socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Mobile Roadie, headed by Michael Schneider , develops tools that make easy for non-programmers to create their own mobile apps. Describe what Mobile Roadie does? The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist.

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. That's a huge amount of mobile traffic.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2012

A New York-based provider of mobile consulting and development said Tuesday that it has opened up a new Los Angeles office, specifically to become part of the "Silicon Beach" startup scene in the area. Applico , which develops Android, iPhone, and mobile web software, said it specifically decided to open an L.A.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. Or are you starting from scratch? But it''s quite different working for large firms than it is with startups. You should be getting an estimate for the work effort before you get started. What do they do after the web site is launched?

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

It seems like a "no-brainer" -- young girls are among the biggest audiences for mobile games, and there''s a huge subculture of games targeted at iPhone-carrying girls. However, Mobigirl Media (www.mobigirlmedia.com), a new mobile advertising network, is looking to change that by specifically creating an ad network focused on girls.

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Mobile Networking Media Advertising 208

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2014

A new, Los Angeles startup, Whim , has recently launched, looking to cut the time between mobile contact and a real date--saying that its app make it possible for users to find a person, and get a date the same day. Whim''s app currently works on the mobile web, and the startup said it will soon be releasing an iOS native version.

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Mobile HTML Web Los Angeles 178

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Los Angeles-based Gumiyo (www.gumiyo.com) has been developing mobile websites for SMBs and publishers for a number of years, and recently started to offer up self-service tools to make it easy for those customers to create cross-device mobile websites. What is Gumiyo up to nowadays, what does your business looks like?

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APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

Many online business today have a big problem: users are increasingly coming to their websites as mobile users, not desktop users, which means lower ad revenues and conversions. How do you make those mobile users just as profitable as desktop users? All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms.

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Mobile Web Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 124

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Papaya is a Los Angeles-based startup with a mission to do just that. It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal. has been an anomaly, with only 3% of bills being paid by a mobile device. In this respect, the U.S.

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Mobile Artificial Inteligence Startup Los Angeles 208

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

ChowNow , a startup which provides social, mobile, and web-based online ordering for restaurants, said this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding. The startup said that it will use the funding to launch new products and expand national operations. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile GRP Partners Web Capital 157

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

What could you learn from looking at your competitors or other tech startups in a different way? Or you think their startup is a passing fad and yours is the real deal? In general, we seem to be building too many positive re-enforcement systems on the web. I was at a dinner about a year ago with a few VCs and startup founders.

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MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Wednesday that it will begin offering up free clips from the site to mobile users--the first time that Hulu has offered up content to mobile devices outside of Hulu Plus. The new clips are available via Hulu''s mobile web interface, at Hulu.com. READ MORE>>.

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Hulu Mobile Content Startup 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! This has been a long-time dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who (really) invented the World Wide Web. He calls his dream the ‘ Semantic Web ’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. Memorable personality. Marty Zwilling.

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Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 152

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I hope to publish that deck and a full write up in the next 10 days in partnership with Dan Primack at Fortune (if my write up doesn’t suck, I guess ;-)). Startup Lessons' This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Online dating site eHarmony is reporting that it's seeing an increasing number of users using its mobile apps to access its dating service, and also said that conversions of those users is up nearly 40 percent year to year. READ MORE>>.

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eHarmony Mobile Santa Monica Report 153

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. So, we decided our initial focus should be on the mobile platform.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

Have you every clicked on a mobile ad on your iPhone or Android phone, and found that the ad you clicked into wasn't usable on your mobile phone? Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. We're creating really good looking, really easy to use, really effective mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo?

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Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. We both felt that most startups are not taking a very systematic approach to defining with they need in terms of advisors.

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CTO Coach Startup CTO Hire Template 241

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. But the reality is that I engage with about 5 new startups each year which means that I end up working with less than 5% of the startups where I provide these free consulting sessions. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

I used to work for Andersen Consulting (for > 8 years) – mostly building computer systems for large companies in the fixed telecoms, mobile and Internet sectors. On every project in which we worked it was clear that there was corporate knowledge built up around the organization. Tags: Startup Advice.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. But the reality is that I engage with about 5 new startups each year which means that I end up working with less than 5% of the startups where I provide these free consulting sessions. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati. I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Newport Beach-based BuildFire said yesterday that it has released a new platform, aimed at helping businesses and nonprofits to easily create native smartphone, tablet, and web apps. The new startup was co-founded by Ian Blair and Nathan Keating. apps native development software mobile buildfire' READ MORE>>.

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Platform Mobile Commerce Resource 149

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Architecture All startups will make a lot of changes and scale the product as they move along. Walls quickly go up. One of your better developers leaves.

CTO Coach 219

CTO Coach Develop Development Startup 219

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. There's an awful lot of check-in sites out there.

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CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? "We are doing something in mobile advertising."

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Quigo set up a system on specific web pages.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation.

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