socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2013

Can the web teach you how to play the piano? Quincy Jones --the famed composer and record producer--thinks so, and has co-founded a new company aimed at helping anyone learn to play the piano on their home computer. a month for access to high definition video tutorials from Jones, David Sides, and others.

Education 203

Education Southern California Content Web 203

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2012

Labeled as one of the fastest growing tech hotspots, Silicon Beach has definitely not slowed down and we need your help building the future, one LEGO at a time in a race that youll never forget. This is a special event for software engineers and web developers who havent stopped being a kid (because we havent!)

Software Engineering 100

Software Engineering Web Development Web Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the search tool provided to see what’s available in your area. This association is definitely one of the world’s leading organization for advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship.

Organization 92

Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly. With a little help from a friend, you can handle expenses, revenue, and payroll, with QuickBooks or a similar package. It never happened in any time frame I can remember, and it definitely won’t happen today.

Entrepreneur 162

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Outsource Development 162

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? I call that providing habitsmonthly habitsto help individuals do better, make better decisions, and who need strategy and strategic implementation of this on regular basis.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area. This association is definitely one of the world’s leading organization for advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

If you are looking to start a new business in any domain, it’s definitely worth your time to check your fit for one of these models: Membership website model. With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment. Front-of-the-line model.

Startup 117

Startup Pricing Customer Custom 117

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. But, do they really help? Because we are able to reach the right person, we can help get them that last mile to the retailer's store. Eli Portnoy: We were definitely not looking at acquisition opportunities.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

El Segundo-based iRise, a maker of software for prototyping web applications and software, is targeting ecommerce retailers with a new set of templates, the firm said Wednesday. The templates help online retailers work through visualization and testing of their sites, before actual coding of their web sites.

Sites 100

Sites El Segundo Template Web 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. will definitely be handled. I need a life-sciences CTO, can you help? Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Can you help me get funding?

CTO Hire 264

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. will definitely be handled. I need a life-sciences CTO, can you help? Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Can you help me get funding?

CTO Hire 259

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Or you want to know about whether you have the right Web Development Company. And this last one is why I tell every startup founder: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have a Technical Advisor. Small talk is tough work for techies – so much so that people post to help techies with small talk. Helping you with your challenges is fun.

CTO Coach 211

CTO Coach Startup Web Guide 211

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. It''s really a combination of the two.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

If you are looking to start a new business in any domain, it’s definitely worth your time to check your fit for one of these models: Membership website model. With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment. Front-of-the-line model.

Startup 168

Startup Customer Custom Netflix 168

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

As you know, a lot of what is involved in social and digital media is figuring out how to build brands, and help brands reach an audience in the interactive world. However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

” It’s like having an online studio helping independent filmmakers and YouTubers get seen. ” It was really interesting to hear all the different perspectives, marketing tips and how each channel represented on the panel helps those who participate on their channel and the success of this genre.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs. For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form.

Venture Capital 223

Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. It's definitely worth a read if you've not seen it before as background for this post. Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password).

Design 225

Design Mahalo Social Network Email 225

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

" Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help. Your technical advisor can likely help. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

I love the web and love Internet marketing. Although the web offers amazing chances for organic growth, you have to do something amazing. We realized that the way the web was heading, was that if you don''t do something amazing, someone will do it better. That''s definitely on our roadmap. It was discouraging.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. It definitely is true that you will be dealing with a lot more noise and chatter than you will be used to in a home office. So was it worth it? Distraction.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Study Web Design Startup 90

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2015

While every state has a slightly different definition of nexus, it is generally defined as, "a physical presence, employee, or products stored in the state." Yet, you may still think, "A million bucks is a lot, this won't hurt my definition of a small business." Does Congress Think Nexus Is A Shampoo? Sounds reasonable, right?

Sales 100

Sales Customer Custom Metrics 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

Education 201

Education Sites Startup News 201

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. It helps to start by determining whether your application needs, or will ever need to consider performance more than superficially.

Web 200

Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’ The other major evolution of Steve’s thinking is in the area of web and mobile businesses, the latter of which were nascent at the time Four Steps was written. If you find one, you become a company.

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Building a strong tech industry to rival that of Silicon Valley is definitely no easy feat, but the overall feeling within Cal Tech’s Baxter Hall at last week’s event certainly bodes well for the year. With a scale-able platform ready to expand to different industries (utilities and maintenance services, etc.)

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work. The Amplify partners are dedicated to helping their entrepreneurs build the best companies possible and they throw themselves into it with great passion. Setting up for Eric Garcetti.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2011

Well email may be the savior of the Western world’s time, but like all great inventions of the last century, it could use a little help. DueToDos is a web based business productivity platform that seeks to save you time and increase efficiency whether you’re solo or on a team. After I received my invite and log in I try it out.

Email 102

Email Platform Web Summary 102

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Again, relying on StartupRoar this time looking at NDA for Startups , I found some good stuff that you should definitely go through in more detail. Definitely read the whole thing. You need all of these people to bake the cake. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Again, relying on StartupRoar this time looking at NDA for Startups , I found some good stuff that you should definitely go through in more detail. Definitely read the whole thing. You need all of these people to bake the cake. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I founded NowLive a year ago, dedicated to producing and streaming live, professional events for the web and mobile, and anchored interactive. I was involved in 2 businesses in strategic marketing, including brokering eBay into the Hollywood studios, helping eBay to monetize their platform for entertainment.

Paramount 187

Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutleier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

Education 171

Education Sites Startup News 171

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. You have to help people get better, and not try to fix things.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Those deals require that a certain minimum people participate, and many also have a maximum number to take advantage of those limited time specials, which helps them to get more exposure and business, plus helps out the community. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170