socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

We wanted to bring the beauty of data visualization, of actionable insights to people in a very easy, very fast, very simple but very well designed way. Every good entrepreneur dreams really big, and we're planning on having 1 percent of 37 million brands on our platform. We said, in addition to being B2B, can we also do B2C?

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. First, you’ll need a platform. It’s much easier to build an audience in social blogging platforms the way you do in Twitter or Facebook. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood. Kudos to the rockstar developers and designer in my team. There were many cool apps created over that weekend.

Hollywood 82

Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Photos…the final frontier. from Carnegie Mellon University. Much bigger.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! Given this shift in web app development, quite a few client side frameworks written in JavaScript have emerged.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As an example of how dumb they were (for those that don’t remember) whenever you changed one field in a browser-designed program the entire screen had to refresh. We designed our code and tested it in a Firefox browser and once we had working code we then had to figure out how to make the clunky Internet Explorer work.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. It was slow. It was hard to use.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. The problem with most of the share badges out there is that they load a Javascript file from an external source which can take several seconds on a bad day. Thanks for the comment!

RSS 29

RSS HTML JavaScript Doc 29