socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're enabling people with access to the channel, to add energy monitoring to their products.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP?

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP.com?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. We provide primarily enterprise, category, point-, and sit in between the legacy guys and mobile guys.

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Entertainment Sales Mobile Startup 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. That's where our initial database of products is coming from. Mickie Rosen: There were obviously a number of ways to develop and roll this out. What was behind that decision?

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Our customers tend to be mostly moms, but also some dads who support their families, uncles, aunts, and their friends, but primarily moms. We help them identify products that are safe and health for them and their families, from organic baby food, to household items. They had a store, but weren't selling much.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. Who are your typical customers?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been your favorite part about developing the company ShopperSeeks?

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Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system. One of thing we did, is we became a MCN.

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Media Content Startup IP 235

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. It's in the automated translation category of the industry. Who would be the typical customer for this service?

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2010

Mobile Roadie , the Southern California based startup that helps anyone create and develop an Android and iPhone apps announced today Mobile Roadie Pro. They have expanded the product offering from one CMS package to three. Customers will now be able to choose their level of customization from Mobile Roadie CORE, PLUS, and PRO.

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Mobile RSS Southern California Content 40

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Let's start with the products. Our technology, instead of having your remember a password, instead has you remember three categories of images. It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

We focus on the creative content of TV advertising, and we've developed a very powerful, scoring algorithm which we call Ace Scores, which rates advertising effectiveness, and deliver that data to our customers--advertisers and agencies--through a software-as-a-service offering. We're really revolutionizing TV ad creative.

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Advertising Palomar Startup Customer 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. What we are spending money and time on is onboarding customers on one end and on the other end onboarding providers.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We help them distribute their product, and put it on the shelf, anywhere a customer might buy--whether that's with a tour operator, travel agency, or a travel website. There's content loading, customer service, and account management--the basic guts of the operation. Eric Hovanec: We've got some operational growth opportunities.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

The problem in developing a character rig--which is a model character in a computer environment--is a complex, custom process. Brian Nilles: Yes, our alpha is meant to communicate to our prospective customers what our tools look like. There's a broad set of categories, and even others we hadn't anticipated.

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Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Lack of confidence?

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