TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company has already launched a beta version of its streaming service, Ficto , and yesterday announced a host of new shows that will appear on the app later this year. Both Quibi and Ficto see short form as a way to break through with a new kind of storytelling built for mobile media first.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. Of course you now book when you want and even choose your restaurant based on availability at the time / day you want and you can book on your mobile phone at 2am or 8pm. And this week they unveiled V1 of the MyTime Mobile app.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last week, Savings.com , the online coupon site based in Los Angeles, made a big move into the world of grocery store coupons, from its existing business providing coupon codes and deals for the online world. I''m pulling up the app right now, and it says that Albertson''s here in Los Angeles has Hunt''s Ketchup, 24 oz.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Where are we today? Why is this?

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area? What's the idea behind Maple Media?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

“If big companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition,” Sirinivasan writes. The reason is that if there is less M&A due to legal uncertainty, there is a reduced incentive for angels & VCs to fund those startups in the first place.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Tony: I personally am torn by choices around Networking Events in Los Angeles – you can go to something almost every night. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. I run a lot.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. It’s not you.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Scott Lahman is co-founder of Los Angeles-based GOGII (www.gogii.com), the developer of group text messaging application textPlus. Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. Wander is one-such service providing high speed wireless internet in Los Angeles. Sick of your ISP?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. .” ” The approach was clever and novel. Upfront Ventures'

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. Al Eisaian: IconApps is built around simplifying people's lives through mobile technology. Al Eisaian: It's been angel funded so far. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. Plus, show my you can write! I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. What is the timeframe?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g.,

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Troy Miles , A designer and developer of software since 1979 writing games in assembly and C.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

The company based out of the Los Angeles area is very heavily focus towards showing support towards women. It’s similar to American Idol , but they judge more on your song writing ability rather than your ability to cover other songs. We ran contests where selected winners won their own custom jingle write by Jes. Cross Promote.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. We write and create our own content for the game. Gold Sponsor. .

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We've taken matchmaking onto a mobile application, as a modern matchmaking company. As I was driving home from that meeting, I decided to work from there, and ended up writing a business plan and fundraising from family and friends. How did you start the company? Before this, I had an event planning company.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Neal Roche: I worked the trail of angel investors around Southern California. They're all chasing the next mobile app or Facebook app. Instead, I found some early, lead investors from the Pasadena Angels, who connected me with the Tech Coast Angels and Maverick Angels.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). We're making it simpler to publish that content to any CMS, to any mobile app, to any social platform, really easily. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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Steve Reich

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The company in question built mobile apps for a particular sport, and had 3 million downloads with nearly 2 million active users. Angel investors, some of whom I had personally witnessed calmly losing six figures on failed ventures, were seriously annoyed. If you didn’t believe that, you couldn’t be a founder or angel investor.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

That's the idea behind Focus@Will (www.focusatwill.com), a new Los Angeles music startup headed by Will Henshall. Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. Explain what Focus@will is all about? READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Late last year, there were more high-quality, seed-stage startups in New York than there was an Angel community to support them.”. 3) If you were writing your book Pitching Hacks today, how would your advice differ ? Capital is very mobile, but capitalists are not. The whole environment has changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman. What is your mobile strategy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

Get some famous angel or seed money. So why not announce big, hairy audacious goals on recruiting the best mobile talent with sign-on bonuses and retention plans? What kind of message does that send to the party faithful who slave away loyally to hit targets for BigCo? I’ll tell you what is says. Go do a startup. Woo the press.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. They are also often looking for more cost effective ways to advertise to mobile users. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. Mobile, social and video are changing consumer behavior and advertising as we know it.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Jenna can write a recommendation on Andy’s profile or send an email to friends recommending Andy, one of his workout plans or the fitness event she’s registered for. We closed an angel round of funding in March for $415,000, 90% of which came from investors in Chicago. Have you raised any funding yet?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

For this morning's interview, we sat down with Marlon Nichols , co-founder and Managing Partner of Los Angeles-based Cross Culture Ventures (crossculturevc.com). They're also big influencers in this new wave of social media, with mobile and the internet.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, Los Angeles-based Postcard On The Run (www.postcardontherun.com) is trying to recapture that sense of value of physical photographs, with its new service, which turns digital photos into postcards. Unlike the past, when photos were treasured and shown off to friends and family, it seems like photos are almost disposable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. Am I allowed to say this?

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