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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This morning, we have Kevin Winston of Digital LA (www.digitalla.net), the organization which is LA's largest digital networking group and which is behind the Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted.

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Marina Del Rey Dollar Shave Club Beverly Hills Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

That’s what Kevin’s conference, Silicon Beach Fest (SBF), did for Los Angeles entrepreneurs. Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 included 17 panels ranging from ‘Public Relations for Start Ups’ to ‘How to Find and Hire a Developer’. It was followed by TechZulu’s infamous “ Tech Crawl ” hopping from start up to start up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). It’s funny but recently I was at the CornerstoneOnDemand conference in Santa Monica.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It’s the place where geeks go to cut loose, share their knowledge, test new concepts and network like crazy. We’ve partnered with Alcatel-Lucent’s NG Connect team to produce a trend lounge at the Hilton in downtown Austin, right in the heart of the conference. This year, we invite you to join TechZulu LIVE from SXSW.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

While it won’t be completely exclusive to Google+ (Facebook’s launch will be later in Q1 of 2012), the release is for Google+ gamers only. conference, Google+ Games has a user base of 40 million playing their library of 30 titles (mostly ports and re-boots off of Facebook). According to an announcement at a recent Web 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! Despite what you read in the media HTML5 web applications can be extremely powerful and engaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. None of these.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It is that time of year again, when the digital and tech world looked up from their busy workload just long enough to make sure that they are “represented” with a kickass submission for a panel or two at the most prestigious conference all year, SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive Festival). Your Network=Your Net Worth.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. He built & IPOd Demand Media. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). for $565 million to Excite.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. NON: I very much started with people in my network in the beginning. NON: I judge a lot of pitch competitions and speak at a lot of conferences.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. Mallavarapu calls Blipboard a social map that gives you location based alerts in a follower network, not unlike Twitter’s model. Internal cross promotion within their own portfolio of apps, the marketplace and network as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

The Digital Detox Retreat September 13-16, 2012. Four days off the grid – with no clocks, technology or media – a chance to getaway from the fast paced world and truly recharge. So, this is not a networking event? As technologists living online in real time all the time, it is easy to lose perspective on life.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

October 5, 2012. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

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