socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. In that world, the risk of security holes is huge. What is Signal Sciences?

Web 138

Web Startup Southern California Software 138

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. But, I found out in reality, it's really tough to find classes or lessons, for a variety of issues. I literally saw the real pain point when I moved to Los Angeles a few years ago.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

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

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

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. See this article talking about previous class action lawsuits. I hope you’re OK with that.

Marketing 263

Marketing Startup Education Class 263

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.

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Their "Drive To" product provides a web-based navigator, which require no download, and we saw that there were lots of things we could do together to target the right person, at the right time, using a web-based GPS. We had to push, and believe in building our product and company, and making it world class. It was really great.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. You have always been able to run HA (high available) applications on top of Eucalyptus, but now the cloud platform itself is actually HA.”.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2019

According to the company, the new service lets users join live-streamed fitness classes, interact with favorite trainers, access on-demand workouts, and more. a month, with additional live classes available for purchase. The service is available on iOS, Android and the web, with other platforms on the company's roadmap.

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Services Class Demand Coach 113

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. We've been in discussions with news organizations to use the platform, including with large organizations and journalism sites. It ran in April of 2008.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

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. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

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

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. It was an investment management class. We’ll re-compare notes then.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Colony Logic is a Los Angeles-based platform technology company that simplifies the overly complex world of profitably selling and supporting Digital products. Our platform combines Android, iOS, and web technologies to deliver a best in breed solution to our clients. Business Development Director, Colony Logic - Los Angeles.

SoCalTech 124

SoCalTech SaaS Los Angeles Platform 124

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. Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy.

Content 230

Content News Startup Research 230

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

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. Erik Caso: Enterprises like to use things like Amazon Web Services. And how do you make sure you can access those files from anywhere?

Screening 230

Screening Resource Services Mobile 230

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Building on top of platforms. What does Joel think about building applications on the Twitter platform?

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel. What exactly is FatCloud?

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized.

Startup 162

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 162

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. 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. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

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

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. Let's talk about your background, and also how this related to CheapCheapCheat?

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

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

Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. We’re basically an Expedia for fitness and wellness studios,” Lymber co-founder and CEO Doug Hecht told me by telephone after the Mindbody deal closed.

San Diego 75

San Diego Class Mobile Platform 75

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5 ” She is redefining how business is taught and using her personal online platform apart from a designated channel platform to do so. .” The staff is very helpful and provides great customer service too. Same with CreatorUp.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

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

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ). But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. And of course you have Hollywood.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

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. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I originally wrote the business plan for AdventureLink out of school in 1994, for a business class I took. I developed one of the first booking engines for Sabre's web reservation system, in 1996. Kelly Tompkins: All of the have web sites, and all have their trips published on the web, which is fantastic.

Web 100

Web Altadena Sites Activity 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2015

You can start a new web site business on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. It’s a higher calling than one more social media platform. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 100

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2014

If core audiences on core platforms are asking why they should care, there is a problem. Read More Reactions Around The Web: VGX all the awkward moments. One solution to this is to make the top YouTubers the voting class. ” “Who is that?” ” “Why should we care about these people?”

Technical Review 92

Technical Review Entertainment Content Class 92