SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 12, 2009

A User Story Writing Workshop In this completely hands-on workshop, we'll work through writing a set of user stories for an example project. We'll start with some simple stories and build up to story writing for larger and more complex situations. Wednesday, March 18, 2009 -- Agile/XPSoCal. See [link] (more).

Writing 100

Writing Startup Examples 100

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. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the challenges is simply timing: so many things have to happen at once for these projects to get off the ground, and most governors and mayors lack the timing skills required to get them over the finish line. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. How can you practice timing?

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

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? The traditional way to handle that is to write code.

Networking 214

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.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2010

Let me go back and do my classic search for "eHarmony of" startup and find a few examples to use: People to Projects (Managers) People to Jobs (Hiring Managers) Students to Tutors Each of these involve matching people to people (I’ve stayed away from content matching in these examples). " III.

eHarmony 150

eHarmony Examples FAQ Design 150

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. We'll even write a half a million check. You've got lots of experience in the SaaS market with Salesforce.com, what's your opinion on where that market is today--and how do SoCal's Software startups stack up? That as unhealthy.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

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.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Here's an example of that kind of email. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Take lots of them out for free coffee, food, beer.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Let me use LA as an example. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

People say we’re crazy, but we know creators are legit businesses,” Karat writes on its website — the company didn’t respond to a request to chat about what they’re working on. Podfund , for example, writes checks sized between $25,000 to $50,000 to emerging podcasters.

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

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. We're still powering actions there, but we're not doing editorial.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

Let me give you some examples: Tristan Walker : I first met Tristan online when he was merely human (e.g. His father, Dr. Stanley Feld, who writes his own blog and covered the encounter in this post , “ Mark Suster twittered Brad on Saturday and asked if he could meet us for breakfast on Sunday. before having 300k followers!).

Social Network 347

Social Network Networking Blogging RSS 347

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). For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. For example, our friends at the LMU incubator are doing a great job helping companies to mature. Rami Rostami: As Gerard mentioned, I grew up in Southern California, in los Angeles, and I think some of this is to help contribute back to the community.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

For example, if you want to match the people being returned as friends on one system and look them up on another system, there's no common identifier across systems. It will make life better if you are developing applications that you'd like to play in multiple places (write once, integrate/debug everywhere).

Writing 150

Writing Platform Sites Google 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This month’s big question is Examples of Big Impact from Technology and I’ve taken it as an opportunity to go back and look at the elements of different projects that I’ve worked on over the years that have had a big impact. They can easily copy, paste and edit a goal/plan from one of the examples and have no real intent on implementing.

Satisfaction 167

Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. He described why the time is so ripe for innovation and why this was a great time to build startups. For example, Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity made a huge impact.

Startup 107

Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

You are writing about the essentials of business. The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? That's great.

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

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. Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing? Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com), First of all, what is 15desks?

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. I can’t really speak generically to this because the Tech Coast Angels / Pasadena in SoCal have produced Green Dot, MyShape and many other successes. How much to raise?

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." For example, the iPod won not because of better features and functions. It won because of interface, ease of use.

Metrics 264

Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. I wanted to just write. I like writing. I’m so happy to be back! We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. 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. I could be International guy.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Examples in My Life & Work. One of the most important articles I read during the entire year was David Brook’s op-ed article on “ The Haimish Line.”

Startup 319

Startup Organization Entrepreneur Blogging 319

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Their relationship with you is not as important as the one they have with the people that write them checks. An example is a law firm, inside of a firm with a dozen attorneys, they are rich with relationships that they are hard pressed to share with each other. One was a loan for the very first stage of the startup.

Networking 113

Networking Startup Social Network Software 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The iPhone is a great example of simplicity and clarity. It’s so easy to use that a two year old baby who doesn’t know how to speak can pick it up and play with it. You can write an angry email to get your emotions out but you shouldn’t necessarily send it (or wait 1 hour and then make a decision).

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. Hustle hard, ride in comfort.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. I looked at a couple of specific examples, where I ask for help from my followers. Get to know them. Use Ping.fm

Social Media 222

Social Media Services Media Blogging 222

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. Once youve included the file in your project, just include the following code on the page that youre using to process login requests: I usually include the code in the bootstrap file of my project, so you can check if a user has just logged in from any page of your site.

Software Review 40

Software Review PHP Class Startup 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. For example add trailing slashes –if necessary–, and remove clutter from query strings.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: user_id, event_name, value, datetime. Make sense?

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

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. But I don’t think so. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? This post is an accusation.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Example: Netflix). I’m going to try to do something for you guys that I’ve always resisted doing. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? What’s going to happen in the future?' There is no competition.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191