Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

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. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.

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Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The event features an interactive networking roundtable at which more than 30 venture capitalists from California, who will talk with local entrepreneurs about deal flow and the types of investments they're looking to fund. This event series is designed to help investors and entrepreneurs engage with one another.

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LAVA Southern California SoCalTech Education 133

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. Read more about virtual reality trends. Read more about virtual reality trends. And UploadVR was born.

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Startup Web Development Design Education 70

Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Learn about strategies and secure network solutions that can protect tech startups against the most common types of cyberattacks. . Educate team members about how to recognize and respond to phishing attempts. Reach out to our team , and we can discuss your security needs and solutions designed to address any vulnerabilities.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Like a true entrepreneur, even though she was young, she took control of her life and pursued an alternative education. Bruce also experienced a challenging time at school, struggling with the limitations of a 1970’s public school education which emphasized conformity over creativity. [3:27] Self Taught Is Well Taught.

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Sales Education Startup Class 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

We spoke with founder Manrique Brenes --a veteran of such companies as Skype and Cisco--to hear about Blossom''s products, plus its link to such companies at Vizio. What your product all about? It''s a web based controller, which gives you direct access to the system with their phones or browser.

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Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It was good to see someone else who actively thinks about the world from the user’s perspective.” He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. “Great presentation. ” -Testimonial from an attendee at the L.A.

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Culver City Design Content Writing 105

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

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 have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Open to potential career pivoters and professionals of all levels, the panel consisted of the following panelists, whom entered their positions from backgrounds ranging from business to engineering to design. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. Web analytics, pretty clear. Web analytics, pretty clear.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups. Oh, yeah.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. We spoke with co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Amini , to hear more about what the firm is doing, how Bushnell got involved, as well as the firm's unique outlook and dedication to giving back through social entrepreneurship.

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . If you find one, you become a company.

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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). We caught up with Gregg Spiridellis, one of the founders of JibJab, to hear about Storybots. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Can you talk about that?

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Content Startup Screening Education 224

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

“[It] is super competitive and great for companies looking to not only gain exposure but to learn from and see the breath of other startups and founders in the space,” said Darlene Gillard, Director of Community and Partner of digitalundivided, about the Startup of the Year competition. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 138

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2012

We’ve all have heard the great expression, “it’s all about who you know” more times that we can remember. Dancer, Fashion Designer, Production Assistant…anything. As you can see on my profile I picked, entrepreneur, writer, and web developer – all of which description me and what I do.

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Social Network Startup Education Web Development 106

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

We spoke with CEO and co-founder John Tabis about how TheBouqs believes there''s an opening for a modern online flower delivery service, because none of the existing players are catering to the new generation of consumers. It''s all about being very simple, very honest, and very straightforward in how you treat the customer.

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Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

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. The courses include, app building, web development, Online Entrepreneurship and much more.

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Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The city is viewed so favourably as a hotpot of tech talent that it was chosen to host this year’s Web Summit for the second year in a row. Speaking about the move, he said: “What it really reminded me of, without sounding very old, was 2010 when I started the Tech City initiative – for the same reason.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach?” Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We spoke to Daryl about the firm, the founders, and their use of Amazon Web Services as its back end. Can you talk about the acceptance of electronic signatures and any legal issues there? And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? Explain to me how your service works?

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 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). We caught up with Gregg Spiradellis, one of the founders of JibJab, to hear about Storybots. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Can you talk about that?

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2015

Let me explain; To be truly good as a user experience expert you need to understand how to do design, how to code your own designs and if you can, have a basic understanding of how to program. There are so many angles and things to consider and you need to make educated tradeoffs. Why So Many Skills? Why so many skills?

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Google Design Software Review Education 40

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. We sat down and spoke with Milo Sindell, one of the founders of the firm, to learn more about how the firm came about and what it's trying to accomplish.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

For those who haven’t heard of what Startup Weekend is all about, it’s building a company on STEROIDS! From visualization to conception, and actually taking the product to market, a company usually takes about 1-2 years to create. Of the 150+ participants, about 45 people pitched that night. We had exactly 54 hours!

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Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2012

We’ve all heard the great expression, “it’s all about who you know” more times than we can remember. Dancer, Fashion Designer, Production Assistant…anything. As you can see on my profile I picked, entrepreneur, writer, and web developer – all of which describe me and what I do.

Social Network 49

Social Network Startup Education Web Development 49

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We caught up with Kim Folsom , the firm's founder and CEO, to learn more about the company. The specific experience of the consumer is a video instruction guide, which is either on a manufacturer's web site, a retailer's website, or on a smart phone. ShowUHow is venture backed and already has signed major retailers and manufacturers.

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Guide Training Platform Product 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Personalize a simple web site. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. For additional tips and advice, and information about Visa''s small business solutions, follow @VisaSmallBiz and visit [link]. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

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Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

Its mission is to connect, educate and promote online innovators that are coming out of L.A.’s And you know, there companies I have never heard of that did a $7 million dollar round I would have never known about if it wasn’t for Built In L.A.,” that has quietly soft launched this January. Built In L.A. has to offer startups.

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Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Platform 105

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

But you can get to this new level of understanding when you integrate that data back together and that’s what Cojoin is all about. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications.

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 24, 2016

If you want to gain and keep the respect of your audience, work with a professional graphic designer or marketing team to create a logo and any other necessary graphics specifically for each platform you wish to use. Over 500,000 parents and educators follow and share this blog’s content on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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Social Media Media Content Guide 40

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

GumGum’s goal is to continue educating the market and selling the product – they’re expecting 400% growth next year. Prior to our conversation with Ophir, we also chatted with Tony Winders (GumGum’s Senior VP of marketing) about facial recognition and image recognition. Implementing image and facial recognition.

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Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Denise Garciano has led PacSun in discovering who is talking about their brand online, who their customers are, and how to genuinely reach out and engage with friends and fans. His specialty combines social media with search engine marketing to build large media audiences on the web. Scott Tilton loopd.com. . .

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Social Media Social Network Media Writing 75