SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors demand more than that. " In Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Startup Founder , I mentioned that before you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to be really clear on your purpose. The quality of the team, and overall financial health are equally important, as well as how your offering compares to competitors.

Metrics 264

Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Foursquare. -A

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. There are big companies being build around the mobile phone. On Demand enterprise, and consumer software-as-a-service is also very interesting to us.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Interesting. So what's going on with the fund nowadays?

Startup 185

Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. It was the late 90's, and everything was exploding, there were lots of IPOs and acquisitions, and it was a very exciting time to work in that space. They are getting more an dmore challenging to reach.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. Media is exploding.

Google 124

Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month). Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. FourSquare.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Location Aware – According to Dick Costolo’s statements at CES, up to 40% of all Tweets are sent via mobile devices, which is a hugely powerful asset for Twitter. Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. Again, this is made even more powerful by knowing your location.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307