socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The firm says it recently expanded into a number of verticals, including YouTube Channels, and Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers. The company, which is headed by Jed Simon, offers up short term credit lines to web publishers and other digital businesses who typically face 60 day or longer payment cycles. READ MORE>>.

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Customer Custom Funding Commerce 164

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2013

Things definitely look to be heating up in the software recruiting world, at least, if you judge the latest offer from a local startup to find local recruits for software developers.

Software 204

Software Software Development Los Angeles Mobile 204

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

Well, now those development studios can turn to Pragma , which is building the back-end toolkit for gaming companies so their developers can focus on what they do best — making games. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks.

Riot Games 135

Riot Games Develop Development Company 135

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

So far, I’ve covered how to decide which type of app you’re looking to create and how to use your market research to decide what features you want your app to have. The next phase in making a great app is the creation of solid User Stories. You will want to get relatively detailed with both your User Roles.

Marketing 84

Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Morphlabs , the developer of cloud-based infrastructure software, announced today that it has launched a new, Openstack-powered public cloud platform. The firm said the new software allows service providers to implement their own, public cloud software--and claims that it out-performs the giant in the market, Amazon Web Services.

Platform 157

Platform IBM IBM Web 157

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We at Dreamhammer had been working closely in the industry, and were aware of the potential near-term commercial applications of this technology. We knew there would be a need in the commercial market, and prepared for it by building a viable, commercial-off-the-shelf product. What''s the background of your team? That''s a key factor.

Startup 183

Startup Software Southern California Santa Monica 183

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

Pasadena-based Punchcard , the mobile application developer which develops loyalty programs for retailers, said today that it is now available nationwide, after a debut in Southern California earlier this year.

Idealab 154

Idealab Southern California Pasadena Mobile 154

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. We wanted to let people connect with even minor league teams, small market pro teams, college, everybody.

Mobile 162

Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Glass developers simply upload their applications and marketing collateral, the SGL team reviews it, and then places it on the directory. These companies are active on Exitround and are looking to connect with startups who are disrupting markets and changing the world.” Comprehensive App Directory.

Google 87

Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Tech.Co: Since launch, what was the most challenging part of gaining market traction? However, demonstrating that value to clinicians without a DEMO or a pilot is a challenging aspect of the market adoption. We know our product, market, and value proposition inside and out. Habra: Practice, practice, practice.

Competition 123

Competition Mobile Technical Review Startup 123

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization. Over the last few months, we''ve been coming out to the market much more aggressively.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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. We've just hired three new employees and are out there marketing our services and ready to grow.

Advertising 133

Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Mobile 233

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

Web Teams better come packed with people who have an arsenal of marketing and computing skills at their disposal. When it comes to marketing, they should have an understanding of search engine optimization (SEO). The Web Team should have a phenomenal understanding of usability, that is making sure the website is usable by end users.

Web 40

Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). That’s a good thing – it means there’s a market. 30% is the market opportunity.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Google, for example, recently took over a seven-story building right in the heart of Tech City and they're turning that into an application developer space for partner operations to come in and actually work with Google to come up with the next generation of technologies that are going to fuel the development of the web.

Organization 209

Organization Startup Google Invest 209

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. I have been lucky to have been around both parts of corporate IT and application development teams, and on the infrastructure side. It's been really great. READ MORE>>.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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 many years. This is not a get-rich-quick vehicle for consumers. Good-cause crowd funding. This model is a good thing, and has been around for years. Software crowd sourcing.

Funding 99

Funding Satisfaction Sites Equity 99

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

People also user our data for general market trending or academic research. Finally, for enterprise customers and application developers who need full access to our database, we have an API which allows you full access to data, which you can download and incorporate into your existing data sets.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

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. This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups. Proceed at your own peril.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

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. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

The more and more we looked into the idea, we saw there was a huge market for retailers. I saw a huge opportunity to claim a foothold in Europe, with a borderless marketplace like eBay, without the bidding system, and create a trans-European marketplace.

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

In this role, Alex was responsible for developing HostPro’s shared, dedicated and managed businesses with 430 employees in sales, marketing, engineering, and product development. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. But, very quickly, within the second round of financing, we started doing more and more presentations to financial markets, and getting more fundraising, and so forth.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Media 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches? READ MORE>>.

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

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. We had an advanced application development and innovation team. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI?

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Peter Yoder, my long-time film producer, wanted to get involved so we start up Rocksauce Studios to focus on making beautiful, distinctive applications which gave users what they wanted and had a chance to succeed in the market place. What are your thoughts on the direction from a design perspective of application development for 2012?

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. Gagnier has customized Gagnier Margossian LLP’s technology practice to broadly serve the needs of “startups.” Christina holds a B.A.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

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. They pronounced “The End of Software.&# It was typical Marc Benioff marketing hyperbole but it was very effective. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs. So who is using your software?

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. This was in 2001 when the market was tanking and all VCs were gun-shy. What is the Rubicon Project?

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs. So who is using your software?

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release. The massive shift in revenue models in recent years. Call it the Netflix effect.

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Software Review Content Sales 156

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In a world in which you have strong client applications for consuming “multiproduct streams&# then they gain relative power to any individual stream (e.g. As important as talking about the roadmap will be marketing the white space that they don’t plan to fill. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287