Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. I just saw an interesting step in that direction via a new book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. External forces (competitors and customers). But none have any lock on success.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content.

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

It literally lets them talk to their customers in a never-before way, on a one-on-one basis. Based on those three inspirations, I wanted to build a company that allows brands and celebrities to speak to their customer in a unique manner. Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon.

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One, is with cause marketing, engaging your customers around causes; second, is employee engagement around causes, and the last is corporate social responsibility, companies working with vendors or other folks they work with, and the public in general. Employee engagement is something we'll be releasing into our platform shortly.

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry. Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: While creating our email product, we'd done quite a bit of work on patenting the processes we were going through, and liked the concept of private messaging. Some of our most important customers and targets are device manufacturers and big brands, who are trying to differentiate themselves on mobile devices.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

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Patents CarsDirect Sites Pomona 179

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Free product.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We’re interested in being at the leading edge of how people search and explore the web based on images. Our mission is to create a dynamic platform with powerful tools that provide the most engaging user experience possible. Any funding yet, if yes how much and by who? What is your driving force, energy? Have you had any challenges?

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Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Check out the inaugural Startup UCLA companies, as self-described, below: Accelsor – Accelsor simplifies custom website creation into a single step by eliminating the prototyping and coding stages. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. RiJCFI 30 minutes ago.

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

To him, there’s a lot of money on the table for things like clean web, but if there aren’t any meat and potatoes projects, the whole system isn’t as effective. UCLA itself has been prodigious in patent filing, and recently launched their own VC fund. 2050 full utilization of local water.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A. Register Now!

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Patent Lawsuit 6. We had over 3,000 customers, delivered over 8 billion e-mails and online advertisements per month and reached over 65% of the Internet population through our technology (adMonitor).

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Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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