socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. There''s a lot of people looking to provide mobile ads to app developers. Why do developers use your tools? We were onboarding developers at GDC last week. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. It’s easy to invest in today’s momentum categories.

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). The final piece is online coaching, which allows people, 7 days a week, to click and talk to a professional development coach, and help them go through questions, answer things like what should by resume look like.

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. How did you get into this? So, it's quite new.

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SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools. We're only using our money to pay developers.

Startup 140

Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. entrepreneur interview campaign star videos digital fullscreen crowdfunding crowd hollywood content youtube video online tubestart holm josef'

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

After all, if your VCs won’t help you get access to potential buyers or business development partners – what will they do? Helping with a Job Opportunity / Career / Information Interview. It falls into 2 categories: 1. I know the individual well and they’re wanting information interviews to find a good home.

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Email Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 359

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Mickie Rosen: There were obviously a number of ways to develop and roll this out. But why we decided to incubate this one, is we looked at the category to see what we could find in terms of early stage companies, executing against what we had identified--and we didn't find any out there. What was behind that decision? READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been your favorite part about developing the company ShopperSeeks?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

GRP Partners 88

GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. How big is YP? READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. The obvious positive is that there is a lot less time spent raising money and more time spent on building the business at a critical stage in the company’s development.

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Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

If you develop something novel that catches a spark you’ll have the world gunning for you over night. It means a welter weight who wants to fight in the heavy-weight category. If for nothing else you want all of the talented people you interview to spread the gospel whether they join or not. Increase your number of interviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we do have great technology developers. You don’t.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. How big is YP.com? READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that? We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. generation lead marketing online startup interview consumertrack rossman brett' READ MORE>>.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. We provide primarily enterprise, category, point-, and sit in between the legacy guys and mobile guys.

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Entertainment Sales Mobile Startup 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

There are many women out there working in philanthropy and extracurricular in charities, who have capital to contribute, and who can get more involved in the sustainable development side of things. It''s a very broad category of investments, which have more than just financial performance as the main objective. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. Sameer has several years of experience in product, and Chris is an outstanding developer, engineer, and architect. We have complementary skill sets. READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. How does Giftagram work?

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system. One of thing we did, is we became a MCN.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2010

Mobile Roadie , the Southern California based startup that helps anyone create and develop an Android and iPhone apps announced today Mobile Roadie Pro. The new CMS also supports multiple content categories, global search, and new landscape views. They have expanded the product offering from one CMS package to three.

Mobile 40

Mobile RSS Southern California Content 40

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

My life has been spend around shopping research, retail development, business development, and understanding how people shop in stores, category management, and merchandising. A lot of the time, I had to do consumer research, and had to analyze how people buy in a category--whether that's by brand, by price, etc.

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Research Statistics Pepperdine Sites 100

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Innovative.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2009

One of those companies is LEHR (www.golehr.com), which develops and markets lawn and garden equipment which uses propane--not gasoline--for power. That's the only category where 2-strokes are still dominant. Tags: propane cleantech green entrepreneur retail garden lawn lehr herzer bernardo startup interview.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

We focus on the creative content of TV advertising, and we've developed a very powerful, scoring algorithm which we call Ace Scores, which rates advertising effectiveness, and deliver that data to our customers--advertisers and agencies--through a software-as-a-service offering. We're really revolutionizing TV ad creative.

Advertising 100

Advertising Palomar Startup Customer 100

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

Our inventory represents specialty lodging, with multiple bedrooms in a unit, with kitchens and living rooms--all in the value oriented category within the leisure market, as opposed to a five star luxury hotel. Eric Hovanec: Web developers, operations folks, and we have openings in sales and account management.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Richard recently published a new book, The Soul Of A Deal , talking about his experience with deal making and interviewing such others as J.J.Abrams, Deepak Chopra, Peter Guber, Reid Hoffman, Penn Jillette and many others on their own experiences. So, what I did is I sat down and interviewed people like J.J.

Startup 147

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review 147

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

The problem in developing a character rig--which is a model character in a computer environment--is a complex, custom process. There's a broad set of categories, and even others we hadn't anticipated. Tags: dimensions darwin animation nilles brian software avatar evolver interview. and participate in revenue share.

Tool 113

Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. Our mobile phones are capable of doing almost anything these days. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Seek advice from a mentor.

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), com), which is developing analytics software which leverages mobile phones for data on customers. It's mostly food and food sector companies using our data to make better decisions.

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Startup Culver City Competition Customer 113

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Our technology, instead of having your remember a password, instead has you remember three categories of images. It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. That might be a car, boat, or an airplane.

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