SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. It's funny.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation.

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JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. What differentiates us from other platforms is that our members are helping each other – it’s about startups helping each other. Again, we’ve made this very easy.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. These exits have really validated our team's vision and that the talent and ideas that we invest and believe in. This reflection comes from Michael Jones of Science, Inc. Jones is also the former CEO of MySpace.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. I wound down my old company, and spun up Hopscotch, to build a better platform that could be used by not just the biggest operators, but everyone. Laurence Sotsky: That's a great question.

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APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. What''s the idea behind FieldLevel? Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. To learn more about how the company went from just an idea at an accelerator to a healthy exit, we spoke with founder Eli Portnoy. But, do they really help? Congrats on the acquisition! It was really great.

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JULY 19, 2016

Right now, you might rely on your friends�or maybe get an inkling of an idea from forecasts�but there's no way to know unless you get some real time information. After I turned 20, I lived there and competed in California, so I'm very connected to the surf scene here in Southern California.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

How did you come up with the idea for the company? Matt Knox: The idea came up, because most people have their own method of figuring out what they want to watch next. I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. I told him my idea, and after he sold his company, we started working on fundraising.

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APRIL 9, 2020

I got really inspired by that, hooked up with Yarone, a grizzled startup veteran in the Southern California startup technology. He had some similar ideas, and we workshoped it, and got super passionate about bringing back, as a core mission, a long term continuous relationship with the same doctor.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 31, 2014

It isn’t the biggest secret that the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins aren’t the best of friends, especially on the football field. On Sunday, March 2 nd at USC, these rivals took their battle to a new platform: startups.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. What do you mean by infrastructure?

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JUNE 30, 2016

The idea of waiting, asking, and waiting for answers is gone. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. Our seed investors were all, Southern California based investors.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Jay Goss , CEO of the startup--who is a veteran startup CEO here in Southern California-- talked to us about the new startup, which was developed by the technical co-founder of AskJeeves. Whether that's Facebook Messenger, SMS, LinkedIn, or any other messaging platform, it all adds us, to more messaging than on social networks.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Were part of the uCast Global video highway, which is our way of illustrating how content is being driven locally, regionally, and globally, using our platform, but also technology we have integrated and continue to integrate with our partners. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen.

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MARCH 8, 2013

What's the idea behind the incubator? So, I set out a little bit in an ad-hoc way starting companies as ideas came to me. We are the founders of these companies, and the ideas come from our own team. We've got a very strong team of general partners, and increasingly we're getting ideas from our major partners.

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JUNE 13, 2013

James DeJulio: We''re a social content development platform. Say, if you''re making a TV commercial or web video, each project unfolds over phases, so anyone, regardless of their skill, can participate. Round one is for ideas, then there''s a round for storyboarding, and a round for execution. Explain how Tongal works?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). So what about the ad management business excites me? Enter Burstly.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. The idea of entrepreneurship as a path and of technology as a change catalyst is taking root in cities and ecosystems all over the world.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. I figured out the economy was a new and emerging space, and there was a big need for a platform to close the gap between entrepreneurs and investors.

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MAY 10, 2017

That led to my experience and the idea, wondering if I could create the same kind of native experience people are used to with an app, except bring that through SMS. They liked the idea of being engaged with text messaging, and getting paid at the end of the day for hard work. What kind of jobs are coming through your platform?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

” More and more startup competitions are popping up in the relatively young and thriving startup tech scene of Southern California. Most entrepreneurs in a startup struggle to get that initial capital needed to execute development of their great idea.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 24, 2016

This unified event platform will provide up-to-date industry information and partnerships that allow entrepreneurs to brand, develop and launch successful businesses. Domain Startup Summit 2016 is this summer’s #1 meeting place in Santa Monica, California to connect with investors, thought leaders, startups and the domain industry.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. For investors, it's like Schwab -- you can track you investments in one place, and have an idea of what is going on with your companies. So how'd you end up here in Southern California?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. He was seeking $500k.

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JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? But, there wasn''t a platform out there dedicated and effective to meeting new people. But, what is viral, is the positive experience within the platform. That''s what Tinder really is. million profile ratings.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 8, 2012

The purpose of TEDx is to provide a platform for local ideas. Ideas that have the power to form community, to influence change in society, to improve our lives, or to make them more beautiful. ideas worth spreading? Saturday, July 14, 2012 -- TEDxAFC. See [link] (more)

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Everyone thinks of Northern California as the place to do anything technology related, but for unique power users and entertainment enthusiasts like me, you realized that entertainment--my first love--is in Southern California. We''ve got a lot of ideas and plans for our mobile experience, which we''re starting to work on.

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APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that.

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APRIL 8, 2013

A few weeks ago, the University of Southern California announced a new startup incubator, the Viterbi Startup Garage ([link] backed by such notable investors as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the United Talent Agency. We have a very large Ph.D. There''s a very broad range of scientific expertise.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The University of Southern California has developed a reputation for innovation and entrepreneurship over the years. In this yearly event put on by the Stevens Center for Innovation , 30 teams, selected from a pool of 70 applicants, presented their unique ideas to crowds of students, parents, and judges.

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Whether it be renowned athletes looking to enjoy some sun in the off-season or movies stars basking in the glory of stardom in between takes, the number of recognizable faces in this southern California city can be too much for some fans to bear. studio and platform for badass female entertainment, its creators and fans.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lyfe Mobile is a new Southern California startup that combines augmented reality (AR) with traditional ad networks and real-time bidding (RTB) to offer advertisers and brands a unique opportunity to engage customers in an exciting new way. “We had this crazy idea.

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