socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2016

StatMuse develops natural language search software and a social interface, which helps fans push out statistics about their favorite teams; the company currently has a deal with the NBA to offer up its service to fans of the league. The round came from Techstars, The Walt Disney Company, Allen & Co., READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

Is the world ready for another event management software provider? Gregg Parise , the CEO of the company, sat down to talk to us about the company''s launch. What is Events.com all about? Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

There are a few reasons why rct studio, which is keeping mum about the meaning of its deliberately lower-cased name for later revelation, is going for the computer-generated world. Or Apple, which designs its own devices to carry out superior software experience,” explained Ma. Path to monetization. Image: rct studio.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 5, 2018

I expect that you have a story about how insurance saved you lots of money in your past. A typical beginning package for a small company costs about $4 thousand a year and covers several forms of liability for both premises and product as well as employee use of self-owned cars for work, theft, employee dishonesty and more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

Our most recent Demo Day in November 2018 (at Google/Venice on the main stage) was the most well-attended Demo Day in the history of Startup Boost. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

Why You Need to Be Sure You’re Not the Sucker ” I talked about how VCs (or other investors) get deals sent to them and how to interpret a referral. I wrote here about the importance of proprietary dealflow . I wrote here about why I avoid party rounds. I avoid Demo Days like the plague and have publicly said so.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. You left the meeting dreaming about money and finally having resources to do all of the things you wanted to do.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. Explain what your service/app is all about? About 12 percent of those shopping carts are abandoned because they''re too complex or it takes too long.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps. I was a sponge.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 12, 2014

The built-in battery that powers the display and electronics lasts for about nine hours, which Weller sees as the maximum time that anyone would (reasonably) spend on a motorcycle continuously. The AR-1 was introduced last October at DEMO, and Skully said more than 100,000 motorcycle riders have signed up to be beta testers since then.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

How about Andy Milonakis? TouchFrame is one of the nine companies which launched themselves at MuckerLab's big Demo Day yesterday, the second class of startups to launch out of the accelerator. The software also includes a way to challenge Facebook friends in contests. Are you smarter than Mike Tyson?

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. If you think about it, in a multi-player game, for example, you have a very limited vocabulary for interaction. In the real world, you pick up an object, and you can hand it to seomeone else.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

As part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenue, customer service, and similar topics. Being able to replace those with software really streamlines things, and automates their jobs, so they are not so boring.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

As part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenue, customer service, and similar topics. Being able to replace those with software really streamlines things, and automates their jobs, so they are no so boring.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly. I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

5 and will include sneak peaks of the company’s Fall Edit Sale; industry experts for in-studio demos on fashion, beauty, fitness and hair; an expansion of the company’s produced FabFitFun TV content; and a game show called “the Fab Challenge”, where viewers can compete to win prizes. . 24 to Oct.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. But it seemed to work. I spent one hour with them.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I had never thought about being an entrepreneur. I didn''t think about going to college either. I just thought about wanting to have food every single day. I thought about hiring, and I thought about whenever I was hiring designers at my old design firm, I hated hiring because I had a full time job. Growing up.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

October 16th is our Demo Day, when they will share what they do, what they've accomplished, and the beginning of the next chapter for their companies. You see a lot of news about the Space Force, about going back to the moon, and investments in our lunar gateway. So how did you get into this? Matt Kozlov: That's a good question.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. There is nothing that will focus the mind more than not wanting to be on stage with a demo that bombs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. But for the group of people who are always talking about doing it but never do, this sole act of being willing to jump ship separates “wantrepreneurs” from entrepreneurs. ” **. Of course the naysayers are out again.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

One of the biggest areas where the cloud is transforming business is in small and medium sized businesses--where suddenly, companies are able to leverage software which wouldn''t be available, or are too costly for them to implement individually, but where the cloud access suddenly makes it affordable and easy. What does Kareo do?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. The posting resulted in 40points and about 30comments. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. Distribution.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We caught up with Ken Button , the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about why the startup already has signed up such customers as California Pizza Kitchen, Obvious Ventures, Fandango, Greenspire, and others to the service. We have been around software for a long time. What is ContractSafe?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We spoke with Idris Manley , founder of NativeTung, last week, to hear more about the company. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. Idris Manley: I have almost fifteen years in the software industry. Finally, can people use the software now? What is NativeTung?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Thank you to the supporters who told their colleagues and friends about the event, to our attendees for the attention towards the center of the room, to our supporting sponsors, our Spotlight judges, and to Bill Gross, our inspirational keynote speaker for the evening. Bill received his B.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2013

To do that, they have built the world’s most comprehensive parking database in more than 25,000 worldwide locations, collecting and aggregating data about both on-street and off-street parking. Through its efforts and partnerships, ParkMe expects to improve navigation by fundamentally changing the way drivers search for parking.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

Think about it: If you get an email that says, “Hey, Sarah, I wanted to ask for a small bit of help …” or even “Sarah, I’m hosting an event on Feb 17th and I’d like to ask if you could make it” you feel it’s a personal appeal to you. Any sociologist can tell you that.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

As the judging went on, everyone took the time to chat amongst themselves about their projects, experience at the event, and waited in anticipation of who would get the big check for $3000. The coolest part about these products was that most of the were live working demos. Product Design. Development.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2010

A typical beginning package for a small company costs about $4 thousand a year, and covers a number of forms of liability both premises and product as well as employee use of self-owned cars for work, theft, employee dishonesty and more. Sorry about that.) We do not think of these unless someone points them out.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

We spoke with two of the founder of K5Launch, Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, to learn more about their efforts to start up its accelerator here. We end with a demo day, where the graduate companies from the accelerator will present to investors. What is K5Launch? All of our mentors are investors as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Still unsure about your weekend plans? Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm. Well for all the coders out there why not take your chances at $4k!

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

This tool is suitable for organizations that want to capture high-quality leads from among their website visitors — be it for capturing consulting inquiries, demo requests, or webinar signups. Webinar Software – ClickMeeting. Read more about lead generation tips at TechCo. Lead Capture Tool – Leadformly.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

Its that time of the year again folks and Silicon Beach Fest is about to be in full swing! Silicon Beach uniquely features startup and Hollywood entertainment speakers at panels, parties, hackathon, demo day, startup showcase, and more events, June 19-22, 2013 in Los Angeles.

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