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.”. This nationwide initiative was just launched and will undergo testing during the 2011 Holiday Season. “A

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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. We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app. What is Zunguz?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. Most of the people, who use our app are based on three verticals: service and hospitality, health care administrative, and clerical. Meaning, write very good job descriptions, but that doesn’t mean you need to write long ones. The company almost died.

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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. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Thanks to our Sponsors! We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Although, the overall message of the film is quite bleak as they point to the mediocrity that more access to creation and freedom of distribution creates. . “The idea was to build something that ‘shows’ and ‘enchants,’” which is, in fact, what the Japanese word Miselu translates as.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen. Here’s a summary of our interview.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

BusinessWeek named Bill and Rich two of the Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2011. As college students trying to collect money for tutoring services PayPal was difficult to rely on for funds. Before joining WePay, Rich briefly attended NYU Law in the Academic Scholars Program in Law and Business. Key features and how does it work?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. And so it goes again.

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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. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Thanks to our Sponsors! We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. customers who paid for services often get burned. I believe that. That may be. Bubbles are not all bad.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

This group was responsible in leading the successful campaign against Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ), a bill introduced in the US House of Rep in 2011, which was created to restrict access to websites that illegally shared copyrighted property. In 2011, Swartz was indicted on federal charges of illegally downloading over 4.8

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. Sometime in 2011, I started to notice that the content I was putting out on Twitter was not getting the attention that it used to. It was, and still is, an incredible customer service tool. THE LAUNCH OF TWITTER: THE INTERNET’S COCKTAIL PARTY.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. The Past (1985-2002).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." call to arms.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. In our regions? Fuggetaboutit – show me the money !

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the framework''s data mapping code. Two Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests. Environment Details. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large Load simulator.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the frameworks data mapping code. Two Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests. Environment Details. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large Load simulator.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. While he is publicly saying that he expects a modestly improved economy in 2011 , it’s hard to be too sanguine when you look at the data. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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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. - First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. Not just the fact that you Tweet publicly versus privately, but also that they’re open in letting their Tweet stream flow into other products & services.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Note that I didn’t say there will be total “convergence&# – but I believe the services will inter-operate. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. So entering 2011 why does this matter?

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