Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital Santa Monica San Diego Coach 59

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

At City Yoga the other day our instructor, Anthony Benenati began the class by reciting the 5 Yoga Sutras known as Kleshas or stains that prevent students from achieving enlightenment. The Kleshas, Anthony told the class, are: Ignorance, Ego, Attachment, Aversion and Fear of losing one’s sense of self. Raga – Attachment.

Web Design 58

Web Design Web Design Sites 58

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. But, do they really help? Because we are able to reach the right person, we can help get them that last mile to the retailer's store. That singular focus and dedication helped. It was really great.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

At City Yoga the other day our instructor, Anthony Benenati began the class by reciting the 5 Yoga Sutras known as Kleshas or stains that prevent students from achieving enlightenment. The Kleshas, Anthony told the class, are: Ignorance, Ego, Attachment, Aversion and Fear of losing one’s sense of self. Raga – Attachment.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Sites 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. Who are your other cofounders?

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

Google 216

Google Tool Email Sales 216

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5 ” It’s like having an online studio helping independent filmmakers and YouTubers get seen. ” She is redefining how business is taught and using her personal online platform apart from a designated channel platform to do so. .”

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

It made me so mad that I would dedicate 2 hours of my Sunday to publicizing it and use this platform to talk about it. But I’m also sending this to a couple of class-action lawyers. I have mostly taken over helping my dad with his finances. See this article talking about previous class action lawsuits.

Marketing 263

Marketing Startup Education Class 263

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

1) Mobile web. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) This incredible wave of capital-efficient web-based businesses launches is due in no small part to the lower cost of entry provided by cloud-based offerings.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.” Community builders.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Increasing the awareness and support of entrepreneurial development helps connect startups, builds confidence among entrepreneurs, and portrays our community as a great place to build a business. million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform. Can you tell us more about GFMEDC?

Screening 70

Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them.

Content 230

Content News Startup Research 230

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bruce, along with his wife Lynda, created a learning company from their garage, initially by holding in-person classes and later selling VHS tapes via mail order. Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous.

Sales 113

Sales Education Startup Class 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

Southern California 100

Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. Other deals. Big market.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon. It can literally deliver thousands and thousands of messages, tens of thousands per minute, to every form of platform. We go to the web, we go to feature phones, we go to smart phones, we go to land lines, iPads, Droids, and so on.

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Community Sponsors. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. Mobile Web America, Inc. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. The time has finally arrived! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Those deals require that a certain minimum people participate, and many also have a maximum number to take advantage of those limited time specials, which helps them to get more exposure and business, plus helps out the community. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He received a B.S.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Community Sponsors. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues. The leadership group is currently looking at options to tie in relevant coursework in entrepreneurship, business, and engineering, while also contemplating an alumni-only, mid-year class of startups. Comment help.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Having the right angels in a round that is cheap won’t help you succeed if your product or strategy sucks. The emails we all get on the AngelList get say something like, “New gaming platform invested in by Dave McClure, Chris Yeh and Jeff Clavier.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. Web analytics, pretty clear. Jen Robinson has been building web and mobile tech for more than 10 years. Steve currently manages Fandango’s web and mobile commerce platforms. For example? Online usage data, easy.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. Social is not a hype movement; it is part of the web’s DNA. Droid or iPhone?

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. How did it help you? Having helped create Fantasy World , I'm a big believer in the value of social and games.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150