SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

It is surprising to find out about what both web designers and marketers often miss, which are key ingredients of what your audience can see and not see on the website. With our panel of experts, we will cover the basics of usability and the role this concept plays in making these efforts successful with LIVE CASE STUDIES.

Case Study 100

Case Study Web Design Study Web 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

On the flip side, we attract those candidates, based on their affinity group, such as Blacks in Tech, Latinos In UI and UX design, women enggineers, and other affinity groups that attract talent, making them accesible to companies that are looking to hire for diversity. It's a community of underrepresented professionals.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Startup Platform Resource 140

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. You are going to “study” the details before making a decision. Yeah, sure. Wait, there’s more!

Funding 336

Funding Venture Capital Startup Email 336

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Deone Sulgatti: It's really the industry's first service and matching platform, designed specifically to connect Americans 65 plus with skills-based opportunities. I was consulting for an architecture firm, and essentially helping to recruit an individual to manage our firm's design team. What is Tengia?

Help 100

Help Startup Design Resource 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

According to one study, there were over 835,000 people working out of coworking spaces last year. If you are someone like me who runs a startup digital web design agency in New York and has spent several years working remotely out of your home office, then the move to a coworking space can be a difficult decision to make.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Study Web Design Startup 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Simply defining yourself as a marketing specialist, designer, or project leader minimizes the stigma of the consultant role. It is not limited to the realm of the top executive or board of directors, who could bring in consultants for studies and analysis. Promote yourself with a title to match your expertise.

Social Media 56

Social Media Software Review Customer Custom 56

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth.

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

And more embarassingly to me Garindra Prahandono gave me this link to an article written by the guru of web design, Jakob Nielsen about the 1/9/90 rule written back in 2006. It’s existed in every online community and multi-user service that has ever been studied. Design the product to accomodate needs of all three.

Technical Review 294

Technical Review Writing Content Sites 294

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

By having reputable people from reputable businesses listed in case studies, on the website with quotes and/or willing to take phone calls makes all the difference in the purchasing decision. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. Why Buy Now?

Sales 319

Sales Startup Platform Tips 319

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Professional user-friendly site design. Studies have shown that consumers gauge credibility in large part based on the appeal of the overall visual design, including layout, typography, font size, color schemes, no broken links, and correct language usage. Follow-up for customer satisfaction.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This was the first in her string of web properties. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do. After some encouragement from him she decided to launch her own website – Recycled Bride. If you want traffic you need to learn the tricks of the trade.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I was only able to create a team with non-technical business people and a designer. There were a few things that made building the team difficult. For one, most people came there as a team already.

Startup 99

Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

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. The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. We're using Elastic Beanstalk.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” Persistent?

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Once you start censoring the Web, you restrict the ability to imagine and innovate.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Simply, there are thousands of agencies, design shops and communications firms across the world, all. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. One, is this fund is really designed to pile onto its winners.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

This first video they did became viral and the CMO, Jeffrey Harmon , paved the way to create an entertaining brand web series called Diary of a Dirty Tongue. Here is a YouTube marketing case study they did. YouTube was not a hobby; it meant sales, it meant building customer relationships, it meant managing product inquires.

Dollar Shave Club 101

Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

His specialty combines social media with search engine marketing to build large media audiences on the web. Emily Goligoski is a Strategic Programs Manager with online publishing company Federated Media’s and writes about arts, culture and design innovation. Scott Tilton loopd.com. . . Emily Goligoski Federatedmedia.net. . .

Social Media 75

Social Media Social Network Media Writing 75

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

LIFT10: Workshop on Hacking Venture Capital - Fred Destin , May 7, 2010 This morning at the excellent LIFT Conference I gave a two hour workshop on " Hacking Venture Capital " designed to give entrepreneurs a hands-on experience of (a) pitching and (b) negotiating with detailed debrief and tricks of the trade. Should I Get My MBA?

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As mentioned above, many retailers think apps are a waste of time and money because they can build a responsive and adaptive mobile web presence. Apps are also able to send advertisements through push notifications, which a customer is 50 percent more likely to open a than a promotional email, according to this study by Responsys.

Mobile 40

Mobile Sites Customer Custom 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Ophir references a study that listed a striking statistic: 54% of all ads being shown aren’t actually being seen. LA is home-base for their design, publisher development, engineering, finance, and marketing teams. So where does Ophir see GumGum as web browsing moves towards mobile? Why the shift? Banner blindness.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

I studied it, and very much enjoyed it, but by the time I got to my fourth year of school, I figured out I really didn't want to be that engineer in the lab, designing microprocessors. I started with electrical engineering as an undergrad, because I was truly interested in math and science when I was 18.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

Amit Thakkar: During the process of designing and building LawMaker, we spend two years talking to and surveying thousands of Americans about their civic habits and feeling about political engagement. SB: What is the next step for the Web Platform as it continues to grow?

Platform 40

Platform Ideas Startup Statistics 40

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson: I was doing my graduate studies at the University of Washington, and was doing things in the field of activity recognition, which is recognizing sensors and getting computers to identifying what people are doing. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0 What's the business model behind this?

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Social Media IBM IBM 109

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study and other sources : Targeted marketing.

Startup 103

Startup Social Media IBM IBM 103

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. - Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 First Principles.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). and tips for buyers looking for logo design. Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Joel doesn’t think he could design software for something in which he doesn’t have expertise. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210