socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Interested in getting some help in getting your startup off the ground and funded? The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011 -- LAPHP April Talk: Chef by Opscode. Now helping folks build fully automated infrastructure as a Technical Evangelist for Opscode, Inc. Aaron will give a basic overview of Chef, a leading open source tool and framework for automating configuration and systems integration.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -- Social Media for Social Good. We'll discuss tips on how organizations can work together to use these digital marketing and social media tools to find strategic partners, coordinate campaigns, and join forces to help each other reach good goals. Digital LA. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 27, 2011

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 -- Clean Technology Leaders Conference and Business Mixer. Presentation will review critical pre-requisites, planning and follow-on actions required to help start or grow a successful business. SPEAKER: John Ricardi, President and CEO, HiTech Initiatives. See [link] (more)

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Tech.Co

JULY 6, 2015

We touched upon their business model, long term vision for BloomNation, and specifically how his company is helping to empower small florists by offering them a platform to market their creations. Shoraka started the company with two friends back in 2011. Some would argue that the mom & pop shop is dying.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 3, 2011

Friday, January 7, 2011 -- Search, PR and Reputation Management. Traditional SEO techniques used to help with reputation management issues, but today a combination of techniques is necessary to influence the "conversation" that search results increasingly represent. San Diego Software Industry Council. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based CitySourced , the developer of a mobile tool for helping involve citizens in local government headed by Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, has linked up with Microsoft and its Windows Azure platform, the firms said Tuesday. The firm is using Microsoft Windows Azure for its application infrastructure.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So, I decided to take a leap of faith, and leave my comfy corporate job, and go around to flower shops and get a full understanding of how they operate, how they run their business, and help solve this problem. We partner with them, and give them tools to help their business. Farbod Shoraka: We started out in the summer of 2011.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange. Here's a simple example to help you visualize this.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The equity round will help it built more compelling technology to analyze social data to provide deep user analytics, actionable insights and personalized offers for its clients. Co-founded in 2011 by Sina Sohangir and Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GraphDive raised over $1 million in initial funding. Social login tools.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

We spoke with Christopher Webb, the firm's CEO, to hear about how ChowNow's goal is to make mobile, social orders something any restaurant can afford and implement--and how a new $3M funding round from GRP Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, Karlin Ventures, and Velos Partners is helping it to deliver on its mission.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

During the latter half of 2011, Google awarded a number of leading YouTubers and nascent Internet TV networks grants of $1 million to $2 million. One of the best examples of this integration is DeStorm’s November 2011 video in which he raps about Ryobi tools while running through the aisles at Home Depot. I got the power.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Weve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! Two Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests. ApacheBench remains a single-threaded tool, meaning that for higher-performance test scenarios, ApacheBench itself is a limiting factor.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

We''ve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! Two Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests. ApacheBench remains a single-threaded tool, meaning that for higher-performance test scenarios, ApacheBench itself is a limiting factor.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Go Trexx (www.gotrexx.com), which is based in Mission Viejo, think it's by engaging kids with mobile applications which provide background information, helps to build excitement, and gets kids involved in traveling to different destinations. I sold that company in 2011, and then used the proceeds to start Go Trexx.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

· Tuition.io, dubbed Mint.com for student loans, has helped students from over 130 universities manage over $100 million in debt, which represents over 10,000 student loans. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. . The founders previously ran another company together.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Will Zell (CEO) is based in Columbus, OH, and is an Empact100 entrepreneur who was honored at The White House in 2011. A graduate of Ohio Northern University , Ferres built a digital marketing agency called BounceFire , which was acquired in May 2011 by a company in Phoenix, AZ. Who are the founders/ background? What Inspired You?

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

The hacks below should help you do just that. While back in 2011, a cell phone user received or made 12 phone calls a day on average, the number has dropped to just 6 calls in 2015. Next, instead of investing in an advanced industry go-to tool, try a simple, more scalable alternative first. Shift to Snapchat-Styled Videos.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

Bock, who died last Wednesday at 56, was a life sciences entrepreneur and investor who helped start or finance dozens of companies that have a combined market value estimated today at roughly $70 billion. When Xconomy came to San Diego in 2008, he also readily volunteered to help our editorial mission as an Xconomist. ).

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. What tips can you share to help emerging entrepreneurs be as responsive? “I You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

“The reason I am doing this is because this is the way I can have the biggest impact on helping entrepreneurship become more successful.”. This offline event was successful in helping Kaviani find his own cofounder, Culin Tate, and a new venture. In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Why do developers use your tools? I do think the key in bootstrapping is that it helps you organically, in that you make decisions you wouldn''t have made otherwise, out of need. We called 2011 and 2012 the years of shotgun media buying. Plus, our In-App Banner Apps product has also been scaling very fast.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Five years ago, in November 2011, a company from Princeton, NJ, called Pharmasset shared news that would have an impact on millions of people around the world with hepatitis C. Vertex began as a bootstrapped startup in 1989 and was on its way to being a profitable enterprise that helped thousands of patients with a devastating disease.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

We provides a suite of simple tools to allow individuals, small businesses, and non-profits to get up and running quickly and accepting payments online. The name came from the earliest iteration of our product, which helped groups of people pool money for shared expenses. WePay’s tools are also much easier to use.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Our fitness events and mapping tool is a key differentiator. Really great feedback that’s going to help us build an awesome product.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

Tools to fight day-to-day public service issues. According to Mehta who says is a firm believer in the power of crowdsourced and open sourced technology, “We have created Code For India to provide tools to fight day-to-day public service issues.”. The teams of volunteer individuals and organizations are not just in for hype.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

YouTube claims the new search tools also help users find videos faster as they give hints as one types the search and lets users sort through videos or channels, comments simultaneously as they watching another video. billion, or 90% of consolidated revenues, a 21% increase over second quarter 2011 revenues of $9.03

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2016

Effectively, what we deliver is a tool for those drivers, so they can focus on one thing, which is making money. In 2011, the on-demand category didn't exist, but in the last four years, the fleet has gone from what was 0 vehicles, to an estimate of 2 million people in the U.S. We launched in Los Angeles last August.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

Garrett was most recently a venture capitalist at Crosscut Ventures, who helped identify and fund ShoeDazzle--co-founded the company with Beal, a fashion industry insider who was introduced to Garrett by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig. Allison Beal: StyleSaint is a collaborative fashion brand. Each one took six hours to make.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

It’s a communication tool. Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. I said, “if you can help first-time entrepreneurs get access to investors – that’s golden. 2011 is one big cocktail party all over again.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Matt sold his last startup, Thriva, to Active Network, and was part of the team that build up Active Network until its successful IPO in 2011. We thought we could add lots of value by servicing that pain, by producing real information for consumers, to help guide them through the process of maintaining and improving their property.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

Scott Ferreira: MySocialCloud helps user manage their online life, through three tools. By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. First off, what is MySocialCloud?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. Willis Hsieh: When I first met Dina, she was a technology transfer associate at UCLA, and she helped us get our license to the technology. percent efficiency.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I wish we had better policies to help those that weren’t born with the same educational backgrounds as I was since education seems to be the great divider in terms of future opportunities. As Charles would tell you, even small donations help make young kids dreams come true. Let them stay and help create jobs.

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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. These products help him win his core sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. What is your driving force, energy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. Hone in on sites, tools, and applications your target audience is using. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010. small businesses.

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