TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The world’s top tech companies have heavily invested in AR/VR and are persistent in broadcasting the technologies’ potential to blur the lines of how consumers interact with the digital world. Beyond the tech titans, it’s the small startups that are dialing into what’s missing in the ecosystem right now.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

One of the biggest changes besides to the design on both was the addition of wireless charging using QI technology. Just as the new iPhones have, the Omnia uses QI technology to let you charge your iPhone 6 and iPhone 7, but you must use a special cover for it to work. How did their backwards compatibility hack work out?

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

The trucking industry, as you mention, isn't great about technology. There's not a lot of technology in this industry, and even text messaging can be advanced technology for them. It's designed to meet their needs, so it quickly got traction, without a lot of marketing dollars. Lidia Yan: You're right. We're hiring.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2016

CEO, David Hanson, American robotics designer and researcher created Sophia in the likes of Hollywood legend, Audrey Hepburn and his lovely wife. Hanson Robotics uses a combination of Alphabet’s Google chrome voice recognition technology and other tools for speech processing. Sophia’s Secret Sauce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Put your customer at the top, rather than technology. For young consumers today, it may be Instagram or Snapchat, while B2B offerings should take a hard look at LinkedIn and other business forums. My advice is to keep it simple but memorable, and pick something you can highlight with pictures and videos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). Shape your business by design, not by default. This includes how you find leads, close clients, and minimize free work or rework. Picking a niche is another good way to focus.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

One of the defining characteristics of product design is that reducing friction of a given feature/function drives usage of that feature/function. It will be interesting to see if any new startups can compete against the industry giants in picture and video sharing: Instagram, Vine, FaceBook, and SnapChat.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

All this is by design, per the vision of Atom Factory founder Troy Carter. Each mentor spoke for nearly an hour to the entire group, answered questions, and sat with each company for one-on-one mentoring.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. He wanted to bring the same level of technology focus and energy that Mayor Bloomberg had brought to New York City.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. The best designed mobile apps use the accelerometer, the camera, map integration, location, contact book integration, QR codes and so on. Think about Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. My thesis is that it will become a major I/O computing metaphor or as this field is sometimes referred to HCI ( human-computer interaction ).

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