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. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 12, 2015

There’s a company in LA, Qtee.com , which specializes in taking custom clothing to an entirely new level with their web platform. Any web company these days is at its core a technology company, and we think it’s this technology that differentiates us from our competitors,” says Kristin Swanson, founder of Qtee. Sports Brat.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

The team at Native Ads hope that they can help all websites remove ‘disruptive display ads’ with its innovative platform. StreamSpread helps publishers create portals on their web pages that can then be used to publish tailored digital advertisements. Nativo works with 350 web-publishers, including the likes of Time Inc.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems. . <Note: The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely !

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. Bill Curtis: It's by far the most exciting platform right now. Why podcasting?

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Were part of the uCast Global video highway, which is our way of illustrating how content is being driven locally, regionally, and globally, using our platform, but also technology we have integrated and continue to integrate with our partners. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Here are four new strategies that every entrepreneur must now include in their marketing platforms to survive and thrive in this digital and highly mobile age, ranked by effort and cost on your part: Frequent new content on the web, social media and via mobile. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/19/2015.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. Not only is it a software-a-service to help organizations run their businesses more efficiently and effectively, but it also allows partners, such as third party developers, tap into the platform to give the best of breed software to nonprofit organizations.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

That’s roughly the same investment pace as 2015, when Intel Capital invested a total of $514 million in 63 new companies and 79 follow-on deals. —Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous. In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com for $1.5 In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. Data Security Concerns Dominate.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Financial terms were not disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday by GoFundMe.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 30, 2016

Taking into consideration that total global card volume for 2015 weighed in at almost $29 trillion, it’s easy to see how billions of dollars are lost globally to card fraud each year. A new ecommerce platform that assists businesses to process payments, SecurionPay supports 23 languages and more than 160 currencies.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck.

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