Tech Zulu Event

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. Members can freely browse and explore the site. The site is now a lot faster. Back then, it was just him following his dream. We also buffed up our technology.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. In my experience, this has been really hard to do successfully.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We can do about 85 percent of all repairs on the driveway, on site. If we diagnose something major, where a vehicle has to be taken off site, we will take that vehicle and then bring it back when its done. So, whats next for you? They schedule an appointment, and finally, we come out to a consumers location at home or work.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The event will feature a panel of some of SoCal’s brightest entrepreneurs who have received funding from TechStars, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Idealab and will be moderated by upStart.LA’s Co-Founder, Dan Dato.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. Like other people that live here, I personally love Southern California, and wanted to live here. Erik, thanks for the time. It's a very similar model to YCombinator and TechStars.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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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. What is the site all about? The web site caters only to people in the green space. Let's start with an overview of Clean Green Guy.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. If you can’t keep up, you are dead.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. It was a finalist in Marshall ’s New Venture Seed Competition and it has earned a place within IncubatriX, a startup Incubator through USC’s Grief School of Entrepreneurship, which currently houses over a dozen USC startups.

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JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. After TechStars, how did you end up in LA?

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. It’s been an amazing experience so far, but the best part are the relationships I’ve built since getting started. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! YouTube and many others.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. That said, we still need investors here.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen. The online site looks at personality assessments, compatibility, industry, distance, and roles. Kaviani says of his site, “It’s not just for tech, it is for any industry.”. titled “Co-Founders Wanted.”

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APRIL 4, 2013

We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 8, 2008

This two hour workshop at the Business Technology Center, one of the largest incubators in California, offers business owners and their marketing staff useful insight into the fast changing techniques necessary to move their online businesses higher in the search engine rankings, and draw more traffic to their web sites.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. It’s been an amazing experience so far, but the best part are the relationships I’ve built since getting started. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In what has been an unprecedented surge in interest in helping entrepreneurs, there have been more than a half dozen accelerators--most patterned after the successful YCombinator and TechStars programs elsewhere in the country--established in Southern California in the last month or so.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Incubator: Amplify LA. Events: Digital LA / Silicon Beach Fest.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Diamond Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Diamond Sponsor.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Kevin Miller, president of Westside Rentals, which bills itself as Southern Californias largest home-finding service, says he has seen rents in Santa Monica and Venice increase by about 10% over the last 18 months—compared with other desirable areas such as Beverly Hills and Culver City, where he says rents increased by about 4% to 5%.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Why You Should Write. Status / reputation.

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