Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

Snapchat 82

Snapchat Social Media Social Network Media 82

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Yet according to the latest data from Gust (formerly AngelSoft), only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Line up an experienced team.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

Media 150

Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

At the point of payment or point of purchase, people should be able to connect to any payment instrument that allows them to call their preferred funding source and make a payment on any device, anywhere in the world, and choose to share that experience with the people they care and trust the most. Why should people use Zunguz?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). I Be specific.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Nowadays, when you post something online, whether that is an image in a gallery or social networking site, it only has a lifespan of just a few seconds. I created something like 80 to a 100 screens. Let's talk about funding. How is the company funded? I knew what I wanted, and spec'd it out myself.

Email 218

Email Startup Ideas Burbank 218

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. This is the fund raising perspective from both sides of the table. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. Executive Summary.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). social amplification (from which memes are spread) by Twitter and the like; and … commenting. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to fund in the video creation world. ” So WoW in a way is his son’s social network.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). From this crowd of 12 I believe you’ll see 4-5 companies with the potential to rise to prominence.

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2010

The app has your standard social networking features such as Friend Requests, Messages, and a profile. Also, no social networking app would be complete without some kind of lifestream, or in Graphic.ly’s case, an event feed. just closed its first round of funding, so we’ll be keeping a close eye on this one.

Software Review 40

Software Review Social Network Screening Networking 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. Unlike those IM clients with a small (ineffective) footprint, Meebo experience is a website and a full page screen. We then captured this conversation again on camera.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

It was just a matter of process to add iOS, and later, Android to the output, and start designing games for the larger screens, later bringing those games down to run on BREW and Java after that. That said, it's sometimes difficult to compete against better funded competitors. It hones our focus a little more.

Mobile 168

Mobile Java Google Startup 168

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Once that a product has made that initial screen, we look further, to make sure it's also cost effective and easy to live with. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. They were envious.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Social networking meets online personal health management. I got so excited about this company that I reached out to the CEO to enquire about fund raising. WakeMate has you record things like the last time you had caffeine before sleeping, your last meal and when you last had computer or TV screen time.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. When using the Handjob app , users must shake the app up and down or side to side and out pops a pre-screened job applicant. All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. They were envious.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Kaye Popofsky Kramer – Founder of Step Up Women’s Network. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. Hulu emerged in the social networking era and yet Boxee has been way out in front in terms of creating social viewing experiences.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292