TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Meta isn’t the only tech company looking to carve out its own identity by helping people craft theirs using digital avatars. NFT sales volumes are falling and crypto prices remain depressed, but Nigam expressed confidence about the long-term demand for digital avatars, likening them to mobile apps in their significance to the internet.

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MAY 24, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile app startup Chatter said today that it is about to launch an app, which will let fans hold one-on-one, five minute chats with their favorite stars--and, at the same time, help raise money for charities. The app runs on iOS and Android.

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MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. They produced algorithms and systems that helped to personalize the Internet so that you have a unique experience when you visit individual websites. LA has a serious technology scene. And I’m proud of that, too. Maker Studios.

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JUNE 29, 2014

I presented the deck below – which was prepared with the great help of Upfront Venture’s Principal Jordan Hudson – at Dave McClure’s must attend event called PreMoney with much more data and narrative than I had in my blog post. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Maker Studios, SnapChat, Tinder).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Can a mobile app make creating and designing your space as easy as posting a selfie on Snapchat or Instagram? If you think about a filter on Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat, this is like putting a filter on your space so you can find a design that you love. How does that work, and what's the purchase part about?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Our mobile phones are capable of doing almost anything these days. Matt Lucido wanted to help with everyone’s daily life by creating a service app called Porter. Over the last two months, the other three that were helping me build Porter, got even more passionate about working full-time. So, I have no tech support right now.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. There are a lot of mobile dating apps out there, and lots of competition.

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MAY 19, 2013

He understands our issues as a community and vows to help keep LA Tech on the map. And how can you help? If you live in LA (or even if you don’t you can help amplify) please consider Tweeting the following: “I support the tech industry. From his opponent I have heard crickets in the past year. Why does it matter?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I do this when I have free time and feel like being helpful to somebody who probably doesn’t expect to hear from me. I’d sooner people have my mobile phone number than my email address because as a society we know the social norm that just calling or texting somebody you don’t know isn’t acceptable. Your kids are getting huge!).

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. In my experience 90% of VCs fall short on their promises of how helpful or not they can be with intros. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. So, as you are heavily into the mobile area, what have you learned over the last few years?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

We have made a big push this year to bolster our team with healthcare industry expertise to help provide our customers with exceptional outcomes. Brad Brooks: Locally, I think Snapchat's IPO is going to spawn a massive ecosystem in the Southern California tech community.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

The people who we our content and videos in are essentially connected, mobile, have their phone with them all the time. Everyone carries their phone around, and 70 to 75 percent of the traffic on our site is all mobile. We've since expanded to Instagram and Vine, and it's Snapchat and Youtube next. We've done really well.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Social Media: Snapchat. Developed by four Stanford University students, Snapchat , now located in Venice, is a new way to share moments with friends and family.

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LATechDigest

MAY 9, 2016

Mobile Storytelling. **. SNAPCHAT Aims for $40CPM for Video Ads ( link ). Recode Profiles SNAPCHAT CEO Evan Spiegel ( link ). Helps Get Out the Vote. Josh from @FWD_us discusses tools to help activate communities for voter turnout pic.twitter.com/a0DPgQCUHz. Startup Law. Cloud Security Alliance. Thursday May 12.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Even with instant two-way communication via the Internet and mobile phones, your greatest new solution or service won’t found or properly recognized without marketing. For young consumers today, it may be Instagram or Snapchat, while B2B offerings should take a hard look at LinkedIn and other business forums. every month.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. What about mobile? It’s just like my book example.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s your job to help them get oriented with the right amount of information so that when you come together you can focus on making good decisions or at least helping you discuss difficult topics rather than spending all of your time informing them. We realized we needed help. In the Growth Years.

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JUNE 22, 2015

If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. As the desk-based Internet emerged it was initially sold through telecom carriers (after players like AOL and EarthLink innovated the market).

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JULY 26, 2015

What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug? Being able to leverage mobile contacts on your phone gave them independence from Facebook while many other people were doing anything they could to oAuth in FB users. ” “I can’t help it. I’m a scorpion.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I think startup communities being simple cheerleaders doesn’t help anyone. For example, Lookout is a mobile security company that was founded by three talented graduates of USC. And consider Snapchat – one of our hometown favorites as they’re based in LA (Venice Beach). ” Boston is still a great tech hub.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It was enormously fruitful and helpful.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

We helped talent with O&O (owned & operated websites) and with ad sales. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. But ignoring SnapChat for video is a mistake. When we were acquired by Disney we had a product & engineering team of 55 people. We built creators tools and website builders.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. Here’s how they did it … Mobile First —  It is now well understood that “mobile first” dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2016

It helped me to better understand how my brain works and I began working on coping mechanisms. I also found that not having your computer or mobile phone available drastically increasing your engagement and lowers your distractions. When you argue it stimulates your brain and helps you pay attention. Forced Self Control.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Thus begins Snapchat and why you don’t get it. Snapchat will be used for both like the Internet (and TV) are. I just need to break you of the idea that Snapchat is for one thing – it is not. But since Snapchat uses the frequency above your hearing range it’s nearly impossible to “get” without help.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Two years ago I made a commitment to stop bringing my mobile phone into my bedroom and with like a 95% compliance rate this made a big improvement. At nighttime I don’t check my email or social feed right before bed, which helps me from having last-minute anxiety before going to sleep. I share a bit on Snapchat.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

I would plan a day around which calls I could take while I was walking and which meetings could be mobile. It’s like the kids with their obsession with Snapchat streaks. And Strava is the tool that helps me gamify my frequency. I became as obsessive about my daily walking targets as my food logging had become. Frequency matters!

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JANUARY 13, 2016

And while producers also have their own direct websites and distributors have their own originals: The world is specializing into mostly content producers and content distributors plus social platforms that also distribute video like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat. But the one I was most attracted to was Latino.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Jonah said that didn’t map to his views on the history of the media business or to his own experiences at BuzzFeed where he contents that he is being paid to produce content by companies like Facebook and Snapchat. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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