Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive car providers, without transactional agreements. Cloud-served services will be an amplifier for almost any opportunity, not only in the developed world, but in the developing world as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund. Members submit ideas and patents, the JumpStartFund community members and the JumpStartFund team vets them. Social network for investors.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank: Seco Sys has developed a range of web services that are dedicated to managing all types of water.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank: Seco Sys has developed a range of web services that are dedicated to managing all types of water.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

We spoke with Allison Dollar, Chief Strategy Officer at the company and member of the founding team, about what the company's service is all about. What is the SnapCuts service? Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. What's your team's background?

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2016

Avantika Shahi: We are a home search platform. I've been a buyer, an agent, and broker, and have gone through lots of different platforms, mediums, and sites, and it's hard to get a comprehensive picture of a home or neighborhood, without going to lots of different sites. What is Haus all about? There are two aspects of this business.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app. What is Zunguz?

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. I have a number of investments tackling the SMB space, including InDinero and Postling, all creating platforms to help small and medium sized businesses in some distinct way. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Startups and SMBs have been able to take advantage of the cloud, and all of the speed and flexibility it offers, long before large enterprise companies due to strict security and privacy standards, as well as regulations for major industries like banking, healthcare, and financial services. ” IBM gave this example.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. In collaboration with Marshawn Lynch, the cofounders are planning on making cell phone service free. Targeted mobile advertising.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

It''s also the only streaming service broadcasting at 432 Hz. Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! UrRadio also allow you to host your very own internet radio station from the comfort of your own home.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. It’s core platform stuff.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

A licensed version of the platform will offer large software publishers, content creators and hardware manufacturers a turnkey solution to create their own private-label storefront.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. Cloud-served services will be an amplifier for almost any opportunity, not only in the developed world, but in the developing world as well.

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Startup IBM IBM Examples 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jonathan Simkin: I was actually in high school when I decided I'd either start a company when I graduated, or go into patent law. Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise? Had you thought you'd be an entrepreneur when you were in college?

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. We do invest directly in companies that don''t need a shared service, as long as they''re tilting their industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive car providers, without transactional agreements. Cloud-served services will be an amplifier for almost any opportunity, not only in the developed world, but in the developing world as well.

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Competition IBM IBM Startup 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. Cloud-served services will be an amplifier for almost any opportunity, not only in the developed world, but in the developing world as well.

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IBM IBM Startup Examples 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The intent of our Spotlight events is always simple: to provide a live platform to showcase the very companies that our driving our tech/start up industry, to show our hometown investors a handful of worthwhile companies, and to give other founders some inspiration and innovation for their own companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. With over 9 million photo questions posted since October 2012, their users spend 170 minutes a month on the service.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. Milo Sindell: In terms of business model, it's a subscription service. Our online publishing platform allows users to monetize and share what they know.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based StarGreetz (www.stargreetz.com) debuted its celebrity-powered, personalized message service to the public, allowing both brands and artists to send highly personalized messages to their fans. Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon.

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions. According to Quipa, using a patented approach that’s more agile and secure than traditional VPN technologies, its QuipaLoop software segments a network into “loops” of trusted devices.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

At Microsoft, she architected several core technologies of the SQL Azure cloud service, most notably the cluster resource management. Bruno Denuit, our CTO, has worked for over ten years on database technologies and cloud services at Microsoft in Redmond. He also architected web-based trading platforms for several investment banks.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: While creating our email product, we'd done quite a bit of work on patenting the processes we were going through, and liked the concept of private messaging. We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Their patented multi-purpose cleaning formula was recently approved by Boeing to replace toxic solvents. The platform works across messengers, starting with the ubiquitous messenger that exists in 3.2Bn devices: SMS. Early 30s: Got really serious about her career and started her company LaunchBit, an adtech platform for SaaS marketers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and most often operate remotely (from anywhere in the world) in this age of the Internet. Then your apps need to run on the new iPhone platform. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Then your apps need to run on the new iPhone platform. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). startup scene so hot. Number two, necessity is the mother of all invention.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users. Free product. Page 3: Competition. Page 4: Business Model. Page 5: Financials.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. Liquidation After developing one of the most popular sites on the Internet and inventing a technology platform that enabled companies to grow their user base and generate revenue through online advertising, I felt it was time to take these experiences to market on a much larger scale. All-Star Team 4. Acquirer 9.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. Then your apps need to run on the new iPhone platform. Writing specialists. Information specialists.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup SEM 48

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. Things seem to move a lot slower.

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