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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Be aggressive and alert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Think of these as the future version of the old “computer clubs,” or today’s multi-player game platforms.

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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. Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets. Who are your other cofounders?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Mickie Rosen: There were obviously a number of ways to develop and roll this out. So, we decided our initial focus should be on the mobile platform. That being said, we think that the overall value is better if you can be across all platforms. We meet with a lot of talented entrepreneurs, with fantastic startup ideas.

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MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We then allow you to use the print cloud, where we develop, print, and mail pieces very easily. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

The device is an alarm-clock like, Internet connected electronic product developed by the firm of the same name, San Diego-based Chumby (www.chumby.com). The firm is now run by Derrick Oien , who an experience entrepreneur, who was the founder of Intercasting Corporation, and a member of the management team which sold MP3.com

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Most investors won’t touch a first-time entrepreneur at this stage. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

The venture capital business itself is going through an even more fundamental change than just the entry of a new category at the earliest stage. That’s certainly good for our industry in terms of future returns for investors but I would argue also for entrepreneurs. But … Downsizing Venture Capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. And the winners? MASKKK the Destroyer, with their child tracker application.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. How did you get involved with angel investing, initially?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. Get over it.

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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. What's your biggest lesson you've learned as an entrepreneur?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Using his connections, he was able to raise funding from his family and other investors to co-found Appboy , a customer relationship management platform for mobile app developers and marketers. In other words, when did you get “bitten” by the entrepreneur bug? I’m a creative thinker, and tech has allowed me to do this.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that? how does your company stay on top of all of that?

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Deborah Ramo: Amavitae, which means "love life" in Latin, is a mobile-first platform to help the emerging workforce find a career that they will love and have a natural aptitude for, and to help them understand what careers are growing and will be around in the future. So how does a user use the platform? What is your app all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. People like free.

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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. Dream Diary is the app that people can category and color their dreams but cannot share.

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JUNE 9, 2014

We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. Those licensing fees can be pretty amazing.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The intent of our Spotlight events is always simple: to provide a live platform to showcase the very companies that our driving our tech/start up industry, to show our hometown investors a handful of worthwhile companies, and to give other founders some inspiration and innovation for their own companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The University of Southern California has developed a reputation for innovation and entrepreneurship over the years. The judges, which featured experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and professors, made their way around the groups and listened to the different pitches. Communication was most important.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). We're basically putting those two pieces together.

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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. I was impressed by what he was working on.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Rich Rygg: The API, essentially, allows a developer to take and collect data, and throw that into our service, and have that data come back in a meaningful way. Alerts can come in three categories. That brings our development staff up to five people, plus some engineers in India. Who would use that data and API?

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APRIL 15, 2019

What we have developed, is an electric mini-bike. One in three riders on our platform are over the age of 35, and many people who wouldn't try a scooter are enjoying our device. We were really passionate about this, and decided to go all-in, and create the next category of transportation company. One, is the form factor.

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. Dev Bhatia: You can think of them as lots of different platforms and devices. We already have live, paying customers in several categories.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. We also wanted access to development resources, and we have our product team here, the engineers and designers, all based in Santa Monica. However, our approach is a whole new product category, part of the marketing cloud. The most obvious, is to drive sales.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. It's in the automated translation category of the industry. Idris Manley: I have almost fifteen years in the software industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 13, 2011

What are the most difficult and best things about being an entrepreneur? Good entrepreneurs are people who will bet on themselves over anyone else and if you don’t feel like you can do that, it’s not the right gig for you. Mobile is important for all categories of eCommerce and social commerce. Where have you struggled?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Program head Robert Jadon describes Startup UCLA as more of a pre-accelerator than anything, meaning the the ideas are typically earlier stage and the entrepreneurs less experienced. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Along with this, tech experts have also developed other social apps for both Android and iPhone users, focusing on photos and icons. If there’s an app that is very simple in nature, the Yo app belongs to that category. It is considered as the “simplest and most efficient communication tool in the world”, developer Or Arbel says.

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