socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. The first product is a platform, a technical recruitment engine.

Sites 240

Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The following online platforms are making it easy to give personal, memorable presents from anywhere in the world. They each contain a collection of activities and trips, the cheapest box set, which costs £59 ($72 USD), offers 180 activities and the most expensive, at £199 ($244 USD), has over 340 activities. SendItLater.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? dot-com bonanza. So in a way it’s self selecting.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. In fact, ecommerce website builders and platforms have become seriously big business over the last few years. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike, as an endpoint protection and response platform, uses next-generation antivirus software, scans for behavioral indicators of malicious activity, and deploys other threat detection measures to prevent cyberattacks and mitigate harms when they occur.

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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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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Technical Review 115

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2013

Irvine-based CrowdStrike , the developer of security software which was founded by former McAfee CTO George Kurtz, has debuted its technology, saying that it has created a platform which is aimed at stopping security attacks and protecting users'' intellectual property.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. The whole Journey app building experience takes place inside your web browser, so there’s no software to install. Journey is especially useful for companies that want to streamline their internal business processes.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Right now, we're working on integrating more data from around the web, and our goal is to really aggregate and curate the information out there. In that sense, we're very independent of Best Buy, because it's all about aggregation and curating information, to become the leading web and mobile digital player in terms of information.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. If a creator or celebrity were to sell personalized videos on Cameo , they’d lose 25% to the platform. Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Those channels still exist today, and get around 200 million views a month--we ended up becoming one of the largest movie networks for video on the web. We saw that fan activity, and were excited about it, and thought it was really cool. But, more often than not, they''re doing different kinds of activities around a brand.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s a large part of why he decided to create LawMaker.io , which bills itself as a revolutionary platform that gives those in the U.S. Touting itself as a “free lobby for the lobbyless,” Thakkar said its a platform that could very much change the face of U.S. ” Lawmaker.io

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

So, what we do, is bring all of that data together into a unified, comprehensive solution, so they can manage all of that activity and data in one place. All of the activity we're monitoring, and ways we're engaging and allowing clients to engage with consumers are 100 percent through their smart phone.

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, they let me start StockTwits.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

Justin Wu: Sidevision is a video e-commerce platform which allows brands and content providers to better monetize their videos with interactive apps. Justin Wu: We integrate with any video platform, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Kaltura, and we''re built on top of an API. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator.

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Commerce Content Downey Media 153

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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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? Jerry Jao: Retention Science is a Big Data and e-commerce platform, where we help engage customers. We spent the last few months on efforts around our back-end algorithm, as our platform is very mathematical. What is Retention Science?

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Commerce Platform Southern California Customer 196

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2011

DueToDos is a web based business productivity platform that seeks to save you time and increase efficiency whether you’re solo or on a team. Developed one year ago, by cofounder Chase Rief, who came up with the idea for the platform when he was managing 15 employees stashed in different corners of the world.

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Email Platform Web Summary 102

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. The web site caters only to people in the green space. Let's start with an overview of Clean Green Guy. What is the site all about? Coming into the U.S.,

Southern California 193

Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2012

There are things like the NCAA, which has not been showing up in fantasy because there was lack of a platform to allow that. We built a social network around that, with activity feeds and stuff like that, and which allows you to share activity through the leagues, Twitter, and Facebook. How does the site work for a user?

Sites 237

Sites Startup Activity Ideas 237

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content.

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today.

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Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2012

We sat down earlier this month to talk with Josh Yguado , President of SGN (www.sgn.com), to learn more about the importance of being nimble in the game market, the company's platform, and hear more about its recent move into real money gaming. We've had over 250 million installs, and have around 35 million active monthly users.

Platform 147

Platform Mobile Startup Develop 147

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The day will include an introduction to Javascipt, Jquery, Knockout JS, HTML5/CSS – Responsive web design, Nodejs, Javascript Patterns and many more!! The following are a few of the expert speakers you will learn from: Nathan Totten , a technical evangelist at Microsoft specializing in Windows Azure, web development, and Node.js.

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JavaScript Long Beach Java .Net 93

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 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I think people are often confused, because although there are very few, large scale Fortune 1000 companies, there is an enormous economy here fueled by entrepreneurial activity. In 2004, there was just rudimentary usage of web sites, and now, we've got cloud based, software-as-a-service. You are self funded too, we recall.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255