socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

That results in huge savings--up to 75 percent--in price, and you can also do it all in about ten minutes, because we've integrated directly with your course schedule, and filtered through the entire web simultaneously. How did you come up with the web site? Jonathan Simkin: We're all recent graduates. I graduated in May of 2010.

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. Love Intently (Austin, TX).

Startup 80

Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

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.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. 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.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. 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. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. Overture sold for $1.6

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

Our CTO was the Senior Web Engineer at Yahoo Music, and helped launch many of its international platforms, and helped rebuild the original Yahoo Music and Messenger radio players. Our VP of Technology was at Boom Music, which Launch.com acquired and later became part of Yahoo. That''s what you can do with urRadio.

Yahoo 100

Yahoo Social Media Content Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

Patents 179

Patents CarsDirect Sites Ideas 179

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Millions, billions, trillions?

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon. It can literally deliver thousands and thousands of messages, tens of thousands per minute, to every form of platform. We go to the web, we go to feature phones, we go to smart phones, we go to land lines, iPads, Droids, and so on.

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Los Angeles 159

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. The YouTube platform helps influencers build a massive audience but makes monetization challenging.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

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. Obviously, the other important thing is that now that we have a web-based client, a Gmail application, it will be easier to install than Outlook, if only conceptually.

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. Employee engagement is something we'll be releasing into our platform shortly.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

He also architected web-based trading platforms for several investment banks. We’re going to have pending patents for our technology. When Cloud Services started to emerge, he joined the newly formed SQL Azure team as a senior software engineer, with the daunting mission of converting SQL Server into a cloud-based service.

Email 63

Email CTO Hire Startup Organization 63

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We’re interested in being at the leading edge of how people search and explore the web based on images. Our mission is to create a dynamic platform with powerful tools that provide the most engaging user experience possible. Any funding yet, if yes how much and by who? What is your driving force, energy? Have you had any challenges?

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. TravelStrings – TravelStrings is an online platform for building and sharing travel stories. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI Think the new products are the only big things happening for Apple today?

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

To him, there’s a lot of money on the table for things like clean web, but if there aren’t any meat and potatoes projects, the whole system isn’t as effective. UCLA itself has been prodigious in patent filing, and recently launched their own VC fund. 2050 full utilization of local water.

UCLA 99

UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

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.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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. ProjectFresh was founded in 2002 as a platform to launch projects and companies that have a shared set of goals: To galvanize community and to promote cross-pollination.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Patent Lawsuit 6. All of this was supported by the technology platform (adMonitor) that I invented at ReaXions, Inc. (Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Technical Review Chief Technology Officer 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control. Be scrappy.

Startup 40

Startup Email Venture Capital CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I just saw an interesting step in that direction via a new book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, including StartupAmerica , and CoFoundersLab.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96