socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? The future of work and education will not be the same, and it will be flexible.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Those are fundamentals that don't change.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 182

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Because overhead costs are not influenced by how much your business earns or grows, you need to track them separately and diligently. Variable cost percentage.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Fables of the reconstruction.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Southern California Tech Coast Angels 259

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. Online education. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. Far from it. 6SensorLabs.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2018

However, it remains fairly rare within the tech world. Intrigued, I conferred with Brett after the meeting and identified a number of advantages (some obvious, some less so) that a tech company can derive from a non-traditional fiscal year, especially one which does NOT end on the last month of a calendar quarter (i.e.,

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Technical Review Startup Resource Organization 89

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area.

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Even the most diligent investors are often surprised by apparently solid business startups that fail, while others succeed, despite the odds. Solutions that imply a paradigm shift always take longer to sell, and more money for marketing and education than expected. Use active listening to learn the most.

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Technical Review Startup Mentor Study 60

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The Pipeline Fellowship--founded by Natalia Oberti Noguera--says it has been running angel investing bootcamps for women, looking to active more female angel investors. My participation has been on the impact investing and education side, where I''ve been involved as a mentor. How does that investment process work?

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Angel Invest Mentor Technical Review 276

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you. Sir Richard Branson , who controls over 400 active companies, never appears to be even working. The technology is here to do most hard things effortlessly in business, but I find many business owners stuck in the past, refusing to change.

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Technical Review Coach Satisfaction Mentor 123

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. He was a really nice and personable guy who had deep domain knowledge in an industry that he’d worked in for 10 years that is in need of technological advancement.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 7, 2015

And everybody on the platform is background checked and reviewed on every session to that there’s a friendly, two sided peer review community. Trying to balance attending rigorous school, an active social life, and learning how to effectively run a business all at once is not for the faint of heart.

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Demand Technical Review Los Angeles Platform 128

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Jon Grishpul: We realized that although there are lots of other services, and in an age of technology and automation where so many things can be automated, there are still some industries like home renovation and construction where you need to have a personal approach. Doesn't that kind of approach make it difficult to scale? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model.

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The early embrace of live streaming allows businesses to position themselves as ahead of the trend in emerging technologies and provide their stakeholders with compelling content. Technological advancements have made live video fun to capture and easy to share with a global audience in just a couple clicks. Real Estate.

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Technical Review Social Media Content Education 40

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

We went public, got to 85 percent market share with its software, and from there, Frank and I applied that same technology to the mortgage space, when we started another company, BasePoint Analytics. You get alerted to thinks, so you need to review things as a very high rate. I spent a good portion of my career there.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. You can watch my interview with Naval below or on YouTube here: [link]. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses.

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Startup Software Review Summary Technical Review 273

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

This is the time to get creative, run pilot projects to look at ROI, and educate the whole team on objectives and activities. You need to allocate a few minutes a day, or every week, to researching via blogs and websites like Tech News World the latest recommendations and reviews. Implement metrics and analytics.

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Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. However, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to grow technology innovators from the ground up. Simply dubbed the Downtown Project , it’s spearheaded by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.

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Social Network Social Media Press Technical Review 111

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). We also have an activity center, when parents can download printables. What would Sesame Street look like, if it was created in the world of smartphones, tablets, and YouTube?

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Content Startup Screening Education 224

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

John Tabis: Our ten second elevator pitch, is we drop ship premium, super fresh flowers from an active volcano, and ship them directly to a consumer''s door for $40 flat. round changes things for us, and will let us invest in infrastructure, build our team, invest in media, and also invest in technology to better leverage our spend on media.

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Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010.

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2013

Luckily, Etymotic does suggest (for the daily users) to change your plugs out every 3-6 months due to loss of elasticity of the rubber eartip inserts. To shoot straight to the point, these technology packed earplugs are simply astonishing and unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. We even tried our hand at a few rounds of Marco Polo.

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Technical Review Activity Research Training 97

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

AUGUST 17, 2015

As memorable as one may think he or she is due to their strong work ethic, they may actually be lost among the others in a sea of co-workers. Education is vital. Too many business men and women believe that their education ends as soon as they land their first job out of college.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). We also have an activity center, when parents can download printables. What would Sesame Street look like, if it was created in the world of smartphones, tablets, and YouTube?

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Content Startup Screening Education 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

As an active angel investor and startup advisor, I’ve seen many of the same stumbling blocks repeated all too many times. If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. Confidently believe that you have no real competitors.

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Startup Training Entrepreneur Customer 59

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2015

According to Talent Development , 46% of remote employees say they feel isolated due to a lack of face-to-face contact with team members. Set goals for yourself throughout the workday that are reasonable and allow you to complete your work in time to do the evening activities with those who have a traditional 8 to 5 schedule.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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. The other trend is going to be in AI related tech entering the mainstream, from robotics to ease of information management.

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Due to Rapid City’s off-the-beaten-path location and small size — it’s tucked among the Great Plains, about 25 miles from Mount Rushmore, with a population of approximately 74,000 — the destination doesn’t typically enter the conversation for ICPC, which draws about 1,400 attendees. “The The last couple of years, it was in Warsaw, St.

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