socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What's the hardest challenge for your company?

Buzznet 100

Buzznet Outsource Development Design HTML 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. Every startup (every company, really) was beholden to the traffic god that was Google search. the rest of the time.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. They created a platform for communication between family members who has a loved one admitted in the hospital. There were many cool apps created over that weekend.

Hollywood 82

Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

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. Gold Sponsor. .

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Yes, there is the mythical company you all heard about that walked into Sequoia and had a term sheet 24 hours later. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. They came to me 2 years ago with their company, GumGum , and were trying to raise an A round of capital. I’m sure that happens.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Startup Google Yammer 291

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Every good entrepreneur dreams really big, and we're planning on having 1 percent of 37 million brands on our platform. Our roots are in Flash, and in fact the company came about as a project for Macromedia. Socialtech is an enterprise wiki, social business platform in Palo Alto. Mark Sylvester: It has been different.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

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. Gold Sponsor. .

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. The old media companies were resistant to change. Photos…the final frontier.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. First, you’ll need a platform. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. I’m very particular to Disqus as my commenting platform. I put much time into it. Blogger kinda sucks IMHO.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

We started the company based on my own personal experience, as everyone these days has a laptop, and everyone has their application out on the cloud. Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration platform, typically hosted by an IT department. William Chow: I started the company a couple of years ago. How is the company funded?

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

Authors'' Note: We''re using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests.

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. Enter Apple. To an extent.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. If you’re a company and if hanging it off of your company website makes sense for the link traffic – go for it.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373