socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Ross had been the CFO of The Trade Desk since 2014, and was in charge during the company's IPO. Ventura-based The Trade Desk , the publicly traded provider of online ad-serving technology, says its Chief Financial Office, Paul Ross, is retiring. According to The Trade Desk, it has appointed Blake Grayson, a veteran of Amazon, as its new CFO.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

Entrepreneur 378

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 378

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The big push to update the company's systems--including what had been a old web, non mobile friendly UI--started four years ago, when the company pulled back founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren as CEO. The company said the refresh is the third phase of IT infrastructure plans it first announced in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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eHarmony Web Los Angeles Mobile 100

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%. million businesses in 2014. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

Startup 108

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 25, 2014

This innovation has eliminated billions of dollars of annual costs previously associated with creating and maintaining web-based businesses. 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of Amazon''s founding.

Tips 239

Tips Startup Customer Custom 239

Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. 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.

Incubator 108

Incubator Class Artificial Inteligence Startup 108

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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Artificial Inteligence Company Companies Course 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. Angels have been prolific for years now and they, too, rely on downstream money to cover their bets.

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Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014. The 200-400 invited guests will range from some of the web most influential Journalists, Bloggers, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram users, founders, VCs, CEOs, captains of industry, early adopters, PR execs and more. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 1558 10th st, Santa Monica, CA 90401.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/19/2014.

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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. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Venture Capital Santa Monica San Diego Coach 59

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas. billion in raised funds ( as reported by The Pritzker Group, Venture Capital and the LA Startup Report ) with a large chunk, from successfully funded consumer web companies ($273M).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

It’s a web app that pulls all the content from across your social networks and puts it in one place – your channel. In addition, Web 2.0 was a proliferation of user generated content which created the need for Web 3.0, We love Web 3.0. Our model has us at break-even in our second full year post launch (2014).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

Phoebe Scott: The really big thing we''d like to get going in 2014 is mobile. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started. You not only get to come up with creative solutions, but you have to be creative, budget-wise, which makes it exciting and really fun.

Entertainment 206

Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2014. The 400 invited guests will range from some of the web most influential Journalists, Bloggers, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram users, founders, VCs, CEOs, captains of industry, early adopters, PR execs and more. Workshops with industry thought leaders and a complimentary Food & Beverage mixer.

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Santa Monica Content Web Technology 83

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

The algorithm to manipulate music tempo based on steps didn’t come in until mid-2014, because it was really challenging to develop that software,” he said. The following year, the startup created an algorithm that automatically adjusts the rhythm and tempo of songs to match the user’s pace and heart rate. We’re manipulating.

Mobile 79

Mobile Software Startup Web 2.0 79

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Competition Screening Resource Startup 78

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. Setting Up 2014. Some rapid fire discussion points. Bitcoin specific job boards.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2015

The 2014 show hosted 135,000 attendees and boasted A-list guest speakers and performers like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Neil Young, Anthony Robbins, and Bruno Mars. 50% increase in web traffic which generated twice as many qualified leads to the vs. the average month in 2014. $1M 753% increase in leads from the previous year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Not to mention they’ve had exceptional product validation since opening their doors in April 2014 – Rodgers told me that they’ve been profitable since day one and have produced over 1,600 videos in 27 different states and driven CTRs ten times higher than the industry average.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. Other people have tried to put linear television on the Web. When we first launched in 2014, we found the average person might watch 1.2 Why it is you were successful, where they weren't?

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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Content Training Design Startup 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/20/2014. You are the ultimate critical success factor for your business. Are you ready to make it happen?

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app that mashes up existing technology derived from early social-networking applications. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/22/2014. Technology is the means, not the end.

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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. If you refuse to play by their rules, they have the power to easily find alternatives, and actively pull other potential customers away.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 103

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

While that was down from the 449 local startups created in 2014, it is the third consecutive year that more than 400 startups were formed here—a pace that is well beyond the 301 startups per year average over the previous eight years.

San Diego 92

San Diego Report High Tech Study 92

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. These two protocols are used to help encrypt the internet, web communications like email, and a variety of internet traffic.

Tool 85

Tool Networking Google Web 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily-funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and smartphone apps. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014. More complex and defensible businesses should highlight their organic drive to profitability and brand leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Personalize a simple web site. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Lyft’s pricey showing rivals Alibaba’s 2014 IPO as one of the largest deal sizes ever among US IPOs, according to. Lyft sold 30.8 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. The company was valued at $15.1

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Mobile Capital Report Marketing 57

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

In 2014, the budget grew to $4.7 The Sony hack of 2014 shows that even a typically impotent state like North Korea can inflict real damage if motivated to wage an attack. The expenditures reported by the Pentagon have seen continual increases in budgets to protect against cyber warfare attacks. In 2013, the Pentagon had a budget of $3.9

Report 64

Report Customer Custom Networking 64

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Four of the companies here were founded in 2014, another three were started in 2015, and two—CureMatch and Lymber—debuted earlier this year. With the benefit of all their insights, I winnowed the list to 12. Generally speaking, the companies selected this time are at an earlier stage than last year’s list.

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San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 105

Tech.Co

JUNE 14, 2024

IFund Women Grant She’s Connected by AT&T HerRise Micro-Grant The Girlboss Foundation Grant Enthuse Foundation Tory Burch Foundation Beyond Open Small Business Grant Her Village Grant 🔎 Want to browse the web privately? The non-profit has given out a total of $130,000 since the origin of its Foundation grant in 2014.

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Newsletter Entrepreneur News Design 129

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Brooks joined the division in 2014 after spending 23 years as an investment banker in Europe and the United States, but his strategic vision for the future of digital technology and computing is only now becoming manifest.

Capital 87

Capital San Diego USC Invest 87

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 14, 2014

We founded the company on the premise that we should build a game once and distribute it across all platforms: mobile, social, web. The Book of Life premiers on October 17, 2014. Yguada says, “SGN has been around for five years. Since then we have grown significantly.”. The Book of Life: Sugar Smash is available on iOS right now.

Entertainment 87

Entertainment Mobile Platform Startup 87