SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

CleanWeb Hackathons are weekend programming competitions taking place in major cities around the globe. The CleanWeb Hackathon will be coming to Los Angeles for the first time starting Friday Nov.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Angel USC Competition 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For instance, one of our targets are those who have large audiences, like mobile carriers. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Who are your core customers?

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

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. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? So mobile is a huge part of it. You aren’t going to make a mobile-centric app right now? Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. Tell us how you got the name? Plus, sunshine.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. Value is becoming the new thing, and the web gives the ability for people to share value and other sides to discovery value.

Southern California 200

Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Time will tell.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. It’s also the wrong answer.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. It's just sign up here, so we can get them into the system.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." He tells us you'll get the following benefits from talking to lots of people: There are lots of benefits to talking to people. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. "We are doing something in mobile advertising." He tells us you'll get the following benefits from talking to lots of people: There are lots of benefits to talking to people. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Press the flesh.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But I don’t think so. 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. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

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. 8 Really Cool Web-Based Tools for Bloggers - Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog , June 1, 2010 Looking for cool applications to help you make your blog or site all it can be?

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175