Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Technology pilots. Business commercialization.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Earlier this month, Los Angeles became the latest city to task its various departments with prepping a feasibility study for deploying new software and monitoring technologies to better account for its carbon footprint. Los Angeles has tried to address its carbon footprint in the past, but the efforts weren’t very successful.

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MAY 8, 2017

com) is using technology--mobile apps, telemedicine, and more--to overcome those and other challenges. What we are doing has the potential to allow companies to develop more, novel treatments, for conditions, more effectively. Belinda Tan: Most of our trials are Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. Mobile Computing. From tablets to smart phones to the Apple watch, people are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to assist them in managing their lives. Business Process as a Service (BPaaS).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The car-sharing service has struggled for months, long before COVID-19 upended the “shared” mobility sector. Our learnings and developments from Maven will go on to benefit and accelerate the growth of other areas of GM business.”. The Verge was the first to report the story. and Toronto.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). Why the name? Who is your target user?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

All you hear about these days is Mobile. Companies are spending more time and money on their mobile sites than their full-fledged website. It’s hard to even watch a TV commercial without some sort of mobile app shout out. I bet there is a lot that would surprise you about the mobile world. Download Apps From the Web.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. Scott will share data and results from both ChaCha and other industry sources that will highlight the compelling opportunity that brand advertisers now have in the mobile arena. Presenter: Scott A. Presenter: Scott A.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

How do you come up with a compelling, mobile videogame title? We thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind Jonathan's startup efforts and where he hopes his mobile gaming startup will go. Jonathan LaCour: Playzon is a social video game developer. What is Playzon? They aren't games that look really astounding.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless , which develops wireless broadband cards and other products, announced this morning that it has added Russell C. Gerns was also a professor at Pepperdine University, and is on the Board of Advisors at UCLA Anderson's Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Gerns to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

as part of its Google Focused Research Awards, to help fund research in ares of study that are of key interest to the company. Tags: google search engine research development. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M Individual amounts of the grants to the projects were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The Los Angeles dating app developer has launched a new feature , which lets Tinder users include tracks from Spotify on their profiles. The new feature makes a lot of sense for the dating set--studies have shown that musical tastes can have a big impact on the success, or failure of relationships. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubble: I have a finance background, and studied international finance in Germany, Chile, South America, and Australia. I founded my first company in 2010, building a daily deals site based on a mobile platform around a fraternity, Alpha Kai. After our next round of funding, we'll definitely be developing an Android app as well.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubbe: I have a finance background, and studied international finance in Germany, Chile, South America, and Australia. I founded my first company in 2010, building a daily deals site based on a mobile platform around a fraternity, Alpha Kai. After our next round of funding, we'll definitely be developing an Android app as well.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. This year, after working with Team Downey, and several other accelerators, our idea became more developed. Where is your product today?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I spent the last decade building up the analytics stack at mobile game companies, mostly in Silicon Valley, leveraging that data for live operations. My co-founder and I both had this vision of leveraging mobile and web technology, to make it easier for people to connect to each other in their demographic.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. Two customer-focused announcements stood out: the reviews API and the customer case studies. Success of the app stores starts with developers.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2018

market capitalization, and tech is a growing target for corporate research and development dollars. Also on the rise: Forms of digital payment, from mobile payments to in-app purchases to smart home device buys. In the U.S., at least, business has never been more equivalent with “tech.” Why Tech Startups Care.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. The vision early on was about fundamentally changing the restaurant ordering experience, by developing a more engaging experience on a kiosk.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It was a sufficient barrier and we developed social graces. The sort of thing I’m guessing you’ve studied for some time. I’d sooner people have my mobile phone number than my email address because as a society we know the social norm that just calling or texting somebody you don’t know isn’t acceptable.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

” Also last year it published a study in collaboration with the University of Texas showing that pollution is hyperlocal — thereby supporting its thesis that effective air quality mapping requires dense networks of sensors if you’re going to truly reflect the variable reality on the ground.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. Mobile Computing. From tablets to smart phones to the Apple watch, people are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to assist them in managing their lives. Business Process as a Service (BPaaS).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. MYTH: Development costs are too high. Developing an app is costly.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. We set up to develop that technology, in partnership with institutions and researchers, psychologists, and marketing professors.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In today''s mobile world, SMS has widespread, near ubiquitous adoption, which is great for consumers who want to communicate with their friends and family. By giving them your mobile number, you''ve created a priority channel. We spoke with CEO Brad Brooks to learn more about the company. What does TigerText do?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And with mobile you even have the ability to message your users when new content is released which leads to much higher consumptions rates. And ironically many consumer mobile apps are more of hits-driven businesses than video is today. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? Then I found Headspace - founder Andy Puddicombe's soothing voice was for me, love at first listen.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : TestFlight helps developers build better apps. We developed it for ourselves. TestFlight does simple, elegant, over the air distribution of apps that are in development and haven’t been made available in the App Store yet. In the development world, it is always about patterns. ."

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

So if you want to be a content producer and want to make money you can develop content for global “niches” of watchers who might like: Japanese Anime, South Korean drama, Bollywood productions, reality TV on any topic – fashion, cooking, travel. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. billion views.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 5, 2015

Kids can strap on their mini Iron Man “repulsor sleeve” and open their mobile app to learn their mission. A new third-party study commissioned by Disney reveals that parents feel nostalgia for the way they used to play growing up and that they also have a desire to keep their kids active.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

It's a powerful opportunity to connect people offline with the mobile, online experience. market has been different, is that the adoption of mobile internet has not been nearly as prevalent. However, one way the U.S. In that market, there are literally no ROI metrics. The best metrics are estimated impressions.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. A number of years ago, myself and some of my colleagues in the entertainment industry developed a nonprofit workplace in Hollywood.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But audience size and consumption is massive and growing plus; Study Innovator’s Dilemma ( my cheat sheet here ). For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. And investing in content companies won’t return money!

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Toyota, Pizza Hut, NBA, Fandango, and More Share Their Success Stories with Mobile and Social Apps. During this high-level event, Top Brand Marketers, Agency Executives, Publishers, and App Developers will come together to discuss and explore how brands can harness the power of the billion dollar app boom. Win a ticket to digiday:APPS.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

As we studied that Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the company, a few things popped out at us. When I studied the landscape, it's clear that for our consumers, they are very price conscious. Brad Stewart: There was a lot of business development on this partnership. That really made us an extended rental car company, if you think about it.

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