TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Get beyond push messages to real customer engagement.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Quintype thinks that digital publishing – which relies on platforms such as wordpress, drupal and other CMS platforms – has been stuck in the dark ages. Here are four that are blazing trails right now: Quintype. RelinkLabs.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 14, 2024

Instead of offering one primary grant opportunity, the platform lets entrepreneurs search through an assortment of listings, and filter the results with various criteria such as deadlines and funding amounts. The non-profit has given out a total of $130,000 since the origin of its Foundation grant in 2014.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? The social media industrial complex is fraught with digital marketers and consultants who puff up their abilities and accomplishments. I tell my clients to be honest in their marketing, and in turn strive to walk the talk. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Social Media Media Technical Review Software Review 274

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. I moved over to work in software-as-a-service, at Cornerstone OnDemand, before its IPO. They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market. We took it to the market in January of 2015. What are you working on?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. We're both working with music industry insiders, as well as going and talking with services.

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Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

How big is this market? Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. They just pay $99 a month for each device for the service. What''s a unique part of what we do, that no other competitor does, is that we''re built as an open platform.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We knew there would be a need in the commercial market, and prepared for it by building a viable, commercial-off-the-shelf product. In 2004, we started providing the same kind of services to the government, mostly in defense and intelligence. We ended up positioning ourselves around 2008 to start developing and marketing the product.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We were building about 300 to 400 products a year for other people, including tons of apps, for tons of startups, and were managing tens of millions of marketing spend for those clients every month. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL). Memphis, TN).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. And we had to then build out new marketing materials and a website. And believe me they were vocal about it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The Summit featured panels and roundtable discussions that explored a variety of key topics to the global tech community ranging from digital content, marketing and social growth hacking to data analytics, software and investment trends for early stage companies. Hitesh Chawla, CEO. Silver Push. Impact Zone Award – Data & Analytics.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. We''ve got a really great group testing it, and we''re excited to add more service next year based on feedback.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. A snapshot of some of the projects mentioned: International remittance services.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a report by the National Student Clearinghouse only 18 percent of women graduated with a science degree in 2014. This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After a successful run through NYC-based Kaplan Edtech accelerator program (powered by Techstars), the team at MentorMob have been gearing up for a 2014 re-launch; same MentorMob name, but as Vince tells us, with a more community-based focus (don’t worry, a little more on that later). ” Carving a Path.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

With this in mind, we figured it would be a great opportunity to get a direct look from someone who’s been immersed in the field, and spoke to Chance Barnett, CEO of LA-local investment platform, Crowdfunder. In order to encompass both, they need to build a large platform. A Huge Risk for 2014? CrowdFundX.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. The platform works across messengers, starting with the ubiquitous messenger that exists in 3.2Bn devices: SMS. Early 30s: Got really serious about her career and started her company LaunchBit, an adtech platform for SaaS marketers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

” Last year, I was introduced to Karma’s company and services from a friend. Recently, we had a great opportunity to sit down and chat with Amanda Bensol, head BD/Marketing for Karma. That’s what drew me to them as I hopped on board for PR/marketing, and a little bit of sales and operations.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. However, before these dreams become a reality, what price will the online consumer expect to continue pay for private carrier service as our online dependence increases?

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Batch 15 is a group of scrappy start-ups that explores unusual markets, including postpartum care (Mahmee), underwater robots, airplane maintenance, and even crocheting. Fun Fact: Beeketing is named from Bi (beloved dog of Alice) and Marketing (our interest). Congrats to the Melissa Hanna and the rest of the Mahmee team! Fulfil.IO.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Take Watson , IBM’s artificial intelligence platform as an example: it has advanced significantly since it handily defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy game show four years ago. The market for connectivity solutions in vehicles is growing. But who’s the leader in the automotive market? Are you ready for it?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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