Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Industry reviews. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Deal screening.

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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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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

We talked with CEO Marcus Filipovich to learn more about the company and its product. For the first time, in a long time, traffic deaths and crashes are rising, due to drunk and drugged driving. How did the company and its technology come about? However, in 2014, it was time to restart that effort.

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Pasadena Angels Pasadena Technical Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly. It's all about leverage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. how to market our products and company. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Cho, a former sales manager for Nikon Instruments and Vala Sciences, founded Echo Labs in 2014.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review San Diego Software Review 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Silicon Valley, in a proverbial hornet’s nest of legal intrigue has been buzzing with one of the biggest (and possibly unsettling) displays of indian giving that the tech world has seen this year. Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then).

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". JG: Tell us a bit about Project Impact and 2014''s focus on innovation. Some are using technology in creative ways to customize and enhance the educational experience for students.

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Organization Startup Technical Review Invest 199

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Visions pan of endless cold emails and long days attending meetups and pitch nights while your operations/tech team grind away. 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. Introducing SeedInvest.

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Invest Startup Technical Review Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Many people don’t post about their experiences, but still routinely check first to see what others are saying about the brand and the product online. 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.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 103

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 founded a company and tried to persuade me to use his product (and invest). Help us review a few deals. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang.

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Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.

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Entrepreneur Sites Technical Review Social Media 101

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s a promotional video for a technology company. We talk tech, get a reminder of GumGum’s goals, and get some additional info on what they’re working hard on. Ophir gives us a look into what’s going on in the ad-tech industry. ” Wait, what? And they do what? In-picture advertisements?

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Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

The controversial CISA bill passed in late December, despite outcry from the tech world, now means large corporations will be able to share personal online data with government agencies. In many industries, business and enterprise customers usually pay more than everyday consumers for the business-class version of the same product.

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2015

User Experience is one of, if not the most important thing you need to focus on when building your product, app or website. Did you know that the Blackberry Passbook is actually selling and getting pretty good reviews? Let’s look at 2014, Apple and Android launched a new version of their phone and tablet OS.

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Google Design Software Review Education 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. Not having technical backgrounds ourselves, we were fortunate to have friends develop the app in exchange for equity. Is this due to the insurance policy, lack of customer base or just on ensuring timely pickup and delivery?).

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FAQ Startup Technical Review Santa Monica 98

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

A great diversity of frameworks means there are likely many options that provide high-performance while meeting your language and productivity requirements. 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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Framework Web Platform Web Development 80

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. It also got a pat on the back from Bill Gates. .

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Buzzfeed News Pricing IBM 59

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. By trying to appeal to everyone and adding features left, right and centre, you will actually dilute your message and could end up with a complex, bloated product. Here are two examples. Quote from John Wilshire, Artefact Cards 4.

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Startup Design Customer Custom 78

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2015

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) marks what new technology to see and expect at the beginning of each year. Bitcoin’s booth wasn’t a surprise to see at CES due to the huge noise it made in 2014 only seems fitting we find them here. They have a raffle going on every two hours for anyone to win one of their products.

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Software Review Entertainment Technical Review .Net 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

—Drug price news: While drug-purchasing agent CVS Health said it would bar several high-priced products from its menu of choices, including the leading prostate cancer treatment enzalutamide (Xtandi), it emerged that GSK is pricing gene therapy Strimvelis at $665,000 for a single dose, as STAT reports. . SMA has no approved treatments.

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News Thousand Oaks Pricing Report 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

According to a Harvard Business Review article, many people in history, famous for their inventions, such as Thomas Edison, were entrepreneurs who only later were remembered as inventors of the products they commercialized. Of course, it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business.

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Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

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%. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

If you don’t know, Ring offers home security products that started with a video doorbell, then video floodlights, outdoor stickup cams and now in-home security features that innovate in-home security alongside outside protection. We were CONVINCED Dropcam (then Nest) wouldn’t mobilize a competing product quickly if it did sell?

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

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. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109