SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 25, 2012

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 -- How to Build Winning Teams. Kaplan, MBA, SPHR from Mark Kamin and Associates -Powerful teams are essential to productivity and accomplishment in business. Yet very often businesses and organizations have formal groups and departments, but powerful teams are missing. Keynote Speaker is Alexandra L.

Organization 113

Organization Product 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 25, 2012

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 -- How to Build a Winning Team. Powerful teams are essential to productivity and accomplishment in business. Yet very often businesses and organizations have formal groups and departments, but powerful teams are missing. Our Keynote Speaker is Alexandra L. Kaplan, MBA, SPHR, Mark Kamin and Associates.

Organization 113

Organization Product 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

While everyone developed their products throughout the day, SWLA teams briefly said hi to Marc Nager (StartupWeekend CEO) during a quick Skype call who was down in New Zealand facilitating Startup Weekend. As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Coffee is for closers!” What a SWLA.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

where he’d retired after selling his online food delivery business GrubCanada to JustEat, the European tech-enabled delivery giant, back in 2012. For him, the conundrum for consumers looking to buy cannabis products was similar to the dilemma in-home diners faced when choosing what to eat. .”

Services 259

Services Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles 259

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

Glendale 271

Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab). Organic traffic. All Time Rank.

Newsletter 205

Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. Plus, our In-App Banner Apps product has also been scaling very fast. Asher Delug: We''ve been very product focused, and focused on innovation since inception. There are lots of U.S.

Startup 196

Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

It’s a reminder that unless your prospect has a need to solve a problem they are not going to buy a product. Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” The goal is to get the customer speaking about their organization. That is still “pain.”

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012. These companies were each offering a product or platform that really addressed one of those areas. You''re a very big organization, where does this effort fit in and what piece of the studio are those startups touching? What''s your big goal for the program?

Startup 159

Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

I just finished a new book by Christoph Lueneburger, “ A Culture Of Purpose ,” which details how to build this new culture, and why it is becoming more instrumental in bringing about success, as well as sustainability, in organizations as diverse as Unilever and Walmart. They also tend to stay longer with the organization, reducing costs.

Startup 91

Startup Organization Pricing Customer 91

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2012

This week at CES we’ve become witness to multiple celebrity endorsed products. As 2012 gets underway, The House of Marley, a collection of premium quality, earth friendly personal audio products, is making way for new designs and products to enjoy the music that moves you. The latest being The House of Marley.

Social Media 68

Social Media Product Design Organization 68

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We''ve created a really simple product, which is simple to deploy, simple to administer, looks and feels like SMS, and works like an app over the top, and has al the features and capabilities to unlock lots of utility to someone. We''ll probably finish this year with a subscriber base which has increased about 7x to 8x from the end of 2012.

Yammer 229

Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. They have production facilities in Mexico where they have been creating lower-cost video for traditional TV for many years and they pivoted this facility to producing for YouTube.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

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 Beres , VP of Product Management, Community, and Developer Evangeleism art eh VP of Product Management, Community and Evangelism.

JavaScript 93

JavaScript Long Beach Java .Net 93

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

DotSpots was organized around distributed objects, and organizing ths thoughts of people all over the world, in all the newspapers, and organizing the semantic blocks of information around those thoughts. That was between 2010 and 2012. One, is you need to simplify the product. So, that didn't scale well.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

DotSpots was organized around distributed objects, and organizing ths thoughts of people all over the world, in all the newspapers, and organizing the semantic blocks of information around those thoughts. That was between 2010 and 2012. One, is you need to simplify the product. So, that didn't scale well.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product. This will prove your product is worth building to you and to the developer.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Teams that hang out together work more productively in difficult situations. Dave Tisch was kind enough to organize sessions for me in NY (little did I know in advance they would be filming it for a reality TV show on Bloomberg where I was cast as Simon Cowell ).

Startup 319

Startup Organization Entrepreneur Blogging 319

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s established itself as a leading source of organic sales referrals and we find creative ways for brands to help keep it that way while seeing incredible results as far as significantly increased site visits, sales and brand awareness. HelloSociety chose Pinterest because it is a referral powerhouse brands can’t ignore.

Sales 101

Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Nurture those links into other sites, and network to the max in relevant business organizations and trade shows.

Platform 105

Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

That was 2012. Today, Grokker.com, the community driven content network offering has 3500 plus high quality, expert-led videos for yoga, fitness and cooking too make it easy and enjoyable for enthusiasts to discover valuable content and seamlessly organize and share choice topics, experts and opinions with a larger like-minded community.

Help 87

Help Content Activity Networking 87

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 Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation.

Venture Capital 101

Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 101

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

By the end of 2012, Rob had done a really great job of identifying the opportunity, and being a visionary on how social, local, and mobile would change how consumers engaged with brands. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. How did you get involved with MomentFeed?

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As Look around.

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. But from my perspective in really helping entrepreneurs, both fall short on several counts: Focus too much on the product, not enough on the business model.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

Venture Capital 108

Venture Capital Angel Satisfaction Equity 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes.

Media 320

Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. If I look at this organization, I'd say we're building something which will have lots more long term value than at FrontBridge, so along those same lines, I felt I needed to bring in a team to run it. Steve Jillings: We have really big stuff coming in 2012.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. 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

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. But from my perspective in really helping entrepreneurs, both fall short on several counts: Focus too much on the product, not enough on the business model.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

It's software-as-a-service based, and we have organizations worldwide, from very small companies, to 100 employees and up, to Fortune 500 companies, across a wide variety of industries. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Tucker Kain: In 2012, when the current ownership group bought the Dodgers, the group they pulled together was pretty heavily investment focused. What we realized, is that using a platform like the Dodgers to validate those products, and at the same time, solve some of our own problems, made a lot of sense.

Startup 100

Startup Invest Resource Entertainment 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The loss in productivity involved in transitioning a struggling employee out an organization, coupled with the time required to conduct a subsequent job search, can cripple a small company’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives. This phenomenal success led to a ravenous need to increase their headcount. Death Of The Resume.

SaaS 209

SaaS Tool Startup Screening 209

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I mean they just had their formal product launch in April 2012 and was a runner-up in NBC’s Education Nation Innovation Challenge in October 2012, which hails in comparison to the recent contractual partnerships they are forming with education pillars. Apply to conference Startup Alley’s and competitions.

Education 63

Education Web 2.0 Course Platform 63