a phone other than the iPhone 4S?

Mobile 64

Mobile Conference Google Marketing 64

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest. In stepped Zite.

Newsletter 56

Newsletter Content Social Media Startup 56

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). Not necessarily.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. Besides, why call when you can use Google, or send a Twitter message?” Google doesn’t seem to ever take calls from ME when I have a complaint! Google, Facebook & Twitter all provide free services to end users and we eat them up.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. In 2011, Business Insider ranked Legal Zoom No. Share on Google+. billion in shares.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. That may be.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

As an author, social entrepreneur and the former “Chief Popsicle” of Feverish Ice Cream, Hatcher was named one of the Empact 100 Top 100 Entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the White House and Kauffman Foundation in 2011 and a 2014 White House Champion of Change for STEM Access and Diversity. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. This post is an accusation. call to arms.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. Application Characteristics Any discussion of performance starts by understanding what the software does, how it is used, and what it interacts with. Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO. The pages or API response we provide back.

Startup 150

Startup SEO CTO Coach Web 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 This never existed a decade ago.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What we've done, we've made this as simple as Google. Email is becoming ineffective, and by 2011 there will be three times more smart phones than computers. We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed. How does your service work?

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

Guy Kawasaki Talks About “Artisanal” Publishing, also covering a wide range of topics from using social media to build a Guy-like platform, the mega battle between Facebook and Google+, Apple versus Android religious issues, and the dumbest things you can do with social media. Shani Higgins took over as CEO at Technorati in 2011.

Social Media 72

Social Media Media Blogging Platform 72

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Just as we are summed up by the advertising methodologies of the 1950’s as unpredictable and irrational (The Economist, Sex and Advertising, 2011), not only are we both these traits, but also with the power of click-a-mouse comparison shopping we are perhaps pickier, more demanding and less ‘experience’ oriented over product features.

Customer 74

Customer Custom Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Just as we are summed up by the advertising methodologies of the 1950’s as unpredictable and irrational (The Economist, Sex and Advertising, 2011), not only are we both these traits, but also with the power of click-a-mouse comparison shopping we are perhaps pickier, more demanding and less ‘experience’ oriented over product features.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

We started thinking about new ways of interacting with social networks in November 2011. Sometimes our name appears close to Flipboard or the new Google+ client. Of course we were thinking also on the expression “gift of the gab(i)” How long have you been working on Gabi? Gabi is nearly eight months old.

Social Network 89

Social Network Startup CTO Coach Social Media 89

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. Obviously there are other tech in the pipeline such as wearable technology and Google Glass that will continue to evolve what mobile means. Android Apps & Software iPhone Mobile Startups Apps candidate Craigslist employer job seeker pablo fuentes proven'

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378