Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As more and more tech startups launch vying for the attention of both consumers and investors, founders are figuring out which niche to serve and which industry to disrupt. Launching in 2012, Moreboats.com has been successful in reinventing the market of a mature boating industry.

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Technical Review Startup Sales Marketing 101

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Want to be an entrepreneur? Techpreneurs.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers. The city of Glendale, Calif.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. HelloSociety’s successful marketing and branding campaigns run on Pinterest for a reason.

Sales 101

Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. Wayne Slavin: We've been in the market for 18 months. and internationally. What's your background?

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Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Take a look below and give us a shout. Internships.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we have tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. Hear from key influencers and investors about trends shaping the connected TV market, mobile and web apps, iPad, content discovery and hybrid TV standards and opportunities for advertising and marketing campaigns.

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Social Media Newsletter Mobile Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” It also has free virtual due diligence sessions, investment dashboards, an advanced data room and virtual boardroom features.

Software Review 69

Software Review Platform Equity Tool 69

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

It is YouTube marketing at its best. Years before Hello Flo’s “The Camp Gyno” video existed, in 2009, Orabrush, a tongue cleaner company, was setting the precedent for what would be how to make a million dollars in ecommerce sales utilizing YouTube marketing. Here is a YouTube marketing case study they did. A great script.

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Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 12, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 -- Website Usability LIVE. Live Site Reviews to Improve User Experience. It is surprising to find out about what both web designers and marketers often miss, which are key ingredients of what your audience can see and not see on the website. YOU GOT THEM TO YOUR SITE, BUT THEN WHAT?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? How profitable is my product or service?

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 25, 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012 -- Getting Value Out of Intellectual Property in Foreign Countries. based approach to developing their intellectual property strategy, and overlook the need to develop a specific plan for addressing foreign markets. Companies often employ a U.S.-based When, where and how to file. See [link] (more)

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OCTANE Patents Marketing Develop 100

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology.

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Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 -- Managing Your Product/Service Lifecycle. Youre reviewing your launch plan and task assignments. Panel includes: Dr. Tony Karrer CEO/CTO of TechEmpower; Lisa Ames Director of Marketing Programs for PivotLink ; Eileen Licitra Product Strategy Consultant with Concentric Focus.

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Product Services TechEmpower Competition 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. likely relate to.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

Users of OpenTable can see restaurants with available tables, follow verified reviews to pick a restaurant, choose a menu and make a reservation online. The post Groupon Launches Groupon Reserve | Eats Into OpenTable’s Market appeared first on TechZulu. with more cities coming by year end.

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Marketing Entertainment Los Angeles Tool 61

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Before iROKOtv, Nollywood was almost completely closed to the Diaspora – lovers of Nollywood were always dependent on getting their hands on DVDs from family coming back from Nigeria, or from local market stalls – DVDs which may or may not have been pirated. There’s a wealth of talent out here, especially in the tech sector.

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Platform Help Customer Custom 82

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

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. What's the theme of your investments?

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. Let's start on the technology side--can you tell us about the technology, and its origins? It's very simple, from the technical perspective.

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5

Venture Capital 101

Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 101

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2012

The firm this week launched a new feature for the 2012 BMW 7 Series, dubbed the Dragon Drive! The voice technology enables a driver to dictate a phone call, an email or SMS, edit it or read (listen) and respond to emails and SMS texts received without the touch of a button or touch screen. Driver’s speech into email or SMS.

Email 61

Email Technical Review Software Review Mobile 61

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

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. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.

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Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

So this past October 2012, after years of investigative scientific research “ Electrified ” became a reality. We are in a different age now where technology is so important and I wanted to be connected with people along the way.” Being an entrepreneur is about making a commitment no matter how painfully difficult it is to keep it.

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Startup Technical Review Search Engine Optimization Los Angeles 104

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. October 5, 2012. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Greenspan, Founder and CEO of MakeItWork, a consumer facing, in-home tech support service. The launch would be larger, broader and was to be supported by marketing to Costco members. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. .

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RSS Technical Review Capital Email 170

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Despite widespread military use, drone aircraft are still an emerging technology. But the rapid advancement of drone technology is turning the public airspace into the new Panama Canal. The potential advantage would be rapid shipping and lower costs as the technology improves. A Future of Flying Robots. DHL Goes a Step Further.

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Technical Review Software Review Ideas Technology 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning.

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Press Startup Technical Review Email 97