socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Interested in improving your skills in web design or photography while on the go? Fans of online, video site lynda.com now have the option to access that company''s extensive library of video tutorials on the go, through a new Android app, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2015

lynda.com offers up an online education site where users can learn about a huge library of topics, ranging from everything from web and graphic design software to business topics, 3D animation, and more. education content equity private funding capital venture lynda' lynda.com said it was advised by Allen & Co.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 19, 2019

Mullenax said the Huron website is designed to be friendly and educational for men who don’t know a lot about personal care, but at the same time it isn’t “forcing this guy into a subscription mechanism,” and instead allows them to “come to the site and just transact on a bottle of body wash.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2014

Lynda.com , the online video education site which offers up a large library of video tutorials in computer software, business skills, design, and other areas, is in a big expansion today, saying that it has started offering up its products in Southeast Asia.

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Web Design Course Startup Design 157

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2012

Ojai, California-based Lynda.com , the online education site providing online training on a variety of software, ranging from PhotoShop to AutoCAD and much more which was founded by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, is now topping $70M in annual revenues, according to reports. READ MORE>>.

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Report Southern California SoCalTech Education 173

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Wish you could design and develop your own mobile games, but don't know how to write software? The new educational site is free to users. No problem! READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool.

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Ideas Outsource Development Outsource Course 118

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool.

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Customer Custom Startup Outsource Development 167

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We noticed that many of those sites were not pre-populating the site with content, were not drawing from external channels, and were not starting conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. We have some great mentors now.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

This event series is designed to help investors and entrepreneurs engage with one another. This program provides education about the capital raising process, perspectives on the current market and useful tools and insights into the current state of the venture capital business. Register for the event at the LAVA web site today!

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LAVA Southern California SoCalTech Education 133

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The non-profit, Code.org is partnering with Computer Science Education week to lead a massive effort to raise awareness around computer science education this December. Among the education partners selected to provide courseware by Code.org is my own non-profit “Teaching Kids Programming” (part of the MONA Foundation ).

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Java Education Southern California Resource 85

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The design could hint at what Lime wants to do with its retail store branding. Educate them on the benefits, educate them on safety, and provide helmets.” Glassdoor shows that the store manager job was posted more than 30 days ago, and the site estimates the potential salary at $41,000 to $74,000.

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Santa Monica Startup Technical Review Education 221

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

Kelsey Doorey: "Vow To Be Chic is the first company to offer designer bridesmaid dress rentals. How will you balance designer dresses that wear out quickly with sturdy, fashion-unfriendly apparel? That said, we are working with our designers to create dresses in fabrics and styles that are more durable and will have a longer life.

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Design Customer Custom Satisfaction 208

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? So Nolan is behind the design of the games? What does Anti-AgingGames do?

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There''s this thing called graphic design. After graduating from college, Don began his career at a small design firm. "So So I worked at a great design firm called, Agnew Moyer Smith and there''s two great guys there. If you want a job here you''re going to have to design websites.''. It''s commercial art.

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Startup Entrepreneur Design Santa Barbara 250

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Guidance, which provides services for building ecommerce web sites, said that Caltech's IRC. which provides an online catalog of executive education courses, used the firm for a web site overhaul. Marina Del Rey-based Guidance Solutions said Monday that the firm has signed on Caltech's Industrial Relations Center as a customer.

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Marina Del Rey CalTech Web Education 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Guidance, which provides services for building ecommerce web sites, said that Caltech's IRC. which provides an online catalog of executive education courses, used the firm for a web site overhaul. Marina Del Rey-based Guidance Solutions said Monday that the firm has signed on Caltech's Industrial Relations Center as a customer.

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Marina Del Rey CalTech Software Web 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The site is the brainchild of Tracy DiNunzio , who took her experience running RecycledBride.com and is now applying the same concept to women's clothing. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. RecycledBride really has become a popular site. It was a crash course.

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Startup Education Acquisition Funding 236

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2010

The categories are made up of "Advisors", "Feedback Needed", "Co-founder Wanted", "Rants And Raves", "Education", "Looking for Funding", "Office Space" and "Services", and "Startup Jobs". Now if Craigslist would just hire these guys to re-design their site all would be right in the world.

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Startup Help Newsletter Email 89

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site? We have a really good team that brought this site up.

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UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

If you already have a strong customer base, create a brief survey to help you determine what social media sites they’re using and how to reach them in a targeted way. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Assess your target customer demographics.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Simply, Sgrouples is designed to allow its users to share exactly what they want with exactly who they want without having anybody else see it. All users are protected from things like tracking, stalking and spying by advertisers inside of the site. As part of our privacy platform, we don’t discuss the exact membership of the site.

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Social Network Networking Sites Ideas 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

There''s no continual upsell like you might encounter on other floral sites. However, our users and target audience are really the younger, web-savvy, college educated, and very technologically comfortable consumers. We''re designing for the iPad and iPhone generation. The third part of this is the subscription service we offer.

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Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more. In addition to all of that, Stacksocial helps people discover their inner geek by offerings educational courses too. Considering that they’ve been around for just over a year, Stacksocial’s library is quite diverse.

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Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. They are designed so that parents will love them too.

Content 224

Content Startup Screening Education 224

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Good Design = Beautiful/Cool Design.

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. “The Meebo MiniBar sits on the bottom of your browser and is the social layer connecting people on sites including TV Guide and TMZ. For Meebo 1.3%

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

Which is why some senior tech leaders (that include Tony Pritzker , Howard Marks and Josh Berman ) banded together to bring the community online through a new site called Built In L.A. Its mission is to connect, educate and promote online innovators that are coming out of L.A.’s that has quietly soft launched this January.

Startup 105

Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Platform 105

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Be the first to disrupt an existing market space. Being first is always important.

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Netflix Social Media Competition Customer 54

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. We found out that sites like Eat24 and Grubhub are portals. We started our services in August of 2012.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

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. Essentially, it guides the author through a four step process to design, build, test, and publish their creation. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). It wouldn't be a twenty two minute television show, where you'd site down at some time to watch. They are designed so that parents will love them too.

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138