socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat. The firm's CEO is Brian McKelvey , who we caught up with recently to learn more about his background, the firm, and the market it hopes to serve.

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Social Network JavaScript Startup Platform 239

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you?

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software. A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3.

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Santa Monica PHP Startup JavaScript 90

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

It’s built on Ruby with HTML5/javascript using Isotope. Any Funding Yet? Yes – angel funded by Rod Perth (former CBS, CEO of NAPTE), Henrik Vanderlip of Viking Capital Partners, Gary Jacobs (former EVP and General Counsel of MGM/ Resorts) and several other angels. How cool is that? We love Web 3.0. 1 1/2 years.

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Social Network Networking Content Web 104

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. What we did, is we made our first foray into HTML5 and Javascript. Has working on a Facebook app been different for you, given your roots in Flash? Mark Sylvester: It has been different. You hit the nail on the head. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack.

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Social Media Startup Tool HTML 203

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem. Much bigger.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

A site like the New York Times, which might 10-12 seconds to load because it has so many graphics and Javascript to pull down, our caching technology transparently accelerates that using the capability of your hard drive. How is the company funded? We use the term Mobolized -- which is slightly different than offline.

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SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). accessibility. authenticity.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. I’m willing to fund companies in the interim. That meant that user experience was not as rich as it would be for a client-side app.

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