TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. I wish I did more enterprise software investing because when I attend meetings like this I realize that this is my core DNA – rolling out business software solutions to customers. You can’t. Many people advise against this.

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Customer Custom Venture Capital Software Review 341

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. Amazon attracts third-party sellers with tools and processes that make then all winners in the marketplace. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

According to CapLinked, it will make its premium capital raising and investor reporting tools available to the more than 8,500 startups enrolled with Startup America. Startup America is the effort launched last year to spur the creation of startups nationwide. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Yammer 153

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2014

Brighter''s tools include dentist reviews; upfront cost estimates; and scheduling and appointment handling software for the dentists themselves. The company is backed by Mayfield Fund, Benchmark and Tenaya Capital. Brighter said the expansion adds about 350 dentists in Orange County to the service. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Software Review Los Angeles Pricing 138

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures. However, as it happened, we went into due diligence and got a term sheet to sell the company on my month off. Did you get funding this time around for the new company? What is Pledgeling?

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Technical Review Software Review Mogreet Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” ” Free online tools. It also has free virtual due diligence sessions, investment dashboards, an advanced data room and virtual boardroom features.

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Software Review Platform Equity Tool 69

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Startup Software Review Technical Review Social Media 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2010

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides online video management tools for web publishers, said today that it has hired on four new executives to its Business Development team. The firm said the hires were directly due to its recent, October $2M funding round and related expansion plans. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Very few people fund individuals. I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Not just funding but learn their story.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We started in 2000.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Most relevant to startups is the push to fund initiatives and technologies that can help prevent or protect against extreme wildfires; rising sea levels and hurricanes; new agriculture resource management; and “climate-smart” technologies. The vast majority of those are nowhere up to modern codes.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. My partner Steven Dietz is an expert on cars (and auto startups having funded DealerTrack , TrueCar , Digital Airstrike , Uparts and others) and I called him and he said, “Decline everything. But I digress. Sell stuff. Your 8-year-old Toyota is just fine.

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Conference Technical Review Truecar Software Review 398

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. Today's interview is with Eric M. Eric, what's the story behind CapLinked?

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Rufus Labs is one of a number of hardware startups which have started to proliferate in the community, due to low cost hardware, 3D printing, and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Right now, the tools there are old and outdated, and mostly handheld. Our tool does the same thing. That's how we got our start.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2012

Goko is backed by Redpoint Ventures and Aslop Louie Partners from whom it raised raised $8m in Series A funding. Goko CEO Ted Griggs said that for long it was only big game companies that had tools for creating and launching social games but Goko was ending that. Goko was founded by Ted Griggs as CEO and Kevin Binkley as CTO.

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Redpoint HTML Funding Company 65

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review. Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. What is myfab5?

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Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

According to SGL, developers can now submit their apps for review and have their press releases and updates distributed on the Stained Glass Labs website, which gives them the quick feedback from other developers and the ability to submit press releases, which are sent to members of the media interested in Google Glass and wearable technologies.

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Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. You mentioned funding--you're raising a round?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. What is TrackStreet? It makes you rethink things.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So if you are outside the U.S. we are not going to invest. Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. Problem is – Weight Watchers software TOTALLY SUCKS. Data storage in Twitter is a big problem and tools like CoTweet that solve this are essential). It is really a pleasure to use the tool compared with WW. I’m not that public about my weight.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers. In the meantime, I was getting frustrated with the software being used at my son's school.

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I know of at least 2 deals from that cohort that are either funded ( Backupify ) or nearly funded (can’t really disclose, I’m not sure if it’s yet closed and/or announced. Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. He praised DARPA for looking to fund “safety first, rather than jumping to fund unsafe work with only a handful of potential applications.” Some see it as a way to eradicate malaria.)

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

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. What is NativeTung?

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Most tools in the market are focused on the operations side, and post sales--what happens downstream, so publishers can provide proper revenue recognition and billing numbers. How does your solution fit with the many automated tools and ad networks out there? People are much more willing to look at data driven tools.

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Advertising Startup Sales Tool 127

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Alex Nocifera: We're lucky in that we have LA's best seed funds. Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic? The uniqueness is we're a database, a marketplace, and predictive analytics under the hood threading together every signal into a predictive state for marketers.

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Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Darrius Thompson--who was also a co-founder at DivX--to learn more about the startup, the saga behind how the company started, and the funding. Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M

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Software Review Software Startup Examples 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. What we want to do is solve that problem, and build the first, live project and product collaboration tool. A good comparison of the software is to a PDF reader.

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Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. There are tools and solutions needed to handle Social Media 1.0, Now that you have funding, whats next big thing?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We are taking a lot of the modern tools that most digital marketers expect, and we are applying that to an old school industry, which is proving to be a lot of value to people. in funding in that round, which closed about a year ago. What is a print cloud? We raised $3.5M That's pretty unique in this space.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. PureTech also bucked the Brexit fallout this week.

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