Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Our first post over the holidays is from Howard Marks --who co-founded Activision--and recently founded startup accelerator StartEngine, and who has been very active in encouraging the technology industry in Los Angeles. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

San Diego-based SGI-DNA , a biotech company which is developing synthetic genomics and dna data storage technology, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in its Series A funding round. SGI-DNA spun out of San Diego's Synthetic Genomics in March, and was founded in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. An upside of this environment diversity is visibility into the ways various frameworks and platforms work with the myriad variables of cores, clock speed, and virtualization technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. Sam had different plans.

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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. This honor was presented to ShipHawk, described as the kayak.com of shipping, allowing users to ship anything, anywhere from one platform. “We

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

effective December 2, 2013 in a move to emphasize its commitment to Wearable Technology and the Internet of Wearable Things (IOWT). Redg Snodgrass co-founder Stained Glass Labs said the firm wants to focus on the world of Wearable Technology plus innovative consumer products beyond GLASS.

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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. We at Dreamhammer had been working closely in the industry, and were aware of the potential near-term commercial applications of this technology. What''s the background of your team? That''s a key factor. What''s the next big goal for you?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. Our technology is advanced enough that we also have big companies using our software to power their own massive network of displays, as well. Our software is an open platform. How big is this market?

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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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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. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Both are required to stay competitive. They are now actively recruited for many roles.

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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. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Both are required to stay competitive. They are now actively recruited for many roles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. In October of 2014, my wife and I were about to have our first child, and I am thinking to myself, I am going to take a month off and be a great dad.

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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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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Watson, who holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $4.5 What does that even mean?”

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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. What is it Like to Raise Money for Bitcoin Companies? Some rapid fire discussion points.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud platform to the world’s largest mining companies and government agencies monitoring major infrastructure, such as dams. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.

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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. Now Breathometer is poised to evolve into a “breath-based medical diagnosis platform that has the potential to reinvent point of care.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. When the glass is only.04%

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The platform sports a vetted network of film industry leaders that will make commercials for as low as $900, filmed in as little as two hours. “We’ve Tech-based companies immediately understand the need for an explainer video to showcase the rich features of their app or web platform.

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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 why I moved here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2014.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. We'll also be expanding our team, and investing more in technology.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. This crowdfunding platform has a goal to empower women-led startups to grow better businesses.

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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. Most startup founders are early adopters, so they love the latest and greatest technology. Assume that customers are all like you.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Where is it Based? Silicon Beach (Santa Monica).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. What is Fuel50?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. What is Beatshare?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

2013 was a huge year for startup investing to say the least, and with how things have been shaping up in Q1 of 2014, things are going to get a whole lot crazier. With notable peers like Angelist and Funder’s Club in the bay area – SeedInvest is looking to build itself as the leading platform on the East Coast. Final Words.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/03/2014.

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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). Kris the Visionary. ” Carving a Path.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That gave me the general landscape view and understanding of online technology businesses. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data. When we first launched in 2014, we found the average person might watch 1.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

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. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Both are required to stay competitive. They are now actively recruited for many roles.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Back in April 2014, researchers released a warning that sent ripples throughout both the business world and the internet community. Nogotofail has been designed with more than just a small selection of applications of platforms in mind. Part of the strength of nogotofail is its versatility.

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