SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- Young Digital Entrepreneurs. The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab welcomes a panel of tech-savvy innovators to discuss the digital market and social media and how they won success by engaging audiences. USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. million subscribers on YouTube.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur USC Social Media Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Businesses of all sizes are realizing cost savings, efficiencies and productivity gains they never thought possible. Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. The survey also found that business revenues could reach the $1.1

Cloud Computing 85

Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru. I love the web and love Internet marketing. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat. READ MORE>>.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. We were doing this one product called “Small Business Hires”, similar to the employer app we launched today, all web-based. We have been able to develop a good product.

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS. Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel. That system was launched as its own, separate company in late 2011. However, it tends to work only on a single server, or a single computer.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.”

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Those who didn’t get a ticket in time, turned to Zaarly where tickets sold on the SUW “grey-market” for up to $450 per ticket (this being up for discussion with potential upcoming policy changes). Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We came in and reorganized the product, team, and mission, and redeployed it in June of this year. We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. Daniel Scalisi: I've been in the mobile market for fifteen years. What is mobile fundraising?

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

Yelp, the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, has acquired SeatMe, a web and iPad-app based restaurant and nightlife reservation service. SeatMe has developed a truly compelling product for restaurants and bars of any size.” Yelp will pay approximately $2.2 million by July 24th. million by July 24th.

Class 81

Class Web Pricing Customer 81

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

They're really looking for enterprise-ready companies, who are innovative, and ready to scale, and who are really aligned with what Microsoft is trying to achieve with their customers and products. We built the first, networkable contact management product, Goldmine, to run on top of Novell. They now dominate the market.

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. Think YouTube but for creating and virally sharing rich web creations and going beyond broadcast. Think Minority Report meets the web. Give Us the Fast Pitch.

Startup 97

Startup Web Content Media 97

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

Startup 109

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. LiveNation.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. Talk about your other titles?

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Thanks, and good luck!

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh focuses on the medical information technology markets. Maneesh has more than nine years of product development and operational experience in the high tech industry. He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components. Sean Ellis.

Orange County 106

Orange County Miramar Startup Tech Coast Angels 106

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Steven Sesar: FreedomPop is all about bringing the freemium model to the wireless Internet market, and disrupting the telephone companies. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market. Clearwire is currently in 80 markets, and covers 140 million Americans across the U.S.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. to 9:30 p.m.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Where is the technology now, and is it on the market yet? 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. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies.

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Getting Mobile-Ready.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

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 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Marketing: SteelHouse. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Billion Market Opportunity. Play is Important.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools. He disclosed the struggles he went through in building a solid productive team. Their first few weeks in business we’d have brainstorming sessions on how to market. I am a raving fan of AppSumo.com. Bed Bath and Beyond does it.

Metrics 87

Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Absolutely love your products and do not think about the quick buck. Gregg Spiridellis pondered. “We

Screening 88

Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Additionally, the site allows lawyers to market their legal services by sharing expert advice and engaging in discussion. Their all new all electric car is set to be released for sale in limited quantities at the end of 2011.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. Gagnier serves as the Chief Executive Officer of REALPOLITECH , a digital public relations and web strategy consultancy.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Absolutely love your products and do not think about the quick buck. Gregg Spiridellis pondered. “We

Screening 65

Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. The marketer in you says sell sell sell and the passionate blogger says I just wanna create content my followers will love.

Blogging 83

Blogging Email Writing Sites 83