TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Among the features that the company intends to roll out as it expands is a dynamic pricing capability that will enable manufacturers to wring the most out of their goods when they’re in high demand. LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs.

Startup 285

Startup Product Demand Los Angeles 285

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

Uber launched its services in Los Angeles in March of 2012, and followed with expansion into San Diego in June of 2012. The firm's smartphone app lets users summon a towncar by simply clicking into the software; and rides are priced by distance and also by current demand for rides. and Boston for operations in those cities.

San Diego 170

San Diego Los Angeles Services Demand 170

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Organic Academia.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Citing numbers from th ecomScore July 2012 report, the Los Angeles-based site--which is part of AtomicOnline--said it now has nearly 25 million readers. Online women's publishing site SheKnows has bumped into the 50 largest web properties in the U.S., the site said this week.

Web 150

Web AtomicOnline Internet Brands Demand 150

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

“We wanted to have a very good consumer experience out of the gate and use the demand to inform whether we should officially partner with those brands,” founder and CEO Lee Hnetinka told TechCrunch. Hnetinka, you may remember, founded WunWun back in 2012 to provide on-demand delivery for stores and businesses.

Product 236

Product Commerce Los Angeles Demand 236

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged.

Hollywood 254

Hollywood Cloud Computing Netflix Google 254

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Most controllers out there now are timers, which basically do not react to water demand. Instead, we run a model in the cloud based on the weather and calculate actual water demand, and we adjust the schedule on a daily basis. We do see the biggest demand in spring and summer, but we don''t think that is insurmountable.

Demand 258

Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The bill -- AB 155 -- delays the collection of tax by Amazon.com until at least September 2012, enough time for either lawmakers in Washington time to craft a national tax bill, or for Amazon to prepare for collecting taxes in the state.

Demand 145

Demand 145

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2014

Handybook , one of a crop of new companies which provides on-demand, mobile access to local service providers--in this case, handyman services and house cleaners--said yesterday that it has launched its services in Los Angeles, and also hired a local general manager.

Los Angeles 159

Los Angeles Angel Marketing Southern California 159

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Ross Lipson, the chief executive officer and co-founder of the on-demand marijuana and cannabis delivery service, Dutchie, had thought he was done with the online delivery business. where he’d retired after selling his online food delivery business GrubCanada to JustEat, the European tech-enabled delivery giant, back in 2012.

Services 259

Services Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles 259

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The companies said that nominees for the Eventful 2012 Fans' Choice Award will come ia a combination of Billboard's Boxscore chart and Eventful's fan Demands; those awards will be presented in New York in November. Eventful is headed by Jordan Glazier; the firm's site is used by consumers to find local events and concerts.

San Diego 133

San Diego Demand Sites Platform 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 26, 2012

Friday, June 1, 2012 -- The Israel Conference. May 31 and June 1, 2012. The Israel Conference is a fast-paced business conference showcasing the vitality and growth of Israel-facing business through a variety of panels on hot industry topics and trends with world-class speakers and high-quality networking. See [link] (more)

Conference 113

Conference High Tech Commerce Class 113

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Broadcom said the growth in 10GbE and 40GbE networking is being fueled by demand for streaming video, cloud computing, and server virtualization. The firm said its PHY products are sampling now, with production in mid-2012; its mux/demux products are expected to hit production volumes in the first half of the year. READ MORE>>.

Product 140

Product Cloud Computing Sample Conference 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Earlier this week, Deloitte released its latest list of the top 500 growing technology companies, in its 2012 Technology Fast 500. Brown 438 Volcano Corporation 163% San Diego Scott Huennekens 445 Demand Media, Inc. The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Southern California 242

Southern California Marina Del Rey El Segundo San Diego 242

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 17, 2012

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 -- Amplify Roundtables presents: The Leading Edge Technology Series Join us and connect with technology professionals for an extraordinary evening in Galpins classic car museum! WHAT'S HOT AND WHY?

Technology 113

Technology Demand Media Marketing 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 9, 2012

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 -- Mobile Broadband: LTE and Beyond. The need for mobile broadband grows every day, as enterprise use and various applications (especially video) drive demand for high-speed, low-latency data.

Mobile 113

Mobile Demand Research Marketing 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 25, 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012 -- The Israel Conference. May 31 and June 1, 2012. The Israel Conference is a fast-paced business conference showcasing the vitality and growth of Israel-facing business through a variety of panels on hot industry topics and trends with world-class speakers and high-quality networking. See [link] (more)

Conference 100

Conference High Tech Commerce Class 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 3, 2013

The global economy faces serious headwinds, including the lingering effects of the American recession, slowing demand among our European and Asian trading partners, apparent gridlock in Washington over the 'fiscal cliff', and a long list of other issues. EventId=5358andF_m=12andF_y=2012. Dr. Sung Won Sohn, of CSU-Channel Islands.

Journal 113

Journal Demand 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 -- Profligate Systems Engineering. The complexity of current and future engineering endeavors continues to increase non-linearly as we demand more and more integration of and inter-relationship between our devices and our data.

Demand 113

Demand Acquisition Technology 113

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair. More specifically, it’s the contractors that service equipment like the heating, ventilation and cooling systems at commercial and residential properties across the U.S.

Glendale 271

Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 21, 2012

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 -- Deep Analytics: IBM Watson and Jeopardy. At our March 27th event, IBM will explore the technology and systems engineering approach with Watson that enabled it to not only answer questions, but meet the unusually demanding performance requirements needed to win the game. Was it only a game?

IBM 100

IBM IBM Demand Technology 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2012

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 -- LAVA Special Event: Venture Funding in Digital Media. Moderator: Sam Jones, Founder and CEO, Formation Media, Inc; Confirmed Panelists: Paul Bricault, Co-founder, Amplify.la, Leigh Collier, VP of programming/development, CBS, Mike Wann, Head of Business Development, Demand Media. See [link].

Media 100

Media Funding LAVA Incubator 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2018

The company said the funding will go to meet demand from both U.S. Apeel was initially started in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. and international fresh food suppliers and retailers, across the avocado, citrus, berry, stone fruit, and asparagus categories.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara Demand Funding Product 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

He thinks demand for IPOs (from buyers) remains high while supply is low because Sarbanes Oxley amongst other things has made less CEOs want to go public. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012.

Venture Capital 241

Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Companies 241

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There’s Metromile, which launched its personalized pay-per-mile auto insurance in 2012. Also, with so many people shifting to working from home over the last year, Just says it has seen increased demand this year. Image Credits: Just Insure. Of course, Just is not the first company to offer personalized auto insurance.

Startup 203

Startup Customer Custom Los Angeles 203

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

The network grew exponentially from its earliest days, with the number of connected host computers reaching 100 by 1977, 100,000 by 1989, a million by the early 1990’s, and a billion by 2012; it now serves more than half the planet’s population. Sadly, the internet is far more complicated to access than that.

UCLA 253

UCLA Social Media Social Network Santa Barbara 253

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).

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

High unemployment, wage stagnation, lowering real estate prices and the lowering of demand for products may lead to deflation (where prices of goods & services decrease each month – i.e. the opposite of inflation). The same happened in autos and one could argue that the same has happened with the government stimulus overall.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Josh Meyers: When I looked at Slickdeals at 2012, I saw a company that had been around for more than ten years, a company that had incredible content--really amazing content. That''s how we got into LA. What did you see at Slickdeals which attracted you to the company? And, it had an incredibly loyal and passionate user base.

Content 212

Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. So Investor A might have bought 20% of your company in 2012 and in 2013 with no addition money invested suddenly owns 40% of your company. But entrepreneurs – convertible notes have no MINIMUM!

Startup 354

Startup Pricing Equity Venture Capital 354

Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

My 16 year old was living with his mom this past year as my business of 12 years went under in June of 2012. Instead of demanding he do his work, I jumped in and worked with him. I’m a good father and I love them more than my own life. You get what I mean. The brand was a household name and my son knew it.

SoCal 174

SoCal Southern California IBM IBM 174

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

Marketing 94

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 94

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

It is the first app that brings on-demand music using voice technology. Vela was first introduced to the startup world at the AlwaysOn Hollywood event where it was honored as the Top 25 Companies to Watch for 2012. Mason plans on adding other features such as YouTube and 8Tracks to Vela’s list of popular on-demand services.

Startup 95

Startup Demand Hollywood Ideas 95

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.

GRP Partners 88

GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Matthijs Keij, CEO FlxOne, is opportunistic that there is demand from firms around the globe. billion in Q2 2012. With plans to open offices in New York and London next year, FlxOne says its major focus is to empower companies specialized in real-time advertising and help grow with them. Take action. billion, up from $8.7

Advertising 86

Advertising Platform Report Technology 86

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2 Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers.

Startup 194

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 194