socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams, co-founder and chief advocacy officer at Alteryx (www.alteryx.com) who is based in Irvine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges. Invest in communication skills and use all platforms. Don’t forget the new social media platforms and industry forums. Not every initiative will win, and you need to also know when to pack it in and move on.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Nick helped orchestrate the successful sale of the company to Velocify partner and leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, Ellie Mae.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2010

On the heels of the announcement this morning by Facebook that it has officially hit 500 million users, socalTECH has mined its database of high tech companies , and identified a few of the firms here in Southern California hoping to ride Facebook's coat-tails to success and fortune. Headed by Ian Swanson.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Kelly Perdew , Co-founder and General Partner of Moonshots Capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. The third is a platform to connect everyone on, which is being provided by Internships.com, which is at techla.internships.com.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Looking for a job at some of the hottest Southern California high tech startups? We provide healthcare establishments a much-needed and required HIPAA compliant solution that offers security, accountability and productivity that SMS text-messaging and communication platforms such as email cannot.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Right here in Los Angeles, Gil Elbaz and his team at Factual are building a platform and pipe for structured datasets that can be accessed (and purchased) as an on-demand service by anyone who needs them.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2017

The world of plumbing is not known for its high tech products. WeMo is a consumer friendly, connected home, Internet-of-Things solution and platform that we developed, to control light switches, connected outlets, plugs where you can monitor your energy, and schedule. Tell us the story on how Phyn spun out of Belkin?

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

That's designing games on platforms that are fairly nascent now, like the iPhone was in 2008. So, we founded the company, and starting building game on different platforms, to gain intuition on how consumers would use these other platforms. It was still under debate. Our pitch to them was very straightforward.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Facebook now accounts for a staggering 25% of all display impressions (up from 9% last year), and Facebook and its advertisers are finally beginning to understand how to leverage the platform's unique capabilities.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

While it is not surprising that many of the startups associate themselves with one or more recognizable high-tech brands, the high concentration of the particular companies referenced is peculiar. Chris went on to highlight an interesting pattern in the AngelList positioning pitches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. Find out what other people are doing, and what works for them. People love to share what they know. Experiment with social media tools. But don’t stop there. Or are you too busy?

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

In the Bangladesh case, the attackers compromised a legitimate bank user’s account and put in money wire orders through the SWIFT platform, which is used by banks around the world to transfer money. The attack method for these high-tech bank heists is similar to credit card fraud.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. Find out what other people are doing, and what works for them. People love to share what they know. Experiment with social media tools. But don’t stop there. Or are you too busy?

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. What is Loudvine? Vic Caretti: It's pretty simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. Find out what other people are doing, and what works for them. People love to share what they know. Experiment with social media tools. But don’t stop there. Or are you too busy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. Find out what other people are doing, and what works for them. People love to share what they know. Experiment with social media tools. But don’t stop there. Or are you too busy?

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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. Employee engagement is something we'll be releasing into our platform shortly.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.)

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

or “ what do you think about the effects of the economy on high-tech? ”. Although we use.Net for the platform and the site, we use MySQL as the database (yeah, not SQL Server), MemCached for caching, Lucene for full text search, and other open source technologies. or “ what is your current runway? ” is a charged question.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

or “ what do you think about the effects of the economy on high-tech? ”. Although we use.Net for the platform and the site, we use MySQL as the database (yeah, not SQL Server), MemCached for caching, Lucene for full text search, and other open source technologies. or “ what is your current runway? ” is a charged question.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That’s about all I can tell you about the program, but I spent six months in tech school where I received classroom training in electrical theory and hands-on field training and learned two different system platforms we used at the time. All because of tech. DB: I learned the value of hard work. I learned how to lead.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

or “ what do you think about the effects of the economy on high-tech? ”. Although we use.Net for the platform and the site, we use MySQL as the database (yeah, not SQL Server), MemCached for caching, Lucene for full text search, and other open source technologies. or “ what is your current runway? ” is a charged question.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In the 1980s, high-tech companies stored information about their customers on their sophisticated and high-cost computer equipment. A single modern high-performance server can process a tremendous amount of user data, at least from the point of view of a start-up company. Traditional platforms are more stable.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. For us, relatively large and very large multi location brands use our platform to ensure they get discovered online.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2010

In spite of what you see on Shark Tank, your food business isn't gonna get serious interest from a group of high tech investors. Another social networking platform may be keeping you awake half the night, but it'll likely put us to sleep. But like everything else in life, there's a right way and a wrong way. Know what's tired.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

By opening its platform to third-party development, Facebook allowed the market to determine the winning applications, rather than trying to define them internally. Understand what you do well and focus on doing it b. 8 ) Mark's Do Over. "If "If I were starting now, I would do it very differently.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. Checkout this amazing lineup of keynotes, panels, and talks during this high-level full day event. Meanwhile, are the augmented reality apps too high-tech to make it into the mainstream? Who are the agents for the change? The advertiser?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

Each social media platform enforces rules which punish fakers. In addition to high-tech tools, there are variety of common sense ways to assess the veracity of someone''s social media empire. The Downside. For instance, Yelp calls out establishments which attempt to manipulate their reviews. Is Your Favorite Celebrity Faking It?

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Social Media Media Technical Review Software Review 274

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Venture Bonsai Takes Crowdfunding To A New Level - ArcticStartup , November 22, 2010 Venture Bonsai is a new crowdfunding platform that is in private "invitation stage" as the co-founder of the company, Antti Hannula, states. That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. You got it.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2014

In the first time that President Barack Obama has paid a special visit to the epicenter of Southern California''s high tech industry, the President spoke for over an hour to an audience of entrepreneurs at Cross Campus , the Santa Monica coworking space, touching on topics around providing an infrastructure for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With the Republican National Convention behind us and the Democratic convention in full swing, it seems like a good moment to ask how a Donald Trump presidency or a Hillary Clinton presidency might affect the prospects for high-tech entrepreneurship and business growth in the United States. The Democratic platform says that the U.S.

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