TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. Charli Cohen : a “next-gen” streetwear fashion brand. ”

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Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

Berkonomics

APRIL 1, 2021

We are not always smart about the market or the product. Well, the good news is that great teams are not bound by their original product or marketing plan. My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. My story of a great pivot.

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Resource Research Class News 156

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Are you the sort of person who relies on your friends to help you figure out the best places to explore on the web? That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. I'm a person that loves discovering new stuff on the web.

USC 252

USC Startup Web Ideas 252

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Demonstrate a minimum viable product (MVP). Optimize your web history and presence. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver.

Marketing 105

Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas 105

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. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Who are its founders? What inspired you? How does it work?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

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. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. Optimize existing product efficiency, safety, and reliability.

Startup 162

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 162

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Demonstrate a minimum viable product (MVP). Optimize your web history and presence. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver.

Search Engine Optimization 174

Search Engine Optimization Ideas Startup Custom 174

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Rather, these were the words given in response to the opening question to a panel of product managers to “describe their occupation” in 3 words or less, + an additional word on what their biggest challenge was. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. Jen Robinson , Head of Product Manager, Bigframe.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

We are not always smart about the market or the product. Great teams are not bound by their original product or marketing plan. My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. Plans don’t often work as devised.

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Class Resource Email Examples 176

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

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Turn on your phone and look at the productivity folder. You’ll be more productive within three weeks time. We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. “ I was taking a class at Michigan about lean startups; it was a great environment that I treated like an idea marketplace.

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Four Steps was essentially my class notes. Preaching What You Live. Enter Eric Ries .

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

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. Product Lead, GridMeNow - Aliso Viejo. Our platform combines Android, iOS, and web technologies to deliver a best in breed solution to our clients.

SoCalTech 124

SoCalTech SaaS Los Angeles Platform 124

Inverted Software

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

From code, to web and application servers, databases and frameworks. Here are some of the most common issues our DevOps have encountered: Deployment of development configuration to production. 3rd party applications installed on a production serve r. Web serving source files. Directory listing enabled. Conclusion.

PHP 40

PHP Web Framework Examples 40

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

I don’t even think digital assets [are] an asset class. I think it’s a technology that is now wrapping all asset classes,” Dorman said. In tradfi, investors can specialize based on products (e.g. debt, equity, derivatives) or sectors (e.g., industrials, retail, real estate).

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Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. That's how we really started.

Startup 242

Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The most typical use case is a scalable web service. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point. With generation three of Eucalyptus, we are adding high availability into the actual product.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

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.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com). Technology.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 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 licensed our product to USC Annenberg as a teaching tool in the classroom. It ran in April of 2008. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS. Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel. You can both export between our product, FatDB, and Microsoft SQL server, and we also support two-way, real time synchornizing of data.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more. Social mobile web.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

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

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. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product.

Startup 100

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2018

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. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. Optimize existing product efficiency, safety, and reliability.

Resource 66

Resource Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 66

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site. From a product standpoint, that has not been an issue. That's what SciVee is focused on.

Journal 124

Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

When Jacob Salamon and Jared Bauer met each other freshman year at UT-Austin, they were sitting in an astronomy class. Bauer thought all the way back to astronomy class and said that maybe the day had come for them to finally make movies together. After all, Bauer was already in Los Angeles working on a show for Chris Rock Productions.

Education 92

Education Los Angeles Class Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Demonstrate a minimum viable product (MVP). Optimize your web history and presence. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver.

Startup 101

Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas Custom 101

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

functional workgroups vs. product workgroups). 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! what is the difference between a “pivot” or a “double dribble” (changing your business completely)?

Social Media 301

Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 9, 2013

First, lets talk about the core products that makes Best Buy what it is. Sadly, these products are, well, boring. I’d be sure to have all of the hottest products people buy at Amazon and CDW available in store at the lowest price possible and I’d promote that very fact. Computers and related electronics.

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Pricing Course Technology Screening 229