Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. We took into account innovation and entrepreneurship, style and appeal, originality, community, and value.

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. What makes their story more remarkable, in the age of 20-something billionaires, is that both of the company’s founders are in their 50’s.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 31, 2010

It is not that they lack a good product! So we know that your in business to succeed - what kind of plans do you need: Business Plan. Current owner investment. This can be a competent of your business plan or a separate document, but in either case it need only be a couple of pages long. Marketing Plan.

Sample 140

Sample Social Media Incubator Marketing 140

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Disclosures of information.

Startup 89

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Disclosures of information.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We spoke with Harry yesterday about the company. Lottay's gift are virtual things--anything you want--attached to real money, in a PayPal account. How did Lottay start, and tell us about your Series A? If they are, they just have a link that gives them the very happy notice that they have $25 in their PayPal account.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Pick a company name and check any potential trademark infringements on Trademarkia or KnowEm. Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. Vet your idea with the idea checklist. Recommended.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers? accessibility.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. companies versus the Web 1.0

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. Only about a dozen U.S. Loss of control.

Startup 94

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 94

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

TZ: In our last interview you said that you were about 25% at capacity of your original vision for Miigle. A year and a half later and post-public launch, at what capacity do you think Miigle is today of your original vision? Once you have logged in to your Miigle account, the first step is editing your profile.

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Of course there are scenarios where a written business plan is not critical, but I haven’t seen one yet where a well-written 15-page document, or at least a 10-slide pitch, is a negative. Hopefully you know your friends and family better than I do, so you decide when a business plan is required.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Technical Review Writing Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

But some larger companies, such as Canonical, came to the crowdfunding community to help them fund projects like the Ubuntu Edge. Even if Canonical did not reach its goal, the campaign has given other larger companies to look into crowdfunding other future projects. Do you believe in crowdfunding over the traditional ways of investing?

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. With a bank account full of someone else's money, it's hard not to feel flush with cash and have a false sense of security. Having no money can help you plan.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. Later on, when you are at a university, you might manage things like your resume and portfolio. Later on, when you are at a university, you might manage things like your resume and portfolio.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We wanted the name to also reflect what the company is about – Profile – was an important word for us – as people create profiles on the site – then it was finding possible domain names that would work. What are your backgrounds? What are your backgrounds? What inspired you? Any funding yet?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. was the “static&# web.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

What's your background and how did you decide to start the site? About eight years ago, I founded a recreation company, which, oddly enough, is now one of my own suppliers. I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. How is the company funded? We're really in the memories business.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Instead, spend your time gathering qualitative data, interviewing users, understanding the problem-behind-the-problem you’re trying to solve, and prototyping concepts. Do this for a couple weeks!

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. is a good monthly investment? Skip to primary content.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. You’re not the only one.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29