From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Sites 40

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. The whole Journey app building experience takes place inside your web browser, so there’s no software to install. Journey is especially useful for companies that want to streamline their internal business processes.

Mobile 65

Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Jason also spearheads customer-driven, innovative features and functionality throughout all of infragistics’ products. Register here.

JavaScript 93

JavaScript Long Beach Java .Net 93

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

If online retailing is one of the most tumultuous and fast-changing corners of the Internet, the growth of marketing technologies that retailers use to serve their customers and to personalize their shopping experience has been an even wilder ride. The differentiator is going to be customer experience.”.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We're partnering with the biggest insurance brands, including Nationwide, and many, many others�25 different insurance companies�and taking their insurance policies and selling them in a unified way, making it available to consumers via iOS and Android apps and the web. We were eventually acquired by a large competitorin 2012.

Southern California 244

Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Initially, my desire to go into the mobile space came from my love for design and my weariness with web or print related art. Outside of refinement, there’s going to be a big push on cross-platform apps that aren’t built in the native languages for those platforms. Mobile app design is worlds apart from web design.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Approachable.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Who are its founders?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. The Resumator has well over 1,000 customers, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Job Syndication And Customized Job Boards.

SaaS 209

SaaS Tool Startup Screening 209

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. This means not having to worry about spending extra time negotiating and collecting superfluous paperwork at the storage facility.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Joe: I came to the Coachella Valley in January of 2012 to serve as the Founder and Managing Director of the Palm Springs iHub. Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints.

Startup 105

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 105

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Joe: I came to the Coachella Valley in January of 2012 to serve as the Founder and Managing Director of the Palm Springs iHub. Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints.

Startup 119

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 119

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. Problems Daily Deal Couponing Presented for Business Owners.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry. Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g., Cloud Architecture – Most cloud projects are now built on OpenStack an open source virtualization platform.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

with a new two-year customer agreement. Software Platform. Messaging/Web/Apps. It’s the longest-lasting smartphone on the block, and at just 8.99 The DROID RAZR MAXX comes equipped with 32 GB of total memory and will be $299.99 Or, Drive across the desert from LA to Las Vegas – and back again – using GPS navigation.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Google Software Review Yahoo 64

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Check out the inaugural Startup UCLA companies, as self-described, below: Accelsor – Accelsor simplifies custom website creation into a single step by eliminating the prototyping and coding stages. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. George Thiruvathukal. Back Page.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

12,000 apps currently on the platform. ” Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator – a platform for building network-connected mobile apps across native platforms. Mobile is a different animal than Web. Listen in to learn why Swiftkey chose to focus on Android first, and how it rose to the best-selling Android app of 2012.

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Spotlight: LA Tech Fall will take place Thursday, February 2, at 7pm. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. We’re interested in being at the leading edge of how people search and explore the web based on images. Our mission is to create a dynamic platform with powerful tools that provide the most engaging user experience possible. When was it launched? Have you had any challenges?

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. you’re not following him?

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News Web Email Startup 324