Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. But so many companies are being launched so fast that probability tells you that there will be major winners. Of course not. ” … Yeah.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. Like other people that live here, I personally love Southern California, and wanted to live here. Where did the name MuckerLab come from?

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information. An example of that is the UCLA flood. tilofy location data science computer bigdata parsing filtering interview startup entrepreneur southern california' We''re in four major U.S. READ MORE>>.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com), which develops web application firewall software, just inked a big, $35M series C funding round a few weeks ago, and now has plans to dramatically expand its hiring in Los Angeles. We also included existing investors we have locally in Southern California.

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Startup Funding Technical Review Software Review 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

I kept thinking that someone would eventually come up with a hub or place you could do everything--a home page, for example, where if you were going on a trip, and you could easily load your iPad full of stuff automatically. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. Can you give a concrete example of how that might work? Gary Bishop: The founder of the company is Dustin Snell, who is a classic, bootstrap entrepreneur.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? For example, if you're a retailer like Banana Republic, you probably send out offers to your database. He actually was named as one of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year. My experience is in the e-commerce business, selling things like DVDs in asia.

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Commerce Platform Southern California Customer 196

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. Southern California is somewhat uniquely positioned, however, because of our depth and breadth of university talent.

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). Andrew Humphries: There are four key things that we are doing.

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Organization Startup Google Invest 209

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It's a tough problem to solve, that experience of trying to find and discover new activities, especially in a market like Los Angeles and Southern California where there is so much to do outdoors, and there are so many types of facilities. You, as an entrepreneur, are expected to go though due diligence.

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). It’s also a great example of why transparency is so important.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. I founded NowLive a year ago, dedicated to producing and streaming live, professional events for the web and mobile, and anchored interactive.

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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. He was one of the first guys that I know who laid out his stall and said I want to do “big data” investments that take advantage of the explosion of data now available on the web. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. First, for those not familiar with CauseCast, what is the company all about?

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

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. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. It is how angel rounds come together.&#.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As I've had more than a hundred conversations with entrepreneurs who are planning to build a company around a matching algorithm, I thought it would be worth capturing a few thoughts that commonly come up. An example that relates directly to creating a matching algorithm, is the classic Myers-Briggs Type Inventory.

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eHarmony Startup Research Ideas 196

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

In the same way that the technology community is not the same when you''re talking San Francisco versus Palo Alto versus San Jose, Southern California''s technology communities have their own neighborhoods. We want to create businesses and engage with entrepreneurs. Andy Wilson: Great question. We were at ground zero.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We spoke to Daryl about the firm, the founders, and their use of Amazon Web Services as its back end. For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract. It looks like you're using Amazon Web Services heavily in the service?

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

If you’re not in the mood for a personal essay as an example of personal brand management you might want to wait for my next post. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. When I started my second company I was a serial entrepreneur. I defined myself.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing?

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

To that end, Classy is looking to help nonprofits, by not only bringing in more supporters, but retaining those supporters over time, year over year, so that they can rely on that income stream. Classy basically upgrades a nonprofit's website overnight, so that everything is mobile responsive, and it looks nice, and is visually appealing.

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Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

What you will convey in your conversations What protections you will place on those communications For example, you might decide that portions of your concept will be controlled more closely (a secret algorithm). I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

What you will convey in your conversations What protections you will place on those communications For example, you might decide that portions of your concept will be controlled more closely (a secret algorithm). I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

For example, the iPod won not because of better features and functions. Yet most of the newly minted entrepreneurs I've met think their job is nearly done when they've found MVP - they think they can go build a pitch off their early MVP and raise money! It won because of interface, ease of use.

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. The Irvine Co.

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Develop Development San Diego Startup 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. So consider this something of a recap, photo essay, and a personal thank you to all the great people who worked alongside us at SXSW this year. Founders, Entrepreneurs, and Celebrities, Oh My! Hustle hard, ride in comfort.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

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. In most cases if you can’t get a prototype done you’re probably not an entrepreneur. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. Most people are not entrepreneurs.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I'm constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. You Can’t Sign This Deal. It says what?!”).

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

The firm's founders are all experienced entrepreneurs, and come from Callwave, CrystalVoice, and Ideocore. In this particular instance, I'm calling you on a regular phone, and talking on a regular phone, so it's no VoIP. We sat down with president and co-founder, Mark Cromack, to hear more about the company.

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Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? 1B+ Revenue.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The Southern California locale benefits from its easy proximity to Silicon Valley, just an hours flight away, as well as from the many universities in the area, including Cal Tech, where Intel founder Gordon Moore went to school. So, we have been very successful in the area of innovating business models.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

You can go to Mogreet.com or go to our wireless web site, at wap.mogreet.com , or use your cell phone on any number of carriers, such as AT&T, Verizon, etc. We've also got Black Diamon, a local SoCAl fund, which is also leading the round. and use the carrier storefronts to pick the type of message you want to send.

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Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133