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?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.

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TechEmpower

JULY 5, 2016

The check can be made in one central location, no changes to our view classes or client-side code are required, and it only throws exceptions in the specific cases where our default behavior is wrong. Any server-side web framework or HTTP server will do. We can no longer write Mustache or Handlebars templates like this: {{!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Think of web vs. mobile. Neither class of people should give up easily. and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question. Most VCs are book smart. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome, our guest is Eric Ries, founder of the Lean Startup Movement. 00:45 Intro to Eric. 11:00 Mark on over-hyping PR.

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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.

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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. Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking. It was an investment management class. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Most colleges have now added classes in entrepreneurship to include the necessary business focus to technical majors that usually drive innovative ideas. Write a business plan and pitch deck for learning. Build a web site and incorporate while in school. Make a summer internship your best learning class.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This was the first in her string of web properties. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do. After some encouragement from him she decided to launch her own website – Recycled Bride. She’s infectious.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. What I like? Big market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. 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. Quigo set up a system on specific web pages.

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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. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Jeff's father is an entrepreneur, and I wanted to go down the entrepreneurial path, so we had this early concept for a cash back and coupon web site. USC has a fantastic program, in that you are able to be in class, and both learn the concepts and apply it to business. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. 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 ). In our regions?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. Note: Rincon Venture Partners is an investor in Launchpad LA, but otherwise has no affiliation with Divshot.).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. The way I think about branding anything is simple: Define the Attributes You Want to Project. So no prizes for guessing what IA Ventures stands for.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand. Branded again.

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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. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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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. Bruce and Lynda eventually grew their startup into a global powerhouse, offering 5,700 classes and 255,000 video tutorials to over 4 million users.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites. What is Google Analytics?

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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. Plus, we will provide resume writing services. What's the idea behind the site? We've used the profits from NeoHire for funding.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. With this fund, we do not have a cap limit on late stage investments.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. We write and create our own content for the game. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tim Street – Topping Mashable’s list of Social Media VIPs in Los Angeles Tim Street is a Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, New Media Consultant and Web Video Branded Entertainment Pioneer. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Being in business since I was 18 years old has led to a lot of conferences, meetings, mixers, classes, tradeshows and after parties. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. Some have called me a “super connector”. AMAZING “Value” and “Experience”.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tim Street – Topping Mashable’s list of Social Media VIPs in Los Angeles Tim Street is a Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, New Media Consultant and Web Video Branded Entertainment Pioneer. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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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.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. If you look at any graduating class of Y Combinator they’re filled with application companies launching new, experimental services that change the way we work and live.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content.

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