socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

OpenCandy / Darrius Thompson - Thompson and a team with roots at DivX is taking on the open source software recommendation market with OpenCandy, which helps software developers monetize their open source, and also connects advertisers with users of relevant products. Tags: entrepreneur startup venture capital investment repeat.

Southern California 228

Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. Speaking of NextMedium, can you tell us how that worked out, and how you ended up in venture capital?

Southern California 164

Southern California Venture Capital Advertising Entrepreneur 164

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 2 million equity round.

Equity 65

Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I also worked with a company working with online lead generation product get to production as CTO, and then for the past six years I was working at a company which just was sold to 1-800-DENTIST two months ago, where I was the founder and CTO of the company. How far is the product?

Startup 193

Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My resume includes things like videogames, online worlds, online web, from everything as an engineer to a producer to technical director, to CTO. Given your experience in the fast moving technology industry, were you nervous about joining the government--which is not exactly known for adopting technology very rapidly?

Los Angeles 203

Los Angeles Technology Startup Examples 203

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

That's a huge capital savings per employee. I actually spent a decade working in advertising and marketing. How did you go from marketing and advertising to a hardware startup? Plus, we've hired a new CTO and CRO to help grow the tech and business side. Those are some of the benefits of wearables. That's a huge step.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Other people on the LAGbook Team include Josh Osemwegie (our Chief Financial Officer), Nosa Ilegbinehi (our Chief Publicity Officer), and Emmanuel Alugo (our Chief Technology Officer). We also raised fund for CPC advertising, which doubled sign-ups. We’re a team of 5.

Social Network 100

Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. How will we.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." " Ummm.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." " Ummm.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Joe Kevin, our CTO, I've known for fifteen years, and worked for two years in early stage Internet companies. When we thought we had the right mix, we went to look for angel capital, and raised $1.3M in angel capital from the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other unaffiliated angels. It's a problem for ad networks.

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

I helped to grow that to a major player in ecommerce and online advertising, which is used to find and buy chips use in your iPhone, in your computer, and everything else today. One of the folks was the CTO of an investment bank in New York, who immediately saw what we did, and said he had a problem he wanted us to approach.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

and also to local advertisements. On the development side, my top go-to person is my KlickFu co-founder and CTO, Rod Morison , as well as the other developers who are contributing to the project. For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Shivani Siroya – CEO and Founder of InVenture.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly From your core first hires and building a board of advisors to raising angel and seed capital, team and community makes a world of difference.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. How will we.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. .

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40