socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. We at Dreamhammer had been working closely in the industry, and were aware of the potential near-term commercial applications of this technology. What''s Dreamhammer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This new model (now only legal in the UK) will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to get an ownership position in early startups. People can invest (donate) money to a project which has good moral/ethical value. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Pre-order crowd funding.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). What is the Tech City Investment Organization?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Equity investing is very risky, but huge returns are possible if you pick the next Facebook, but failure means your entire investment is lost. In the U.S.,

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Habra: Mobile Therapy spent the majority of the time leading up to the initial pitch competition perfecting our platform and ensuring that both the application and the Web dashboard is 100 percent rooted in real science. We spent our first year designing the product with our world-renowned science team.

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Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups. As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for five years. Pre-order crowd funding.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

If you're an NCAA fan, and you've loaded the app for your favorite team, there's a high likelyhood that the app is actually the product of El Segundo-based Hopscotch (www.gohopscotch.com). Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. We want them to be able to engage their fans and their avid fan base.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. Jed Simon: We have a tech enabled product which accelerates payment, not unlike a traditional factor or AR lender.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. Are you now deploying your products in applications? As of today, anyone can now sign on as a developer, and we're announcing the release of our marketplace. Evan Rifkin: We opened in December with our closed beta.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I can’t be more of a FanBay of their products. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. But wait, aren’t you the guy who invested in Ad.ly, the in-stream advertising company? No, I don’t think so.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We built the website The Numbers, which tracks daily and weekly box office grosses and DVD sales, and we also provider consulting services--primarily to independent filmmakers, or anybody in the industry who needs to get financial data in order to support their business plan or to make investment decisions.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store. We had an advanced application development and innovation team.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Go Boulder! File sharing?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

This presents an opportunity for people, businesses, and brands who have products in the real world and in retail storefronts, packaging, and advertisements, allowing people to get additional information from what they are already seeing out there. Was it difficult going from print to mobile application development?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

As we learned from our investment in Overture and the subsequent success of Google, “intent-based&# advertising is enormously powerful. A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful. All of them are really sharp on product and market.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Zondigo, Inc.

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