TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

That’s likely due to a continually expanding toolkit that now boasts a customer relationship management system, efficient dispatching and routing, invoice management, mobile applications for field professionals and marketing analytics and reporting tools. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

These range from technology mainstays like Motorola to companies known for pushing the envelope like Tesla. With the Model S, Tesla has taken the next step forward — a car that is both appealing to the mainstream and seen as a technological innovation. Users can always see who’s at their door no matter where they are.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Based in Los Angeles, AppOnboard sees itself as one of a new breed of LA startup that’s steeping itself in the local ecosystem and trying to be one of the cornerstone’s for a new technology hub in the southern California region. Company co-founder Jonathan Zweig has already had one hit as a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2018

Los Angeles-based Lucidity , a developer of blockchain advertising technology, said this morning that it has named AdColony co-founder Nikao Yang as its Chief Operating Officer. AdColony develops mobile video advertising technology, and was acquired in 2014 for $350M by Operat Software. The company is led by CEO Sam Kim.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Urban Airship , a startup which develops mobile analytics and engagement software, said today that it has named two executives--both of whom have had prominent roles at Santa Barbara area technology companies. The company--based in Portland--said it named Scott Allen as its CFO, and Eric Holmen as its SVP of Worldwide Sales.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer OpenX announced that it exceeded $100M in net revenues in 2014, making the company the latest area company to pass the milestone. The company explained that mobile advertising, in particular, grew 100 percent, and is now 25 percent of the company''s inventory.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event attracted over 500 distinguished attendees from around the world in the digital media and technology industry including advertising, media, data, eCommerce, software, social and gaming. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

Everyone thinks of Northern California as the place to do anything technology related, but for unique power users and entertainment enthusiasts like me, you realized that entertainment--my first love--is in Southern California. Phoebe Scott: The really big thing we''d like to get going in 2014 is mobile. That''s not true now.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2015

Neil Clark Warren returned to the company, launching a major marketing initiative, revamping the service's design, adding mobile apps and more progressive design, and also revamping the back end of the service. eHarmony ha completed the first stage of the big refresh in Q4 of 2014. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2014

2014 SPEAKERS. Philippe Kahn, CEO, Fullpower Technologies / MotionX. Phil Easter, Director of Mobile Apps, American Airlines. Apps & Software Business Entrepreneurship Events Gadgets American Airlines glazed IndieGoGo Robert Scoble Technology Wearables' Just CLICK HERE TO CLAIM. Brian Ballard, CEO, APX Labs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It''s new technology, and a new way of utilizing unmanned systems such as drones and robotics. You use it in a very similar fashion to how you PCs and mobile devices use their operating systems, so you don''t have a stovepipe solution where a UAV can only be useful for one purpose. What''s the background of your team?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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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. Mr. Csathy’s career spans Internet, music, motion pictures/video, live entertainment, and technology.

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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 elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014. She is responsible for all aspects of business growth for the platform’s design and technology categories and has led many companies, including Misfit Wearables, Scanadu and Canonical, to secure funding on Indiegogo. Including wearables, gaming, smartphones, home and the car. Panel: 7 PM to 8:15pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception. 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. 2014 looks to be the year of emerging technologies (wearables, bitcoin, etc.)

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. For the kinds of investments we make, where there are always great engineers and technology behind it, if it ends up it's hard to get that to market, you can always sell it for 1x, or half your money, or 3x.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 7, 2015

For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startup community leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, app development, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. In the early 90’s, Steve helped DIRECTV launch the first commercial satellite TV service in the US and Latin American.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2014

” jokes), has instead turned into a genuine interest in what this company (and others like them) are doing to tackle very real public safety issues through the assistance of technology solutions. The post Breathometer | The Pocket-Sized Life Saver appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. Jason Reid: Giftagram is a mobile first company, that really redefines the way people gift. What is unique about our mobile app, is you can send a physical gift without actually having a physical address to send it to. How does Giftagram work? Can you talk about your LA office?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ 57 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2019, up 4 million since 2014.

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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. He then dove into a keynote Q&A with Dan Held , developer of recently acquired Zeroblock LLC.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

That dream, is a concept of the ultimate driving (and non-driving) experience, where cloud-based intelligence can be utilized to make transportation efficient, maximize road safety, and create technologically immersive driving experiences. Technology Takes the Wheel – Our Autonomous Driving Future. That much is obvious.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ 58 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2021, up 5 million since 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Even technology solutions with a large intuitive value, such as a cure for cancer, need hype for visibility, education, side-effect considerations and to avoid a scam label. Marketing acceptance, especially for new technologies, actually goes through several predictable stages, called the hype cycle , as outlined by Gartner research.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2015

When CNET released their list of the “ Best Wearables of 2014 ,” all nine of these gadgets are worn on the wrist, every single one of them, like that is the only part of our bodies available for wearable technology. But with a price tag of $1,500.00 (as of December 2014), I think I’ll hold off on this for now. 3-D gaming.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We were CONVINCED Dropcam (then Nest) wouldn’t mobilize a competing product quickly if it did sell? He created a technology version of Neighborhood Watch where people in your neighborhood could share suspicious footage of individuals around their house. Jamie is truly a visionary and a focused executioner. We weren’t sure.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The telecommunications firm says people in Los Angeles increasingly depend on mobile Internet connections for communication, entertainment and productivity at work, at home and everywhere. Toebben added that this investment by AT&T will help more people and businesses stay connected in today’s fast-moving technological world.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 24, 2014

With that, there remains an uncertain stigma about technology-enabled romance. He talks to us about his inspirations behind the product, what got him into the space from working in technology engineering (arguably an industry which doesn’t prioritize emotions), and what he has learned throughout the process.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

has a vision for developing the kind of technology that could some day be used to operate self-driving cars. The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures. meandered quite a bit as it sought to find a way to commercialize its technology, with substantial turnover among its ranks.

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