Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. In addition, Web 2.0 In addition, Web 2.0

Social Network 104

Social Network Networking Content Web 104

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. And maddening.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

CTO Hire 150

CTO Hire Venture Capital Startup Social Network 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. You earn 10Mb in free data for each person you connect to on the platform, which brings down our acquisition costs.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Effective time management skills are often the best competitive edge. Determine where email and social media add value. Keep a check on your web browsing habits, and limit your daily time spent or delegate these activities. Find and use preferred individual contact methods.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Entrepreneur Email Social Media 104

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. > -jeff. Similar to VoiceXML, the standard for the past 5-yrs.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. We have spam filters for our email.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Effective time management skills are often the best competitive edge. Determine where email and social media add value. Keep a check on your web browsing habits, and limit your daily time spent or delegate these activities. Find and use preferred individual contact methods.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Technical Review Email Social Media 105

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd. But the list is increasing as we are supporting more and more social media platforms. We sent out a lot of emails and showed them a lot of visuals of what we can do.

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Rapidly and repeatedly hiring star employees is a competitive advantage. According to Ambrosia Humphrey, the company’s Director of Human Resources, “We had a jobs@ email in place, but it was hard to manage once we decided to move forward with the hiring process.” And we do that at a tenth of the cost of the traditional job boards.”

SaaS 209

SaaS Tool Startup Screening 209

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The day after we shut down the site, we got an email from this company, saying they had a big opportunity they'd like to talk to us about. We're very focused on just on iOS and Android, and not on the web side or administration. The number one thing we are doing is making a competitive listening experience for our users.

Software Review 100

Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. What's your opinion on how well that works, and how much competition are they? We support 700 different handsets across our platform, whereas some folks are just building a Java application which is supported by an expensive, N95, $700 smart phone--which no one has.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Adam Lieber: We make a web server called Jetty, which is our centerpiece, and after twelve or thirteen years of hard work is an overnight success. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system. We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. Those points add up to a Visa gift card.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Despite the growing competition, Philips Hue light bulbs are still the kings of all smart, Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs. Put the power of the web to work. If This Then That, available as an app or through a web browser, is an essential companion to your Hue lights and helps you unlock the “smart” part of your smart light bulbs.

Screening 40

Screening Slides Startup Press 40

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so. You got it.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Are you going to do all of this? You have too much on your plate.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. All of this was supported by the technology platform (adMonitor) that I invented at ReaXions, Inc. 2: “7th Horse in a 7 Horse Race&# We were not the first to build an ad-serving technology platform.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

The mobile Internet – The latest major computing cycle [Email readers, continue here…] Over the last fifty years, the world transitioned from mainframe computing to mini-computers to PCs to the desktop Internet. Let’s explore examples of these and more. Mobile commerce is up 552% in one year (measuring cyber-Mondays).

Mobile 156

Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address. The Importance of Twitter.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition.

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Who are you on the web? Historically you are your email address. It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect.

News 324

News Web Email Startup 324

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Back then there were “email forwards.” This got passed around on email from person to person and became so popular it appeared on the Today Show where Jonah (admittedly not an expert in global factory conditions) appeared with Katie Couric and Nike’s head of global PR and debated sweatshops. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210