socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Online job search site Indeed is taking aim at Southern California's high tech market, with the launch of its Indeed Prime in the market. Indeed said it specifically launched the service in Los Angeles due to the high demand for techical professionals in the market. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review Angel 140

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. It is what Seriously was designed to do. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures' This is so clearly our future.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 374

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

El Segundo-based iRise , the developer of enterprise application prototyping tools, is taking on the iPhone app market, saying today that it has launched a new visualization product called iRise Studio MX, which allows users to create iPhone app prototypes. iRise said the new private beta of the product is free.

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El Segundo Screening Tool Design 160

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2013

In West Hollywood, Los Angeles last night, Werner Herzog’s new documentary, “From One Second to the Next” premiered at the Silver Screen Theater located within MOCA’s Pacific Design Center followed with Q&A from the legendary director himself. ◄ Back.

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Design West Hollywood Screening Hollywood 98

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We thought, if we could tap into this market, my God, this business opportunity is a 100 times bigger than our eCard business,” said Gregg Spiridellis. If you can find a market that you believe in, craft your product around that market. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen. Gregg Spiridellis pondered. “We

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. And…they have opened up their API for all of you clever developers to create the amazing interactive second screen apps of the future. It is essentially a super large screen pad. What does that mean?

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Awareness Years ago Upfront Ventures rented out a movie theater of 350 people in Santa Monica to screen the movie, “ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap ,” an important movie by Robin Hauser and we invited senior members of many local tech firms to attend. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!”

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For Oliver, that was when he and his partner were looking at IVF as a way to screen for the BRCA1 gene from her embryos after she found out that she was a carrier. ” Once Oliver started doing research into the market and discovered that there were only 460 fertility clinics in the U.S. Bakersfield, Calif.

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Lancaster Screening Startup Los Angeles 201

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The power of large screen real estate. I think it’s a beautifully designed product that is also tremendously useful and focused. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base. The power of a keyboard. Fred’s post was right. I also love Batch.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

So far, I’ve covered how to decide which type of app you’re looking to create and how to use your market research to decide what features you want your app to have. One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. Sally sees the login screen, prompting her to fill in her email address & password.

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Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice.

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Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Design 158

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Many “tech companies” now have green screens. And costume & set designers. I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. And make-up artists.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 314

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I’m challenged getting developers to work with me when I can’t pay them market wages. Poor machine, screen, connection, chair. If your developers have a better machine, screen, internet connection, or chair at home than they do in the office, then there’s a problem. The market is great for developers. That’s correct.

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Develop Development CTO Coach CTO Hire 280

Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

What you can’t eat, sell to you neighbors or at a local farmers market. Qwerty is here to stay, but the touch screen keyboard needs a serious redesign. Why do we even need to touch the screen? We need a keyboard that is above the screen, projected, with bigger buttons. Imagine if this caught on. Keyboard idea 1.

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Ideas Screening IBM IBM 117

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What price?

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 348

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

It makes it easier to persuade others to join you, it alerts other angels & VCs that you’re a company to be on their radar screen, it helps potential customers know that you may be worth doing business with and it builds you up to announce other milestones down the line. So you’ve taken two stories and collapsed them into one.

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Startup Funding News Press 356

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The mythology of StoryBots, is that they are these little creature who live behind our screens. Gregg Spiridellis: We've got four products in the market right now. Gregg Spiridellis: We've got four products in the market right now. They are designed so that parents will love them too. What's the big vision for StoryBots?

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Content Startup Screening Education 224

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We thought, if we could tap into this market, my God, this business opportunity is a 100 times bigger than our eCard business,” said Gregg Spiridellis. If you can find a market that you believe in, craft your product around that market. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen. Gregg Spiridellis pondered. “We

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. He told me that when the markets soured they were no longer hot. The reality is that the market has changed and I need to change to the new realities. .&# They know instinctually how customers buy and how to excite them.

Entrepreneur 306

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Customer 306

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What price?

Startup 362

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 362

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

Marketing 82

Marketing Demand Startup Customer 82

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

One thing I liked in the design is how they treated completion of the profile: It's now complete and you just dismiss it from that area. Notice also that on the user screen (Alan Edgett), you can give a badge, vote for Alan, request an endorsement, send a message or give an endorsement. This one pushes maybe just a little too hard.

Examples 331

Examples Startup Course Networking 331

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

One thing I liked in the design is how they treated completion of the profile: It's now complete and you just dismiss it from that area. Notice also that on the user screen (Alan Edgett), you can give a badge, vote for Alan, request an endorsement, send a message or give an endorsement. This one pushes maybe just a little too hard.

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Examples Startup Course Networking 323

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. It's always in your face, and always on screen. We're different, as our application is designed not just for executive management, but for users.

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Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. What that means, is we have a software tool, used primarily by companies who are putting on events for marketing reasons. We work with them on an annual basis, around the world, and help to power their events and experiential marketing. It's a marketing experience.

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Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

We have combined the best lifestyle features of all the smartwatches in the market and put them all into one smartwatch–the Rock. Rockin 9 App- This patented app allows for up to 9 message notifications, all on one screen. Its features include at-a-glance notifications, one-screen functionality, and a sleek professional design.

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Patents Screening Design Activity 97

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

We want to create something that serves a purpose, has a unique design, and is farily simple to use, and where people can understand what that app does. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. So you're making multiple applications?

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Is there a screening process or criteria for firms to use the facilities? They screen and score companies based on their application, and if that looks good, they come in for a face-to-face interview. It's designed to be very open, and basically foster collaboration and working together. So, that't the foundation.

Incubator 212

Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. So, I switched to a degree in business and marketing. What's your product, and what is it used for?

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 174

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

Car companies spend a significant amount of money on superficial design features, including the timbre of the sound emitted when a car door is shut. Because many consumers value design features over those which impact performance. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

SaaS 124

SaaS Startup Software Review Development Team Review 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis).

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Because we want to get into production, marketing, and sales, right now we're listing on Fundable.com. We have a contest for people to design what the case will look like, and we're using Fundable to raise $10,000 to give to the winner. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this? There also automatic converters.

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Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The dynamism of web design ascertains that trends should keep varying to the better with changing times. The changes are usually due to improvements in previous designs to suit current tastes and preferences. The introduction of live photos on latest mobile phones has lead to cinemagraphs coming into the forefront of designers minds.

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Web Design Design Web Technical Review 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2014

No other company competes with Google Glass on the augmented reality (AR) market, but there are plenty of startups looking to take a bite at the market. That was just a matter of integrating some electronics and making a design and putting it all together,” says Kayvan Mirza, CEO of Optinvent.

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Google Screening Startup Pricing 89

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 357