socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Tell us the story behind Stroome and how it came about? My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. We grew out of an interesting use case. It ran in April of 2008.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products.

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Founder is a state of mind, not a job description” We all love the mythical stories of our great founder heroes who drove startups from scratch and led their businesses many years later: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos and so on. ” But lately I’m more swayed by the wise words of Reid Hoffman. It’s your baby.

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Startup Technical Review Product Blogging 303

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks. To make these smaller cells work, the way you would traditionally operate and manage them are not going to be sufficient.

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Networking Startup Software Tips 153

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? What''s your background and how did you end up at YP?

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

Steven Cox: We are a marketplace that helps service providers make a living, doing what they like to do. The goal is to curate and find the best service providers, and help them make a living what they love to do. I actually paid my way through school working as a DJ and playing in a band, and was the lead singer in a rock band here.

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Startup Education Study Ideas 260

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Explain what Epoxy is and how it works? Juan Bruce: What we are doing at Epoxy, is we develop software tools for online video channels, allowing them to connect with their audiences where they audience connects most, which is social media. I have a computer science degree from Stanford, and also had worked at BMW in New York.

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Downey Content Help Startup 215

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? What''s your background and how did you end up at YP.com?

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time.

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Startup Platform CIO Entrepreneur 70

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

The only thing that makes our 7-second commute to work interesting is avoiding the inventory of computer mice stacked in our living room. John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Here''s how they pulled it off.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Let me give you some (real) examples: - You were an EIR at a VC firm who isn’t funding your current company. - The person who founded the company is no longer working for the company. It’s called “The Elephant in the Room&# and there’s a lot of truth in this adage. I sometimes call these White Elephants.

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Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

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.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood.

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Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

For those who haven't seen LeisureLink before, explain how your service works? Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel. How long has this been in the works? Let's talk about the new round.

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Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. Most investors wait to see who else is investing. &# Social Proof&# weighs heavily on investors in making their decisions. Photo credit: D.

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Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! I promise in real life I don’t suck at spelling OR grammar. OK, it’s official! I just cover the companies that were funded that week.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

The only thing that makes our 7-second commute to work interesting is avoiding the inventory of computer mice stacked in our living room. John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Here''s how they pulled it off.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

It’s almost been a work week since Techzulu and Gadget Review’s REACH | The Connected Future and we’re still reeling with excitement. Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version?

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. Today we had another episode of TWiVC – you can watch the episode here. This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. What are you working on now? Details coming soon!)

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Partners make investment decisions. And that doesn’t work remotely. People avoid difficult decisions until they have to make them. Their story will likely be very different from yours. It takes a lot of work. Meet in person.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

But let’s be real we’re a long ways away. That dream, is a concept of the ultimate driving (and non-driving) experience, where cloud-based intelligence can be utilized to make transportation efficient, maximize road safety, and create technologically immersive driving experiences. It’s the future.

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Mobile Google Startup Technology 94

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. I saw there was a real opportunity to create a site that has all of those things, but in a more appropriate environment.

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

So consider this something of a recap, photo essay, and a personal thank you to all the great people who worked alongside us at SXSW this year. Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! All official SXSW Interactive and SXSW Music photos.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. On top of that, god forbid, if someone gets E.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. Imagine, when you are interacting with a real world object, you can move it around, and it's very visual and alive. In the real world, you pick up an object, and you can hand it to seomeone else.

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Platform Startup Examples Web 168

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. What is PromoJam? How did you two start the company?

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Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2012

What do you do when a new industry, which serves the same customers as you do, suddenly appears and starts to grow astronomically? It takes mo bile, email, and retail into a single engine, which increases the value of new and existing customers. What kind of customers are using your product? We're linking online and offline.

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Startup Customer Custom Commerce 208

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

One out of ten of Americans are out of work. 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. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

Michael Chasin: LawKick.com is essentially a marketplace that makes it easier than ever to find legal help. How the website works, is the client goes to the website, and indicates what they need help with. What''s the story behind the firm? But, how do you start? What''s LawKick about? That happens in just a five minute process.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The level is raised all around and the talented, hard working, or crafty individuals are able to propel. However, defining rubbish is a tricky thing when you’re talking about creative work. Obvious statement of the year: Electronic music is everywhere. I could go on all day about this but I’ll spare you.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. What's your story and how did you end up founding Pluto TV? I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth. I grew up in Maryland.

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Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

The annual Apple event where no real hints about what products they plan to release are floated in the public domain in advance. Any company who develops products reliant on iOS spends weeks crapping their pants before WWDC. The golden rules to live by are: Platforms are channels not businesses. It’s madness. You’ll be dead.”.

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Google Press Marketing Content 325