socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We now invest in more companies, include better trainers and involve 3 times more investors in the demo days. At Expert DOJO early stage startups receive $100,000 investment, success coaching, advice, and specialist help in all areas of their business growth. In 2018 & 2019 Expert DOJO made 42 investments.

Southern California 113

Southern California Technical Review Santa Monica Invest 113

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. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

However, demonstrating that value to clinicians without a DEMO or a pilot is a challenging aspect of the market adoption. Clinicians must be convinced that this positively disruptive technology will indeed help them provide better treatment. Did you do anything in particular to rally your fans and clients?

Competition 122

Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 122

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. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? At the closing party, attendees kept saying "This is great! When's the next one?"

Dollar Shave Club 272

Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. and web plug-in capabilities (Yelp), Storitz definitely gave the biggest eye opener of the evening with their revelation that Storage Units is astonishingly, a $20 billion/yr industry.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. The idea is that if I can serve you an ad for a function that you already need to perform on the web anyways – a captcha – with a brand message I can drive recall.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The web is so powerful today, that Croquet allows them to now create truly collaborative applications that could not be done before. It helped that we had done things a few times before like this, so it really wasn't a technical problem. Right now, we're a web-based solution, and we have additional game engine solutions going forward.

Platform 168

Platform Startup Examples Web 168

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) The main reason that your advisors tell you to focus on your vertical, your age demo or your users favorite destination is that this is the obvious way to interest your user base. Here’s how you should think about your PR plan.

Blogging 309

Blogging Journal Press Startup 309

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Oh, and the cocktail party afterward also rocked! (I

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. You have to decide how hard to help with downstream marketing for your deals. A little Groucho Marx always helps. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. And there’s conferences.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. The coolest part about these products was that most of the were live working demos. Cool Car Pools for example, an application to help co-workers locate each other that they could carpool with, demoed an entire use case for us. Teams: CoderTie.

Santa Monica 90

Santa Monica Startup PHP HTML 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. Couldn’t be helped.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. If you get a chance to see their demo, take it. Currently, Coincident.TV right now and it will rock your world.

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. What: A Startup Demo event. to 11:00 p.m.

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding. I think the tighter knit the ecosystem is, between investors and entrepreneurs, it really helps.

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

. · Tuition.io, dubbed Mint.com for student loans, has helped students from over 130 universities manage over $100 million in debt, which represents over 10,000 student loans. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. . The founders previously ran another company together.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

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. Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. Mobile Web America, Inc. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. The time has finally arrived! What: Spotlight Series Event.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. The demo is the ceremonial end to the structured part of it, but our focus is really on building a really great business. Some flew in from overseas, different states and from Silicon Valley to attend.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. One man junk, is another mans treasure.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. Demo Day / Angel Pitch. Tons of info and tons of fun!”

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map. 7:00 – 7:45pm – check-in.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He wasn’t really ready to raise VC but wanted to meet me early in his process and wanted some help thinking through potential angel or seed stage investors. We all know that many companies have tried to deliver targeted advertising on the web. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us. This meeting was a 10/10 for me.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. Most have been involved in some capacity along the way with Startup UCLA, and all will be represented during the demo day. Comment help. The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Post navigation.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. He received a B.S. Dinesh earned his B.S. RSVP: AGENDA.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.) pulls assumably free and public data from the CrunchBase database to provide a mobile accessible directory of contacts and company info.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Saudi Arabia uses your gas dollars to fund solar energy Health Cisco helps build first U.S.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Gyft’s team sent a very brief email asking politely to set up a time to demo their product. I was able to watch their presentation before the call, which helped shed some light on the great personality of their company and its individuals. It doesn’t tip over (they tried in the demo to prove it). Plain and simple.

Press 103

Press Email Tips Conference 103

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

We're now waiting to help people learn that they can now do this, and use it to tell a better story. After I left Sprout, I worked with a dozen venture capital firms to help them grow their startups and figure out what to do with technology. I was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along.

Metrics 100

Metrics Startup Sales Newsletter 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. The Sponsors. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Johan Nel, CEO and founder of Umuntu Media says,” Mimiboards will help people on the continent record and handle issues live as they emerge. The Mimiboard beat ten other apps from Africa to be the best at the App demo competition held at the Nairobi Open Innovation Summit in May. Mimiboard, virtual, 3.0

Advertising 91

Advertising Media News Content 91

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2008

With your technology, and having seen your demos, it seems like this would be very compute intensive. Now, it can be downloaded from the web as a DirectX version. backing for Total Immersion is helping us to grow year after year, and to get more and more clients and revenues. Are PCs now faster so you can do this?

Startup 100

Startup Advertising Los Angeles Sales 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Bill received his B.S. What: Spotlight Series Event. RSVP: AGENDA.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2015

Each team on a project thinks and wants their part of the project to be the most important, however the web is not and never will be best case scenario for any team on a project. Apple also demoed their watch. Also, Google launched Android Wear and took another crack at TV with the Nexus Player.

Google 40

Google Design Software Review Education 40