socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book? It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. ” Me?

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

They can find additional grants from large philanthropic directories, and your favorite alma mater site. Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing. In the U.S. Of course, nothing is really free in the business world. Professors get grants for research, but they need you for the current focus on commercialization.

Pricing 100

Pricing Equity Technical Review Research 100

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. We've modeled our program after TechStars.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

Everyone must know how to listen, talk and write. Most startups don’t have the time or resources to send team members to formal training classes, either in-house or off-site. Startups can’t afford two or more people for every task -- one to do work, and others to communicate results to all constituents.

Startup 99

Startup Mentor Layoffs News 99

InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Within reason, the larger your “graduating class,” the greater the volume of creative ideas and the larger number of talented recruits from which you can select full-time candidates. At Computer Motion, we regularly allowed engineering classes to tour our facilities. Network with professors who can direct their best students to you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Advanced persistence threats (APT) – opens the door to a new class of intelligent application cracking tools. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) – technique used to spread networking worms. Contractor, temp, or outsource worker off site. Phishing bait – Facebook was a lure into FBAction and fbstarter.com Shortened links (bit.ly

Social Network 87

Social Network Networking Tool Sites 87

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API. Implementing JanRain Engage on your site is a lot less work than implementing each login provider one by one. Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. yoursite" will be replaced with the name of your site.

Software Review 40

Software Review PHP Class Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. We grew out of an interesting use case.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

We know that their model works for a certain type of content but we believe we can build higher value sites where we can sell premium advertising and target niche audiences. But Sam is a first-class act and boy does he know how to nail an intro. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet. Don’t blow it.

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Startup Content Conference Media 315

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. People can come to the site, pay you directly, and we provide them with access to your genie, and away they go. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last week, Savings.com , the online coupon site based in Los Angeles, made a big move into the world of grocery store coupons, from its existing business providing coupon codes and deals for the online world. Another factor, was the large number of people searching our site for grocery coupons, something we didn''t have.

Mobile 140

Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

. */. private static E [] getUniverse ( Class elementType ) {. There is a single backing array instance of those Month constants living in memory somewhere ( a private field in the Class object for Month ), but it wouldn't be safe to pass that array directly to every caller of values(). return SharedSecrets. getJavaLangAccess ().

Java 330

Java Class Ideas Writing 330

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Jenna can write a recommendation on Andy’s profile or send an email to friends recommending Andy, one of his workout plans or the fitness event she’s registered for. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. How many users?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

Equity 156

Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. As the co-founder of the Underground Comedy College, for the past 3 years he teaches classes in stand-up, improv and sketch comedy writing to aspiring creative performers. Thanks to our Sponsors!

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. If you want to attract world class talent you have to be inspirational, persuasive and persistent (they best people always have other offers). Both are basically people businesses.

Venture Capital 319

Venture Capital Startup Sales Customer 319

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. If I write $2 million and we hit a bump in the road, I can write another $2 million. Am I allowed to say this?

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. The end user, regardless of the mobile device from which the website is being accessed, will see a mobile version of the your site!

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. Write it down…. We’re positioned well to scale.”.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. As the co-founder of the Underground Comedy College, for the past 3 years he teaches classes in stand-up, improv and sketch comedy writing to aspiring creative performers. Thanks to our Sponsors!

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How unique are you from them?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you.

Equity 232

Equity Startup Organization Invest 232

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Luckily, he had a world class team of more than two dozen committed people ( including Mike Fisher from PayPal/eBay ) who stuck it out with him. Then he simply realized it was unlikely for a business information site like Tracked to become social.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. With enterprise software, your product sits at the customer’s site.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, how did I handle things like unexpected surges in traffic to my site (let’s say after a major press release) and then the subsequent flattening of traffic as the crowd subsided? They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343