SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

That means that the site now allows users to sign-up and have their content personalized based on their interests. You can sign-up via the "Personalize Your Content" button on the right side of the interface shown to the right of the red arrow below.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. Founder : Ummm.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Rufus Labs is one of a number of hardware startups which have started to proliferate in the community, due to low cost hardware, 3D printing, and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Where they start to fail, is one, they are handheld. Because of that, wearables have a good leg up.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

As the NBA playoffs closes to an end in a grueling road to Game 7 between Miami Heats and San Antonio Spurs, it would behoove every startup founder to learn from key elements and strategies of both teams, as lessons from the sport of basketball can directly translate to the success of a startup company. 1) Identifying Team Chemistry.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Fortunately for three companies from the NASA iTech Challenge, they will be teaming up with some of the finest scientific minds to help with space exploration and NASA’s mission to Mars. In the end, three companies in plasma technology, haptic communication and germ-fighting robots took home the win. FGC Plasma Solutions. GermFalcon.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

We caught up with founder Aviv Grill to dig deeper into what the firm is doing. There are two ways you can use the app -- you can either play your iPad like it is a real instrument, by strumming the touch screen. It's a diverse group, both entertainment and technology. First off, let's talk a little bit about your software.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. The large gathering of top investors spilled out of the office into the surrounding sidewalk and swelled with buzz and speculation of what the 10 newly formed companies had to offer. Or maybe a goldmine.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

They ask for a little bit additional information and that's it, you are up and going. You are up and going in just a few clicks. Notice also that on the user screen (Alan Edgett), you can give a badge, vote for Alan, request an endorsement, send a message or give an endorsement. You connect with Facebook. More on this below.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

They ask for a little bit additional information and that's it, you are up and going. You are up and going in just a few clicks. Notice also that on the user screen (Alan Edgett), you can give a badge, vote for Alan, request an endorsement, send a message or give an endorsement. You connect with Facebook. More on this below.

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Examples Startup Course Networking 323

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). To learn more, we caught up with Steve. Every other hand goes down, and ours stays up.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

How do you convince guys to start playing social games? We've started with a robust platform in Facebook, and now we're pushing hard in mobile. Scott Philp" My partner is Ryan Houston, who was formerly at Fanball, heading up sports gaming there. To clear that up, you can buy some aspirin. Wedge Buster just raised a $2.2M

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP? How is it you managed to build such a large technical team here--and attract many Internet and startup veterans?

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP.com? Part of it is also, if you talk to engineers, because we''re pretty aggressive in technology here.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2014

Onboard, teams showed off technology like Furry Flyers, an app that allows passengers to monitor the health and status of their traveling pets, while airport teams like Proximity Signage demonstrated an app that monitors a passenger’s location and displays relevant flight data on overhead screens.

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Technology Mobile Incubator Screening 93

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. What usually happens, is there's a barrage of poorly targeted ads leading up to opening weekend, and it drives downhill from there.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

.&# And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. “Maybe,&# says Naval, “Certainly valuations are creepy up quickly in all stages of deals. It was a bunch of members of the Austin Startup Factory mixed with some out-of-towners like myself.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Launched in beta July last year in Oakland, San Francisco, Dealflicks is a price line for movie tickets and gives movie tickets and concessions for up to 60% off to help theaters get butts in their seats. Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. 3rd Startup. Grew up in Seoul and is bilingual and bicultural.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

So I promised that I would provide a follow-up after the session. This is that follow-up and hopefully it’s useful to people outside of the session as well. Challenges I started by asking the founders in the room to tell me some of the challenges they have working with developers. Poor machine, screen, connection, chair.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

TechZulu caught up with the founders and this is what they said. Bruno Denuit, our CTO, has worked for over ten years on database technologies and cloud services at Microsoft in Redmond. His career started in the SQL Server team, focusing on query languages and query optimization. Tell us how it works? What inspired you?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. I mean, we’re new to this town and new to this industry – so just a lot of things came up during the launch that we’re now looking into.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. Tell us about your startup Moving Analytics and your app Movn. HV: Our current focus is helping people get up and move more, and that’s why we created Movn. So should we be standing up right now? We also set up a competition between the two centers.

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Alon Schwartz

MARCH 21, 2012

Let me start by saying that I owned an iPad from the very beginning. The iPad is on a very short list of technologies that changed the world as well as changed us, and probably for the better. As part of my responsibilities as a CTO of a technology startup is to try different technologies, being software in nature or hardware.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Thank you @eminutes. . Life’s too short not to.

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