Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. It’s not a “unicorn”—a business with a valuation of more than $1 billion—and it’s not even close.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The company is backed by Canopy Rivers, Finistere Ventures, and Middleland Capital. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Han Chen to better understand what the company is working on, and some of the complexity of getting their technology to market. We raised our first round in 2013. What is ZeaKal working on?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

He told TechZulu,”I figured the market could do with some alternatives.” I studied a Business Science with Honours in Marketing at University of Cape Town. Companies list jobs on Hiring Bounty and offer a total amount they would be willing to pay for hiring the successful candidate. What are your 2013 plans?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA. Tools available to food service companies include a branded mobile app, website integration with online ordering, and full menu ordering capability through Facebook. Additional marketing support is available for email lists, promotions and custom collateral.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Research shows that such insights are actually the result of hard prior work on the problem, usually followed by time to incubate in the subconscious mind as we connect threads, before the ideas pop out as new innovations. Many companies rely on a technical expert, or team of experts, to generate a stream of creative ideas. Breed myth.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The company’s original service still operates as LessonPaths.com – a platform for self-learning students and curators. By working on projects with early stage employees at companies like Facebook and Google, Kris began thinking of ways to use technology and the Internet as a medium to solve what he felt was a worldwide problem.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. For example, he explained a situation where his company could not meet payroll the next day and was about to go out of business. It was a success and the group made payroll. It was the morning of June 26th, 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. “The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The transaction is considered the largest public acquisition in Bitcoin history with both companies exhibiting impressive growth numbers since their respective beginnings. What is it Like to Raise Money for Bitcoin Companies? Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. ”(Actual words: Bull S**t).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 24, 2014

Mehrdad gives us some context on how long this idea was incubating. Even with a smaller percentage of mobile users, it’s market outside of the US was relatively large and made for good testing grounds. CR’s Android app was launched in Sept 2013 and ushered a big influx of users. What if there were a singles ring?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

As in, not one company (even the largest, Any.do ) holds over 1% market share in the mobile to do list space. Alex’s take: “If you look at the space, there’s a lot of companies that make productivity and task lists, but they don’t work. Many options and large scale turnovers by users. ” Huh?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Today these are only legal in the USA for non-equity rewards or pre-orders, but the JOBS Act will relax the accredited investor rule by early 2013. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

With the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the odds of success equally low, more and more entrepreneurs are starting multiple companies concurrently. With the current low capital requirements for smartphone and Internet apps, and high market volatility, it makes sense to spread the risk around as much as possible.

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