SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 4, 2013

This workshop will help you develop a strategy to optimize company growth and liquidity, maximize valuation and capitalize on strategic transactions. Valuation methodologies can be used to optimize transaction outcomes for both buyers and sellers in MandA and other transactions.

Framework 113

Framework Case Study Study Capital 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

When I meet other VCs I’m constantly asking how they decide which investments to make, when to pass, when to do follow-on rounds, when to sell a company vs. when to go long, etc. Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. For example: 1.

Startup 407

Startup Framework CTO Coach Sales 407

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2020

Los Angeles-based Repicated , a new startup that provides monitoring and managing of Kubernetes-based cloud applications, has name former GitLab executive Mark Pundsack as the company's new Chief Product Officer, according to the company. Pundsack was previously Head of Product for GitLab.

Product 113

Product Framework Google Los Angeles 113

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2021

The firm said it is majority Black-owned, and will employ cultural investment framework, using business and consumer trend research to identify companies that are "leveraging shifts in culture and behavior". The new firm is led by Adrian Fenty, Marlon Nichols, Michael Palank, and Charles D.

Venture Capital 124

Venture Capital Seed Funding Capital Funding 124

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2020

Los Angeles-based AcceleratXR said this week that it has launched a new, open source project called Composer.js , a new framework and toolset for building back-end API services using NodeJS.

Framework 113

Framework Los Angeles Platform Services 113

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

The company has been building a title called Blankos Block Party that seems to be Fall Guys meets Roblox meets Funko Pop. While the company has big hopes for Blankos as it onboards more users, the bigger investor opportunity is likely in the game engine that the team is building. The round was led by WestCap.

Platform 308

Platform Framework Los Angeles Design 308

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2023

Without a shared context, people will all create their own narratives for where they think the company is doing well and where it is struggling. Avoid being misled by flawed decision frameworks. Find any way you can to shift the framework. People have to know what is real. Listen to all the key people, then drive the decision.

Help 94

Help Framework Statistics Startup 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free.

Marketing 127

Marketing Framework Social Media Media 127

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2018

Virgin Galactic , the space vehicle developer which is backed by Sir Richard Branson, said on Friday that it has inked a deal with a number of companies to bring Virgin Galactic's spaceflights to Italy. Virgin Galactic develops all of its technology in Mojave, California, and officially has its "operational headquarters" in New Mexico.

Framework 113

Framework Technology Develop Development 113

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

The SXSW festival has not been cancelled yet, although numerous companies are pulling out over concerns of the coronavirus. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework. SXSW organizers said March 2 that the “2020 event is proceeding with safety as a top priority.”

Technical Review 237

Technical Review Framework Los Angeles Mobile 237

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rubicon says that RTK's solutions are build on the same, open source framework as its own, Demand Manager product portfolio, Prebid. The company says it plans to integrate the two solutions in the coming months. According to Rubicicon Project, it paid $11M in cash for RTK.

Framework 100

Framework Advertising Demand Los Angeles 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. The best leaders spend more time on their own processes, skills, and hard decisions on what to keep and what to divest.

Framework 96

Framework Ideas Competition IBM 96

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

A new, Irvine-based startup AONdevices --based in the EvoNexus incubator--said this morning that it has launched its company, which is developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems-on-a-chip (SoC) technology to enable embedding of voice control technology in devices like smartphones and wireless headsets. READ MORE>>.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Framework Incubator Networking 113

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review. Here is how to test yourself. Here is a way to test yourself with a tool useful for any leader seeking to create positive change.

Design 156

Design Framework Ideas Customer 156

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Framework Benchmarks. How much does your framework choice affect performance? Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. We have our own personal favorites among these frameworks, but weve tried our best to give each a fair shot.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. GitHub talked about making these changes as early as June, when CEO Nat Friedman tweeted that it was something the company was already working on. You can sign up here.

Capital 316

Capital Los Angeles News San Diego 316

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. How much does your framework choice affect performance? How much does your framework choice affect performance? Show me the winners!

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2023

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. This is the degree to which customers can put your company under pressure, or leverage prices, delivery, features, and quality (market of outputs). Way back in 1979, Michael E. Bargaining power of customers.

Competition 88

Competition Startup Framework Pricing 88

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

Mobile 250

Mobile Develop Development Artificial Inteligence 250

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. The best leaders spend more time on their own processes, skills, and hard decisions on what to keep and what to divest.

Tips 160

Tips Framework Ideas Competition 160

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

Generative AI 182

Generative AI Marketing Artificial Inteligence Template 182

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In one of the newest "hackathons" to hit Southern California, a group of companies are looking to draw Orange County software developers to a new hackathon, geared around WebRTC, the open "Web Real Time Communications" framework aimed at helping developers create voice and video chat applications. READ MORE>>.

Orange County 208

Orange County Web Development Web Develop 208

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

Invest 113

Invest Framework Coach Startup 113

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. MapR said today that it has raised $110M in a giant funding round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures.

Redpoint 147

Redpoint Framework Technology San Diego 147

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles.

Framework 95

Framework Mobile Conference News 95

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The new toolset put AT&T against such companies as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, who also offer up machine learning and AI development tools based on their own code stacks. According to AT&T, the new software is a collaboration with Tech Mahindra, and will be hosted by The Linux Foundation.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Framework Training Tool 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. This is the degree to which customers can put your company under pressure, or leverage prices, delivery, features, and quality (market of outputs). Way back in 1979, Michael E. Bargaining power of customers.

Competition 151

Competition Startup Framework Pricing 151

Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

Framework 79

Framework Google Advertising Organization 79

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2013

The firm, headed by Michael Bleigh, currently offers up it web-based application builder under a free, open beta; the company said it plans to launch as a paid service later this year. The company said its software is based on the open source Bootstrap framework which was developed by Twitter.

Web 164

Web Software Framework Web Development 164

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free.

Media 95

Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2011

According to the company, its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, won the contract, which goes towards design, development, test, implementation, and maintenance effort for a test and simulation framework for the missile defense system. The contract is spread out over five years, beginning September 1st.

Outsource Development 133

Outsource Development Thousand Oaks Framework Design 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

He has generously donated his time to talk about his company?s SUSE Cloud is an enterprise-class platform that is integrated with Crowbar, the open source framework that manages and configures the OpenStack deployment. Rick Ashford, Linux Technical Sales Specialist, is based in Austin, TX and works for SUSE. link] (more)

Framework 113

Framework Class Platform Sales 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2022

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. Remember that the lynchpin of the entire framework comes down to your own personal ownership and self-accountability.

Startup 140

Startup Framework Slides Resource 140

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 17, 2012

Or are you interested in a job in Business Development at a Tech or Internet company? We will kick off this session distilling what Business Development actually means at an early stage company, and then we will discuss what it entails as the company grows. ll outline characteristics of a great Business Developer ?

Develop 113

Develop Development Startup Framework 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 17, 2012

Or are you interested in a job in Business Development at a Tech or Internet company? We will kick off this session distilling what Business Development actually means at an early stage company, and then we will discuss what it entails as the company grows. See [link] (more)

Develop 100

Develop Development Startup Framework 100

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The toughest aspect of such opportunities is weaning your company off these “bad profits” and focusing on opportunities that may not have an immediate payoff, but will drive long-term enterprise value. A company that is constantly improving, even in small ways, is a difficult company to beat. Two Pizzas, One Meeting.

Tips 223

Tips Framework Metrics Cloud Computing 223

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. In the name of this cause, the company donates time, services, and at least one percent of their sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups around the world.

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Framework Custom Customer Tips 95