TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. It's important to us. Easy stuff should be easy.

Web 200

Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

How does one come up with the right idea to start a company? Do VCs really take risks on ground-breaking ideas any longer or do they just fund businesses once there is proof of traction? As leaders we intuitively know that while basic skills in math, science, reading & writing are necessary — they are not sufficient.

Design 150

Design Ideas Startup Writing 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. At 12.30pm in the afternoon the idea to create the video was hatched. think Apple.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Zach Zalon: Super Hi-Fi is a platform to help music experience companies, like digital music services, to deliver much more compelling, much higher quality music experiences to their audiences. We ended up building a lot of digital music platforms. Everyone was excited about the idea, but no one signed up. What is Super Hi-Fi?

Startup 113

Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Zack Zalon: Super Hi-Fi is a platform to help music experience companies, like digital music services, to deliver much more compelling, much higher quality music experiences to their audiences. We ended up building a lot of digital music platforms. Everyone was excited about the idea, but no one signed up. What is Super Hi-Fi?

Startup 100

Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The platform enhances the process of turning ideas into entrepreneurial ventures and growing startups through social collaboration. How did you come up with the idea? The idea of Miigle was born when trying to solve two problems: 1) How can the process of turning ideas into something concrete be made easier and quicker?

Startup 101

Startup Ideas Platform Entrepreneur 101

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. How fast do you think the market for HTML5 games will develop?

Activision 217

Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

You have security wherever you go because you have become big entrepreneurs and are giving talks all over to up and coming entrepreneurs and app developers. Co-founder/developer: Chris Johnson, Computer Science PhD Candidate at MIT. We have a configurable alarm that reminds people to write down their dream when they wake up.

Template 82

Template Social Media Media Research 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. Find potential partners.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. There's a lot more intricacy going into those algorithms and how the preferences work, but that's the general idea. That's a great question.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? ” Can you imagine that ever getting inches in the press? .”

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

It might work for you or at least you can use some of my ideas to find ones that work better for you. With no platform to really help me with “food coaching” I had to be this coach for myself. If you’re not able to identify your bad choices and develop a plan you’re never going to fix them. I literally developed self talk.

Coach 538

Coach Startup Guide Journal 538

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Where did the idea come from? Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business.

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. Find potential partners.

Blogging 104

Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. Enter Burstly.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. He was independently working on a collaboration platform for writers, and eventually we all got on a phone together, and it clicked. What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

Twitter was the most unique social sharing platform that had emerged in my experience because it unintentionally innovated on a constraint of 140 characters (initially so that it could send messages as SMS, which it self had a size constraint). I have no idea. The “half life” was very short. Will that continue? Will new players emerge?

Social Media 240

Social Media Snapchat Media Blogging 240

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

You’ve got a great idea for an app. How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications. You’re a startup.

SaaS 90

SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. The idea emerged from that real life pain in the market, and as we like to say, we've grown incrementally from there.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about.

Gogii 310

Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Richard grew up just outside of Toronto, entering the tech scene a few years ago, co-founding Ratehub.ca , a mortgage comparison and lead platform, with her technical brother; who left Microsoft Canada for the project. I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene.

Startup 109

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Users can also endorse another platform professional to recommend them as an expert.

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Especially for their stage of development. Other deals. It sucked. It still does.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. Find potential partners.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. How did you guys end up working together on investments? Pretty much the top four carriers here.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. When was it launched?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. We are a platform that facilitates the most important conversations of people’s lives! The calendar, payment and live-video are all facilitated through our platform.

Mentor 94

Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Proven was developed into two apps, one for job seekers and one for employers seeking candidates. The original idea was how to get jobs for people using text messages. We have been able to develop a good product. Developing a product that changed people’s lives feels like a positive thing. What led you to make Proven?

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

I pitched an idea that was voted in the top 12 but couldn’t form a complete team. The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. So, I teamed up with a group of developers that showed interest in working on my idea after the weekend.

Startup 100

Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

And many short-termists will think it’s a bad idea. Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios).

Netflix 329

Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Richard grew up just outside of Toronto, entering the tech scene a few years ago, co-founding Ratehub.ca , a mortgage comparison and lead platform, with her technical brother; who left Microsoft Canada for the project. I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene.

Startup 56

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 56

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I also spent lots of time as an entrepreneur, looking at great ideas, trying to understand the dynamics of businesses, all the way through fundraising, seeing how people see it on the other side of the fence, which gives me a leg up. Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100