SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. ” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. Visions pan of endless cold emails and long days attending meetups and pitch nights while your operations/tech team grind away.

Invest 100

Invest Startup Technical Review Software Review 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. Richard leveraged the fact that record companies were Student’s biggest advertisers to subsequently launch a record store.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

01% that means before even mid week arrives this startup company will have at least 18,511 people who will not only know this founders brand, but will have clicked over to the website. YouTube meant everything to the growth of their brand; keeping the company lights on, breaking into stores like Walmart, CVS and Walgreens.

Dollar Shave Club 101

Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Why Africa in terms of why did we set the company up there? It wasn’t really a case of ‘convincing’ anyone – our hedge fund partners, Tiger Global, approached us having read about us in TechCrunch and saw the significant potential in the company. Naturally, there was a stringent due diligence process, and this took a couple of months.

Netflix 82

Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. October 5, 2012. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

We spoke with Michael Chasin, the company''s co-founder, about the startup. In a long, convoluted way, the value proposition we bring to the client gives them many different options for lawyers they can choose from, not just based on price, but also based on their profile, experience levels, and client reviews. What''s LawKick about?

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As the consumer still needs a nudge towards what they may need, increasing online advertising into 13.7 Yet, the old model of branding won’t die without a fight.

Customer 74

Customer Custom Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As the consumer still needs a nudge towards what they may need, increasing online advertising into 13.7 Yet, the old model of branding won’t die without a fight.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Companies want to see their social media investment drive sales.” ” And due to empowerment, the consumer too wants to be addressed as a unique individual – not ‘marketed to’as part of some mythical mass audience. The company also released its Prediction & Trivia Game , which can live on sites of all kinds.

Platform 82

Platform Help Customer Custom 82

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” The premise of the article is that in an increasingly online world ruled by techies who don’t want to talk on the phone, the era of being able to call the company in which you do business is winding down. Believe me.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

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. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The passion of the company has remained consistent, although the manner in how we do that has evolved. Our goal, from the outset, since 2006 when we put the company together, was to bring together the extraordinary content on the Internet, whether that is a website, games, or videos for kids. It goes both ways. Cliff Boro: Yes.

Content 165

Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The company recently closed an impressive $19 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to build out the engineering teams. John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. Chartboost doesn’t take a cut.

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets?

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. Yesterday was a Monday. tl;dr summary.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305