socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It''s a very successful research team, with over eighty peer-reviewed articles we''ve published. We started codingon this through federally funded research from the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies, the National Science Foundation, and others, and started some really efforts in big data algorithm development.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2012

One Giant 420,000-Square-Foot Room for Code. The social networking giant has not disclosed the amount it has set aside for the 420,000-square-foot building at its Menlo Park, California campus or how much Frank Gehry is cashing in on this deal. However according to Mark working with Frank Gehry will actually save Facebook money.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We have almost a thousand bloggers who are writing reviews about the products we offer, and we also review them from our own point of view, to help support parents decisions and learning about products in the real world. Between 1991 and 1995, I was in enterprise software and computer distribution.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

socalTECH

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. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. It also supports blogs.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The San Diego angels group also awarded a $10,000 cash prize for second place to Braykion , which has developed a wearable device for hospital caregivers. The San Diego group also hired its first executive director, Ashok Kamal, and has been working to improve its operations by restructuring and streamlining its due diligence process.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

One way Appallicious is already helping the City of San Francisco better connect with its citizens is the free Rec & Park app, developed in 2012, which utilizes open data to provide information on the city’s many parks. Ginsburg reminds citizens that no personal information is shared with app developers. Technology moves fast.

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Technical Review Software Review CIO Web Design 105

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

The startup has come up with an app now fully integrated with the giant social network and can be used to comment ,like, tag, browse through events, statuses, comments or swipe through videos as you rank them relevant or unwanted without leaving Facebook. The startup, loui Apps was founded in Berlin late last year. So why Gabi?

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

And if, like us, you spend the first six months of your startup under a rock, your social capital may begin to dry up. So with no real barometer for reliable talent and a fast-evaporating social network, where should early founders snag that elusive star talent. Because smart people know other smart people.

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Networking Startup Software Review Conference 82

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant?

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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. Explain what Tala is, and how it works? They just don't have data for that.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Scott Lahman is co-founder of Los Angeles-based GOGII (www.gogii.com), the developer of group text messaging application textPlus. Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We are now harnessing the ‘social’ aspect of the system where businesses and consumers begin to contribute to the data by adding or updating products listings as well as rate and review products.”. This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2010

The app, clearly made for comic-book lovers and announced at CES, is intended to be an online comic-book shop with social features. As the app, which is being developed for Adobe AIR, Windows, and mobile platforms, is early in its development, a full review would be premature, but here are our first impressions.

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Software Review Social Network Screening Networking 40

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

We are now harnessing the ‘social’ aspect of the system where businesses and consumers begin to contribute to the data by adding or updating products listings as well as rate and review products.”. This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup.

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Developers. Social media. Social networking. Social games. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Platform Help Custom Customer 82

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Because they wouldn’t have the enormous amounts of profits that they’ve been able to sink back into research & development. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

Bill pay aggregation software has been around for a few years now and is nothing revolutionary, but PayDivvy is not just an aggregation service. The social layer PayDivvy adds to a fragmented personal bill pay industry is really its secret sauce. by %, by $ amount). with the soon to come addition of offers.

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Conference Orange County Technical Review Software Review 96

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

It is a good thing that there is an app for everything today — work, social media, games, shopping, travel, photography, and schedule of movie screenings. It is no wonder that the average apps user spends 139 minutes per day browsing them, according to a report by Flurry, a company catering to app developers. We need an APP!

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Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Review the code being built.

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Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 The Social Web Challenges of 2010: A List What are the challenges with the social Web today?

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Christine Lee Chartboost – founders can from Tapulous – game developers. How to cross-promote within their own users and work with other developes to find a solution. She also urges mobile app developers to think about how to respectfully leverage their audiences for mass participation.

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Consumer approach to software for business users. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? The pure delays due to admin if I would have had 3-4 pig farmers would have killed me. But for most businesses it is.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We hired a head of technology, a head of customer service, a head of marketing, a head of strategy (which no startup should ever hire) a CFO and, ugh, 33 developers. One the one hand I feel great because we went out and built software that solved an industry problem. I’m not trying to take credit beyond where credit is due.

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Startup Venture Capital Technical Review Training 299

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Silly, right?

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