socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Opendoor has opened the door, so to speak, for startups to apply their technical expertise in search, marketplaces and audience segmentation to rethink the very antiquated and analogue world of property. All are previous investors from the startup’s last round, a $16.55 million Series A also led by QED.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez of Ulevate (www.ulevate.com), a startup which is combining technology with the beauty and spa industry. Our solution was to build a new device, which is the only smart device on the market, which incorporates all the things customers are asking for. What is Ulevate?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers? Plenty, says Chon Tang, one of the leaders involved in launching a new program for chip developers at UC Berkeley’s growing startup accelerator SkyDeck. Competition isn’t the biggest problem in a field so primed for innovation, says Tang, who is.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Who are your core customers? 3 very active, 3 have been deployed.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

On-demand, delivery startup Schlep and Fetch (www.schlepandfetch.com) wants to be the place you contact first to get practically anything delivered for you, whether that's a food order or something you forgot to pick up from home. We spoke with co-founder Bryson Strauss about the startup. How far along is the business?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

We’ll work with customers and partners to minimize disruption, and there will be no immediate impacts to their Webpass service,” according to the statement. “We A statement e-mailed by a Google spokeswoman didn’t give a reason for the decision.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

One startup, SwoopThat (www.swoopthat.com)--started by a recent college grad Jonathan Simkin --has made it much easier to buy books for student, by pulling up books based on a student's schedule. How did you come up with the web site? Jonathan Simkin: Certainly, it is extremely competitive.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Why did you decide on the on-demand service area for a startup?

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

Telcentris is based in San Diego. We recall you started from the phone side of the world? What has set us aside from the competition, is we built our own back end telco platform. It is a competitive environment. Our tool opens that up for people. Tell us a little bit about VoxOx and Telcentris?

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

The Obama administration’s push to sign up one million Americans for a long-term health study will start in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Tucson, AZ, top health officials said today. A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Barr wrote in a blog post announcing the tie-up. Fiber networks are expensive to build.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

However, there is still room for competition. It’s not yet an ecosystem driver in B2B, although the longer it takes for other business supply companies to catch up, the harder it will be to beat Amazon. Companies must learn to become ecosystem drivers – even if only for a subset of their customers – in order to survive.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

People start a business for many reasons. Many startups choose not to establish a board of directors until a few years down the line. However, I’ve found that the startups that grow the fastest are often those that built a good board of directors as soon as they started their business.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Yet, I couldn’t duplicate what I had very easily, so I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new design and Cojoin is that new design. The other is messaging.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 As is typically the case in any industry, but even more so in security, larger companies with established customers and products typically innovate more slowly than startups that are not encumbered by a legacy business.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

For the cybersecurity industry, 2016 is shaping up to be the year of alliances. There have been a series of tie-ups, as security-tech companies try to boost their businesses and amplify their products via acquisitions. Cyber industry alliances, the thinking goes, could make customers’ cyber defenses stronger and easier to manage.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Who are the typical customers for your products? We started with Wi-Fi based technology, using 802.11. Congrats on funding. Explain what your products do?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. The second customer is the social networking sites. Derrick Oien: The primary market is the operator.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

Over the course of the two-day event, drones and the sharing economy came up again and again as game-changing technologies with the power to improve our lives. Drone delivery will take noisy trucks off our city streets, in the process reducing urban traffic, cutting fuel consumption, reducing carbon emissions, and speeding up delivery times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Anything ?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media. I saw that kids seem to get bored by kids sites by age ten or eleven, and then they start moving onto sites that shouldn't be online and really aren't appropriate for children.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.

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