TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

It''s up 30 to 40 percent, and we had 2 million visits in May, all organic. Evan Britton: There are two things we''ve done with FamousBirthdays that has fueld our organic growth. So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome. Six months ago we only had 650,000 visitors. Our revenue is solid.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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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”. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. 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 ).

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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.

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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. Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

The emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain. Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. Finding business agility in the cloud. CTO at SOA Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. It’s a human being inside the buying organization who has trusted you. I didn’t sleep much back then. And so it goes again. We have a little more to go until the finish line.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. So, I've been hiring people and creating an organization around that. I don't know if you've read my book, but I started my career writing trading systems in a software company.

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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.

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Education Web 2.0 Course Platform 63

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Event organizers Daniel Gross, Regional President of Southern California for the Kairos Society, and Zachary Goodman, President of the USC Entrepreneur Club, kicked off the event by introducing their respective organizations as well as their future plans to host other events. It was the morning of June 26th, 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

But subsequent statistics have also shown that “online coupon access [has] increased 92 percent and redemption of Internet deals [has] leapt up 360 percent;” with more growth predicted in 2012. However, more than 40 percent of the organizations said that they wouldn’t run a Groupon offer again.”. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. When you think about a brand you need to create a name that will represent the kind of organization or community you want to build. Don’t you think? And I think it has mostly resonated. In Summary.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I first got the idea on a cold night during the winter of 2012 in San Francisco when I walked passed a homeless woman sleeping on the street. Human service organizations encounter challenges on a daily basis when it comes to finding flexible resources for their clients. HandUp was an opportunity to combine both.

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Platform Startup Tips Help 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. A member of the Young Presidents Organization YPO – since 2003.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We write and create our own content for the game. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Thousands of organizations have turned to TriNet for human resources, benefits, payroll, workers’ compensation, and strategic human capital services. Event Details.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Idea Mensch.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

The Digital Detox Retreat September 13-16, 2012. As technologists living online in real time all the time, it is easy to lose perspective on life. A new retreat called “The Digital Detox” offers a unique solution to recharge and reconnect by surrendering technology for a few days in a magical setting with like-minded fellows.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. But as I pointed out on the show, look deeper at the impact of social media as a tool to organize crowds, hold public debates and spread information in a decentralized way.

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