Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Many new startups and small businesses are shooting to crowdfund their campaign. I started my company with four of my friends and all of us are first time business owners and entrepreneurs. What IndieGoGo allowed us to do was start a campaign on October 2011 and we had a goal set at $10,000.

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Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” 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.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. After a record low of 39 U.S. Loss of control. Don’t be driven by greed to the wrong alternative.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

In this installment of TZ Startup Hot Seat we chat with Vincent Borel Co-Founder of Webdoc. As anyone in the startup world knows your team is what makes the difference and ours definitely does. When you develop a new product, especially one that is disrupting existing habits you are constantly integrating user feedback.

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Startup Web Content Media 97

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Clark Benson , CEO and Founder of Ranker (www.ranker.com), on how the firm is looking to harness that same force to power its own startup, which offers up a way for users to create their own ranked lists of pretty much anything. How long has the site been up and running? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. 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. Google EnergySense.

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Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

View Staff Page. Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

TechZulu caught up with Johan Nel, Founder and CEO. Referencing the traditional noticeboard concept, you start by creating a Mimiboard using a location, could be an area, town, street name. For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. What is a Mimiboard?

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Advertising Media News Content 91

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

TechZulu: Let’s start off with an obvious question. Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. 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.

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Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

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. Earlier, the firm said that FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups , and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), among others, had invested $1.6 Based in LA, and launched in 2011 by Eric M.

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Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. The authors made the point that, given the size of companies today, a single garden-variety blockbuster hardly moves the needle.

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Product Journal Venture Capital Demand 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a. NewTek Inc.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. In 2011, Business Insider ranked Legal Zoom No.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a. NewTek Inc.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

“Get into human clinical testing as quickly as possible with the goal of distributing the product for free after FDA approval. As of 2011, the annual death toll for AIDS-related mortalities was estimated to be 1.7 As we wrapped up the call, the gravity of all this hit me in the face with a massive weight.

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Artificial Inteligence AMA Organization Research 110

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work.

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Software Startup Tool Platform 234

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. —Healthcare giant Novartis (NYSE: NOV ) is breaking up its cell and gene therapy R&D group , laying off roughly 30 percent of staff. .

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News San Diego Journal Technical Review 57

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you can meet a partner up front it’s always best but sometimes it’s not possible. If you don’t, make sure you follow up and ask for feedback. Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk. Do you really still need a Powerpoint deck in 2011?

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Venture Capital Slides Doc Startup 340

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. I had always liked and respected CEO Joe Fernandez but could never get my head around the fact that the Klout was putting up charts showing who influenced me and it didn’t map to the reality I knew in my head. Every startup needs accounting and it’s often a huge distraction and non core.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

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. Not so open.

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Social Media Google Media Startup 274