SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user.

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user.

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

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.

Santa Monica 250

Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Juan Bruce: My background is in design engineering. I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, working for BMW''s technology office, and design firm Ideo. I then went back to Stanford for business school, and ended up coming down here to Southern California to run a design studio for an Ideo competitor, Continuum.

Downey 215

Downey Content Help Startup 215

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.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

They just announced their Android app (you can download here if you’re on Android or the iOS version if you’re on that platform ). Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine. I was able to casually challenge friends when I had free time on my travels.

Startup 150

Startup Outsource Development Mobile Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. acquired Overture for $1.63

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. Pretty well as it turns out.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I wanted to spend the rest of the blog post telling you why we decided to fund the company, how we settled on the final product design and our unique way of launching the app. We’ve tested tons of design concepts here and expect much innovation on this front in the future. Yes, we’ve only launched on iOS for now.

Invest 150

Invest Tool Product Startup 150

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. Growth hackers.

Startup 79

Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

Elliot Darvick: Unbucket is a platform that enables people to enable planning of their future experiences through collaborative lists. My mom really doesn't like presents, but I thought a great gift would be to plan out things we could do together over the course of a year. Elliot Darvick: I think it's going to be mobile.

Startup 153

Startup Advertising Los Angeles Mobile 153

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The intent of our Spotlight events is always simple: to provide a live platform to showcase the very companies that our driving our tech/start up industry, to show our hometown investors a handful of worthwhile companies, and to give other founders some inspiration and innovation for their own companies. Bill received his B.S.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Individual clips will be posted soon. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 12, 2011

With the rise of mobile phones in the late 90′s and early 2000′s, it was not hard to get a hold of someone. If you have friends on different platforms, PingChat is definitely high on the list of candidates. The main downside I see with this app is with it’s speed and design. Let us know in the comments.

Google 58

Google Mobile Platform Design 58

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. I’ve spoken positively about their design simplicity, their UX flow and their marketing prowess. It’s about 10 minutes long.

Company 295

Company Companies Gogii Google 295

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Technical Review 82

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications. Of course, no one service is correct for all use cases.

SaaS 90

SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. 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. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. So there you have it.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Individual clips will be posted soon. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Doorman is the mobile friendly middleman to accept, then redeliver your packages in 1-2 hour windows up to midnight. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

Mentor 75

Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5 ” She is redefining how business is taught and using her personal online platform apart from a designated channel platform to do so. Remember, it’s talent first, then technology. See you there!

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

He created the Alpha Trainer, fitness app with an extensive customizable training program and was released on both the iOS and Android platforms earlier this May. I first founded two mobile companies before I worked on Alpha Trainer. I saw the mobile ecosystem as a start of my plans for Alpha Trainer. Greatest achievement?

Startup 97

Startup Training Examples Help 97

Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

A year later, the U2 captured another stunner: images of tall, liquid-fuel missiles in central Asia – designed to hit targets as far off as New York. Weighing only 1,500 pounds, it was designed to be carried either by a bomber or a rocket. A test version exploded on Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands on Nov.

Burbank 52

Burbank Demand Design Press 52

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

Activision 217

Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that!

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Take Watson , IBM’s artificial intelligence platform as an example: it has advanced significantly since it handily defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy game show four years ago. Will QNX be driving Automotive Infotainment as Android drives mobile? In each movie, the computer evolves and takes control of everything. Time will tell.

Google 40

Google Artificial Inteligence Research Marketing 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

YouTube AND other platforms. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. The platforms are expanding and fragmenting. Video is much more valuable with sight, sound & motion. Your job on YouTube is to build fans and convert audiences that want to also consume your content elsewhere. It’s both / and.

Content 150

Content Snapchat Platform SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

We’re essentially a data platform and envision others building applications to take advantage of this information. A mobile marketing company could track campaigns and then measure increases in retail traffic driven into local stores. Density is simply the data & analytics platform.

Marketing 150

Marketing Course Startup Organization 150

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. We give them options and advice on the best course to reach their goals, such as responding quickly and getting to market faster. We've even seen people running Jetty duringly on a Windows Mobile phone. It's extremely widely used.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

(Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2021

All Territory foods are freshly prepared by local chefs or restaurants and their menus are designed to fit Territory’s healthy eating plans. Because you can choose menu items or chefs / restaurants you like it doesn’t immediately feel “same-ish” as many food platforms that are prepared in a centralized kitchen feel. It’s still awesome.

.Net 349

.Net Startup Course Social Media 349

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2013

If you can make it out tonight tickets are still available: Featuring tech demonstrations for new apps and platforms, the Civic Innovation Showcase will highlight 7 Los Angeles area start-ups (and Hub LA members!) in the tech-for-change/civic innovation sector, all of whom are creating new applications designed to enhance our civic lives.

Los Angeles 88

Los Angeles Mobile Startup Platform 88

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

LB: Currently, we are about 75% and that’s really because in this phase we have developed what I think is the most critical aspect of our platform, which is the technology that allows us to truly build our community. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application.

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. 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. They think design wins.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Of course, with more startups, this is still a tough space, with VCs funding only one out of 400 requests they get, and Angels limiting their focus to one out of 40. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109