socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time. READ MORE>>.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The event will feature a panel of some of SoCal’s brightest entrepreneurs who have received funding from TechStars, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Idealab and will be moderated by upStart.LA’s Co-Founder, Dan Dato.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. What''s the idea behind FieldLevel?

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Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. The more we explored business development opportunities, the more it became clear that there was a much broader and synergistic opportunity to combine with what TeleNav was doing. But, do they really help?

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Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

.” More and more startup competitions are popping up in the relatively young and thriving startup tech scene of Southern California. Most entrepreneurs in a startup struggle to get that initial capital needed to execute development of their great idea.

Competition 65

Competition Networking TCVN Southern California 65

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. The methodology is in place, developers are in place, and we have a team that can build companies quickly, in just three or four months.

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Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Rahul Sonnad: Geodelic develops a system that lets you publish location-based information.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. The company was founded in 2012, developed by an all-Trojan team and has already made a big splash with this first-of-its-kind travel website.

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Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza and drinks!

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

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. My background, is I''ve been designing and developing accessories for the top carriers in the country, companies like Sprint and Verizon, as well as others.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. So, we hired a guy off of Craiglist to build some software for us, and who eventually became our VP of Engineering.

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Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

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. Gold Sponsor. .

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors. Soon after CoFoundersLab was accepted into D.C.’s

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

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. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies.

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. We heard form Alex to learn how SocialEngine was bootstrapped to $1.4M

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. It's very hard to build something like a biotech in four months, because of the research and development. How long is your program?

Startup 254

Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

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. Gold Sponsor. .

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Sure, there are some fun things you can create quickly on platforms like Facebook that may get viral uptake. However, my belief is that while certain aspects of technology development have come down in cost and it's easy to build small applications quickly, as the scope of the effort increases, costs do.

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Venture Capital Startup Incubator Examples 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. PuddleWorks – PuddleWorks is developing interactive mobile games and leveraging these products and capabilities to develop a powerful franchise. the startup scene really is booming in la!

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. I’d hate to frame Nate’s answer into a key phrase so it’s better to watch that section of the video.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279