Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup urRadio (www.urradio.com) thinks so. There is already lots of competition in the streaming music area, what do you think you can add to that area? We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo!

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

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.

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USC Software Review Content Customer 145

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

ZehnerGroup is a full-service digital agency headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Our unique entrepreneurial spirit lends itself perfectly to launching the next great web startup or is generating that fresh spark to create a competitive advantage for a large corporation. ZehnerGroup designs and builds custom websites that scale.

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Culver City Media Web Design 40

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition. Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.)

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. 8211; Garry Tan.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. Sequoia has a tremendous reputation, but it was also important to us to have a local (Los Angeles) VC as well. Now, finally, we would see advancements in the way people use email!

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