SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Thursday, November 10, 2011 -- Los Angeles Twitter Dev Teatime. An to give developers, product managers and entrepreneurs from around the Los Angeles area a better understanding of Twitters application programming interface (API) and overall platform. See https://dev.twitter.com/form/los-angeles-dev-teatime.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Angel Platform Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2011

Irvine-based Local.com , which operates a network of local search sites, said today that it has acquired iTwango LLC , a developer of a technology platform for the group buying and daily deals space. According to Local.com, the move puts it into the group buying space, where it intends to launch new products towards the middle of 2011.

Sites 150

Sites Los Angeles Platform Networking 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 -- Twiistup. Twiistup combines a showcase for innovation, a platform for thought leaders and an audience of entrepreneurs, media and investors all wrapped in a unique, stylized environment that rivals a Hollywood production. More than just a conference, Twiistup is LA's biggest technology event.

Twiistup 113

Twiistup Hollywood Conference Platform 113

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Enterprise software startup Classy, which developed a platform through which it says nonprofit organizations have raised nearly $1 billion for their causes, has hired its first-ever chief revenue and chief product officers. Adam Aarons, the new chief revenue officer, was also named Classy’s president.

Software 40

Software San Diego Startup Platform 40

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011 -- Twiistup. Twiistup combines a showcase for innovation, a platform for thought leaders and an audience of entrepreneurs, media and investors all wrapped in a unique, stylized environment that rivals a Hollywood production. More than just a conference, Twiistup is LA's biggest technology event.

Twiistup 100

Twiistup Hollywood Conference Platform 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

spent 2011 raising our seed round, which we used to build our team.and launched the product into beta about a year ago, at the end of 2011. We then spent the first half of 2012 beta testing the product, getting feedback and input to the point where we could start selling it. Are people using the product now?

Mobile 197

Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And all the platform stuff. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. Just as Yves mentored me when I became his co-managing partner in 2011, he didn’t seek to ride off into the sunset either. Wait, What About Yves?

Venture Capital 361

Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 -- Developing and Publishing Freetoplay MMOs: From A to Z. Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds.

Develop 100

Develop Development Email Organization 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I personally come from DreamWorks, and was President of Production previous to taking the opportunity to come run M-GO. As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform. It turns out that Technicolor had already been separately developing a platform for digital media distribution.

Entertainment 197

Entertainment Netflix Marketing Content 197

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

According to the firm--which is traded OTC--the restricted common stock investment by Guthy-Renker also came with an extension of an agreement the two companies have until June 2011. READ MORE>>.

Commerce 100

Commerce Invest Equity Los Angeles 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. That’s much tougher than getting people to play with your hot product for 6 months.

Startup 309

Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Yammer Case Study Study 102

TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We outfitted the early-2011 vintage i7 workstation we are using as a database server in our dedicated-hardware tests with a Samsung 840 Pro solid state disk in preparation for running our new database updates test.

Framework 524

Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It''s more about connecting then with customer, than BloomNation sending orders through the platform. Farbod Shoraka: We started out in the summer of 2011. We launched the website to consumers nine months ago, and have just launched our florist business center to further build the florist platform and get more exposure.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rock Prodigy is Music Prodigy’s pioneer product and is a revolutionary interactive music app powered by patent-pending polyphonic pitch-recognition technology that allows musicians of all skill levels to use any instrument and provide instant performance feedback to accelerate learning. Winning Not By Sheer Luck. Winning Combination.

Education 106

Education Startup Technology Patents 106

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. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011. There's constant interaction and testing.

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

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. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. We want to delight the end user, and want to create a really, highly addictive product here.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 2011 Hello Music became the fastest growing musician-focused company in the U.S ” Hello Music has successfully created a new ecosystem and platform for musicians. Hello Music is the first centralized marketplace and platform for musicians. This is a monumental milestone for the musician-focused marketplace.

Los Angeles 64

Los Angeles Platform Media Activity 64

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Launched in 2011 by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, Nest is popular for its Nest Learning Thermostat , one that learns a user’s temperature preferences, which has been also been its top seller. As early as 2011, Fadell and Erik Charlton showed Sergey Brin a video of their early model of the Nest Learning Thermostat. .

Google 86

Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Pharmaceutical companies spent $20 billion a year marketing their products to medical offices. Dan Gilman: We provide a cloud-based platform for medical practices to more efficiently coordinate and communicate with representatives, from pharmaceutical and other medical companies who are calling on their practice. What is RxVantage?

Marketing 231

Marketing Software Education Startup 231

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joey Flores, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Earbits (a Y Combinator Winter 2011 company). Earbits is a marketing platform for music related products built around interactive radio experiences. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 – 7-9pm. What value is that investment providing today? Tickets: $10.00

Incubator 64

Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

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. How did you get involved with Microsoft?

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

However, none of these programs have the industry knowledge to help highly technical founders in the data sciences to commercialize their research or build out their products,” says Chamath Palihapitiya , Founder and Managing Partner at The Social+Capital Partnership.

Netflix 82

Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. iGoogle at the moment cannot compete with newer apps on platforms like Chrome and Android .

Google 68

Google RSS Technical Support Web 68

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. wonder what that might be?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. What is Zunguz? Why the name?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. What is Tradesparq? How long has company been around?

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

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 Software Review Startup Platform 216

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2010

PAC-Man grew to become a cultural icon, a game that would change the face of gaming, spawning new versions for nearly every platform released during last 30 years. Like 2009 (and 2008), Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are pushing their motion-controlled products on an all-too-eager public. You’re in for a fantastic 2010-2011 gaming year.

Screening 58

Screening Platform Product Technology 58

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360