socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses. Topspin is backed by the Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. How will we find and interview developers?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. How concerned are we about design for mobile?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

This summer, parent company Niantic is unveiling Campfire, a social app designed to help mobile augmented reality (AR) gamers connect. Niantic’s games incentivize people to use their technology to go outside and meet others — that’s why it calls its AR development the “real-world metaverse.”

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. How concerned are we about design for mobile?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I’m seeing and hearing that it’s becoming tough finding good developers again, at least here in Los Angeles. On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. My company, TechEmpower , recently added a few top notch developers, but it wasn’t easy to find just the right people.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. IconFinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux).

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2014

El Segundo-based iRise , which develops enterprise visualization software used by companies for developing their internal applications, said yesterday that it has started offering up its software to students at two local universities. iRise develops software which helps companies design corporate applications without software coding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Of course, there are caveats to every opportunity. So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? When the world gets smaller.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow may have spent their days over the past few years working at Snap, but on nights and weekends Anderson and Lorenz were laboring on a different project — improving Ethereum development tools. . “We were really working on scalability testing.” ” .” ”

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions. ” Of course, we will have to wait and see whether all the talk of improved startup workplaces comes to pass.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Of course, there are caveats to every opportunity. So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? When the world gets smaller.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Then the company needed to develop other technologies like vacuum conditioning. “The energy is super tiny.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2015

Nierenberg had most recently been at Salesforce.com,where he had been in product management; he also was former VP of Business Development and Strategy for Chatter, and also served at The Bridgespan Group. The company is one of several, Central Coast companies who are rumored to be eyeing the public markets and a potential IPO. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2023

Of course, relationships seldom fit neatly into a given level. How many do you have at the top level, and what are you doing to actively develop more? In business, there is another dimension, the level of your relationship, and the level of trust and giving established. These relationships must be based more on giving than on getting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2021

It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital. ”

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. See [link] (more)

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Orange County Startup Course Software Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. See [link] (more)

Orange County 100

Orange County Startup Course Software Development 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. The more you are regularly checking in the more room for course correction or at a minimum the more bought in board members are because they participated in the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. Reduce the time to production and rollout.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Of course, neither this original mission statement, nor its current one, actually reflect how Facebook profits as a business — it primarily sells adverts to users. The company mission statement is, of course, a way to seize attention externally, and focus team members on the end destination.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. Fall quarter of Sr.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Open to potential career pivoters and professionals of all levels, the panel consisted of the following panelists, whom entered their positions from backgrounds ranging from business to engineering to design. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. Cauri Jaye , Panel Moderator and Project lead @ Sony Pictures ; Rhubarb LLC.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised. 2 million raised.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Of course, relationships seldom fit neatly into a given level. How many do you have at the top level, and what are you doing to actively develop more? In business, there is another dimension, the level of your relationship, and the level of trust and giving established. These relationships must be based more on giving than on getting.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. Inevitably as a society we began “teaching to the tests” and we design curricula around proficiency in these basic skills.

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Design Ideas Startup Writing 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 243

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Of course, some balance is required. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2009

Pasadena-based solar thermal technology developer eSolar has unveiled a Lancaster solar power plant this morning, saying that the firm's 24,000 mirror, 5-megawatt plant will provide electricity for more than 4,000 homes in the Antelope Valley. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. Reduce the time to production and rollout.

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