socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Platform G / Mindjolt. www.cocodot.com). www.sodahead.com). www.mindjolt.com).

Startup 178

Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Are you a content creator for the web? Juan Bruce: My background is in design engineering. I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, working for BMW''s technology office, and design firm Ideo. Most recently, we created a web series. How did you guys figure out what was needed for content creators?

Downey 215

Downey Content Help Startup 215

SoCal CTO

JULY 19, 2016

I’ve had lots of conversations with fellow CTOs about the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks. As part of this release we are making ASP.NET leaner, more modular, cross-platform, and cloud optimized. We’re introducing the new Kestrel web server that runs within your IIS host or behind another host process.

TechEmpower 150

TechEmpower Framework Startup Web 150

Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 31, 2020

By the end of 2020, an estimated 83% of company workloads will be hosted in the cloud, 1 and the average employee uses 36 cloud-based services daily, including file sharing and collaboration platforms 2. Upgrade Network Setup. Network setups optimized for flexible capacity include: .

Tips 59

Tips Networking Organization Southern California 59

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. We do the same thing on the web, making selling really easy. Rob Kramer: My partner and I had been developing apps and platforms for year, and had been Craiglist and eBay users, but only reluctantly.

Mobile 157

Mobile Los Angeles Web Southern California 157

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

Everyone thinks of Northern California as the place to do anything technology related, but for unique power users and entertainment enthusiasts like me, you realized that entertainment--my first love--is in Southern California. That''s why I moved here. It''s been a really good move. What''s the next big thing for you?

Entertainment 206

Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. Mobile Web America, Inc. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets. So there you have it. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

You''ve seen the company''s work in the Superbowl, on television, and on the web, all for big brands--but you might not know it came out of the crowdsourcing efforts of Tongal (www.tongal.com). James DeJulio: We''re a social content development platform. James DeJulio: It''s a really interesting, Southern California story.

Ideas 243

Ideas Content Startup Web 243

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Dinesh earned his B.S.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

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. Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Diamond Sponsor. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Which devices?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Which devices?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. Incubator: Amplify LA. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? Plus, sunshine.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

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. Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Diamond Sponsor. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Tech Coast Angels 80

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Los Angeles Santa Monica 80

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. It was a local, SoCal company right here in Manhattan Beach. Lunch.com was the platform to do all of that. on the web, how do you hope to stand out?

Content 204

Content Startup Sites Manhattan Beach 204

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What options do we have? Accounting?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We’re interested in being at the leading edge of how people search and explore the web based on images. So we’re targeting women and men, and aim to keep the content PG-13. Our mission is to create a dynamic platform with powerful tools that provide the most engaging user experience possible. What is your driving force, energy?

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. So how could we accomplish this, while maintaining the close alternative SXSW vibe we had last year?

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The Southern California locale benefits from its easy proximity to Silicon Valley, just an hours flight away, as well as from the many universities in the area, including Cal Tech, where Intel founder Gordon Moore went to school. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups? Lets start with the basics.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

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. You’re about halfway there but the next few steps differ depending on what platform your site uses. Adding it to my list… would make a great post, no?

RSS 29

RSS HTML JavaScript Doc 29

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But I don’t think so. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. They’re the place focused on design. They think design wins. Press the flesh.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. I prefer to start out via SQL so that the manipulations of the data are easy, although many large-scale systems eventually move to flat-files of some format. Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. Make sense?

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378