socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

San Diego-based Emotient , a developer of facial expression recognition software, has been acquired by Apple , Apple disclosed on Thursday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence San Diego Google Software Development 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

SweetLabs develops a platform which allows users to install apps on PCs, much as they are used to installing apps on iOS and Android, and currently has partnerships with PC OEMs like Lenovo, Toshiba, and Acer. SweetLabs is venture backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and Intel Capital. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 100

San Diego Platform Google Advertising 100

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Factual / Gil Elbaz - For the amount of success in his last startup, few people seem to know that Elbaz is behind Google's immensely successful Google AdSense product--originally known as Applied Semantics' AdSense. The firm has backing from such investors as Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and OReilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Southern California 228

Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more.

Southern California 254

Southern California Startup Sherman Oaks Venice 254

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. portfolios.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Venture Capital for Technology Innovators. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Vmware and more. Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). on April 24, 2009.

Rustic Canyon 100

Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. What is Ulevate?

Template 124

Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. For a couple of years, I was the head of a boutique software consulting firm based in El Segundo. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. The second firm, is Greenspring Associates, which is a fund of funds.

Startup 160

Startup El Segundo CTO Hire Outsource Development 160

Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

And if, like us, you spend the first six months of your startup under a rock, your social capital may begin to dry up. Companies such as Microsoft, Facebook and Google have all established employee referral programs that give employees monetary rewards for referring friends who get hired. Because smart people know other smart people.

Networking 83

Networking Startup Software Review Conference 83

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. People are so used to the Google mold. What is Scour? We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

Equity 40

Equity Services Startup Google 40

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

Equity 40

Equity Services Startup Google 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

There are many analogies here for software development. Raising Capital – The VC equivalent for musicians is getting signed by a major label. Reminds me of how the networks today announced they were blocking their video content from being shown on Google TV. He created demand.

Entrepreneur 356

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Email 356

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Accounting?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

You can google him, and you can see he's now CEO of Lucid Sight, another Southern California company, which is in VR and AR. Our main two investors are Troy Capital Partners, based here in LA as our lead, and London Venture Partners, out of London. We've experience that with Troy Capital and London Venture Partners.

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Google – Based on “googol,” a term devised by mathematicians to describe inconceivably large numbers that are smaller than infinity. The term is obtusely related to Google’s quest to catalog all of the world’s information, but wholly irrelevant from a user perspective.

Custom 100

Custom Customer Technical Review Software Review 100

Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. Why do unicorns get all the attention? Brian de Haaff wonders this sometimes, especially as compared to his own tech business, Aha.

Sales 100

Sales Software Services Startup 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit. We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Amazon sent North America into a frenzy after announcing plans to build a second headquarters (which it calls HQ2) outside of Seattle, bringing with it tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic development benefits. From Portland to Pittsburgh, it’s likely that every city in the U.S.

Develop 82

Develop Development Software Development San Diego 82

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2018

DoorDash has upped its valuation to $4 billion with a new $250 million financing round, five months after it raised $535 million to gain its “unicorn” status. The new $250 million funding round was co-led by Coatue Management and DST Global. CEO Tony Xu told Axios’ Dan Primack that the company hadn’t been actively seeking new financing.

Funding 59

Funding Activity Company Companies 59

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon sent cities across North America into a frenzy Thursday after announcing plans to build a second headquarters outside of Seattle, bringing with it tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic development benefits. [ Updated 4:26 p.m.

Commerce 76

Commerce Develop Development Software Development 76

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

Mobile 48

Mobile Outsource Development Artificial Inteligence Venture Capital 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. . You quit your 9-5 to build the next google or iBeer. Joshua Baer, Capital Factory. Having the.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2018

And then there were 20. city to make the finals.

San Diego 52

San Diego Software Development Incubator Web 52

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m a huge proponent of a university education (in fact, I’m on the alumni board for my alma mater, UCSD ), but I don’t think it’s for everybody, I don’t think every degree is practical and I don’t think we’re graduating enough software developers and designers. I plan to use Treehouse myself.

Invest 295

Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Joel doesn’t think he could design software for something in which he doesn’t have expertise. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285