Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As inflation rates spiral and consumer demand takes a hit, business owners are forced to be more mindful of their bottom lines than ever. Want to browse the web privately? ? Microloans are ideal for businesses looking to rebuild, repair, or enhance their business by investing in assets like inventory, supplies, or furniture.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Resources from server space and database storage to sophisticated software are all available on demand to anyone with little more than a Web connection and a credit card. Less than a decade ago, a company needed to invest heavily in infrastructure and software, and recruit the (continued.).

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California. Tags: insights opinions venture capital angel investment exit merger acquisition.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Yet I still recommend apps as a good starting target for aspiring technical entrepreneurs, since they don’t require a large initial investment, and you can learn an incredible amount about the realities of business, without risking a lifetime of effort and several investor fortunes. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps.

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Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Without the promise of riches or with reduced interest in blockchain-based exclusivity, where will consumer demand go? million in pre-seed investment from investors including Liberty City Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Coinbase Ventures. NFT infrastructure startup NFTPort raised a $26 million Series A round led by Atomico.

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Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Tags: cocodot dewolfe chris spinout media demand demandmedia sodahead mindjolt platformg startup myspace. www.demandmedia.com). Generation Partners.

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Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. Pull marketing is more effective with consumers. That trend is growing every day. Mobile devices and apps enhance social interactivity.

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Custom Customer Marketing Social Media 172

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early-stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. MySpace, for example, boomed after launch for five years without a revenue model.

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Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It''s a web based controller, which gives you direct access to the system with their phones or browser. Most controllers out there now are timers, which basically do not react to water demand. Instead, we run a model in the cloud based on the weather and calculate actual water demand, and we adjust the schedule on a daily basis.

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Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We let restaurants set pricing based on demand, and then if you're hungry looking for a place to eat, we match you up with a restaurant offering a great deal. Before that, I worked at the Pasadena Angels, the angel investment group. John Delacruz: Right now, people come to our web site and tell us what they want.

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Idealab Pasadena Pasadena Angels Demand 217

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

You may dream of developing a new silicon chip technology, but a bit of research should tell you that most disruptive solutions take billions in investment, and more time than you can afford for acceptance. More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts.

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Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences. The Continued Growth of Cloud. The All-Important User Experience.

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Artificial Inteligence Screening Google Custom 106

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

Across the globe, politicians are concerned about high security, accuracy and privacy demands. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0 Understanding that we could save billions of dollars by transmitting all Medicare prescriptions electronically is one thing, implementing it is another.

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Web 2.0 Web AeA Journal 40

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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ChatGPT 139

ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Training Startup 139

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Using the social web to fill excess capacity that exists in nearly every business was one of the best uses of the web that I've seen. We've seen a lot of innovation come out of Los Angeles in the past few years, with Demand Media, Socialvibe, Zag, ShoeDazzle, Factual and many others. Great things will emerge there.

Venture Capital 234

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Southern California 234

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

Yet I still recommend apps as a good starting target for aspiring technical entrepreneurs, since they don’t require a large initial investment, and you can learn an incredible amount about the realities of business, without risking a lifetime of effort and several investor fortunes. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yes, the investor may literally have said to you: "That is something I'd seriously think about investing in when you have your product built." Yes, they are happy that you have your product built and that does make it much more investable. Investors demand more than that. How much is it costing you to get users?

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Middle Market Investment Banking. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. The reason they do that, is we solve the peak demand problem they have on the grid. Explain what that peak demand problem is for the utilities?

Southern California 100

Southern California Technical Review Demand Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The difference between Pandroa and us, versus who we are, and on demand services like Spotify, Beats, or Rhapsody, is they have direct licenses. We now have both Android and iOS coverage, and very soon we''ll be releasing a web app. Where are you in terms of investment? Tom McAlvey: We have everything. We have 25 million tracks.

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Startup Services Advertising Content 237

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Middle Market Investment Banking. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Need office or Tech Space?

Southern California 133

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Josh Meyers: Slickdeals is the web''s largest deal sharing community. We''re making a significant investment now to just understand our own data, and what''s happening on our site. We''re also investing in marketing, as the company has grown up until now entirely through viral growth. What gets measured gets fixed.

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Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2010

I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company making a strategic investment in our business, which was capable of driving new demand to the large company though a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

Outsource Development 120

Outsource Development Invest Conference Training 120

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

David Aronchick: When we first got started, although we had a number of connection through Fouad, I worked with my network in Los Angeles, and my network in Seattle, and we landed an angel investment split between both those Los Angeles and Seattle investors. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. The power of the web increased dramatically and “Cloud Computing&# began to take a huge leap forward.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.

Technology 40

Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

Snapchat 74

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. If you don’t believe in your bones that you’re amazing then it’s no wonder you don’t want to sell them on making the investment.”

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

Try working at Goldman Sachs, the exceptionally successful investment bank where its employees regularly work evenings and weekends and travel at a moment’s notice to client meetings in far corners of the country or world. They push the boundaries on eReaders on video streaming on web hosting on logistics and a variety of other fronts.

Startup 150

Startup Demand Organization Social Network 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market. We can help brands achieve, on average, conversions that are 10 times higher than the industry.

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Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196