socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The first, the distributed platform that supports smart contracts, which as a technology has great disruptive potential across many industries but is still early. Infrastructure, services and "picks and shovels" tech will be important here. Find her @annawbarber. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

I'm also tracking the growth of esports - both amateur participation through leagues, analytics platforms and training solutions as well as new tech around the viewer experience for pro esports - lots of exciting stuff here. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From state-of-the-art clean energy solutions to breakthrough podcasting platforms, here are six tech startups you should be keeping an eye on in 2023, and beyond. The Palo Alto-based company uses emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology to tackle pressing questions in cancer care.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Platform Newsletter 118

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? Here’s what’s going through his/her head: Is this story “newsworthy” or am I being asked to publish a press release? ” Can you imagine that ever getting inches in the press?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of the Associate Press's mobile phone applications, may benefit from the AP's announcement last week of a new business unit specifically targeted at taking advantage of the Apple iPad. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2021

He and I are both are strong believers that the keys to sustainable success start with building a solid business platform initially, with a strong support structure for scalability, sustainability, and long-term leadership. New and existing companies today need to press beyond what was, through what is, to what will be.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. To try to understand the service's strategy, we spoke with Bryan Hertz,CEO of Telcentris, the parent firm of VoxOx.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

In a press release The Disney Accelerator highlights the success of Sphero and announced: “They have a multi-property lineup for this year including the App-enabled Ultimate Lightning McQueen, the voice interactive Spider-Man, and more.”. “And Hoodline also analyzes data sets to unlock insights for businesses and media companies.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

It is a platform for talent discovery, and a platform for fellowships to manage their programs. It's also a platform for writers. That's been our focus, on centralizing talent discovery on the platform. I had a screenwriter friend in Los Angeles, who asked me to work on a service for him. What is Coverfly?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

The unexpected arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic led the LA-based startup to rework and accelerate its original launch plan — shifting its first focus to getting a telehealth service up and running fast. Early growth in visits is running at 100%, month over month, per Carmy.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Stained Glass Labs (SGL), the first Glass and wearable technologies accelerator has launched the world’s first comprehensive app directory and a self-service app publishing portal for Google Glass pre-launched applications. Entrepreneurs will also be able to communicate with the Bloggerati and showcase their products to the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). from Charter’s subscribers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. Read more: DST Press Release. LivingSocial.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 30, 2014

There have been many business gaining the good, the bad, and the controversial press from social media. of their platform and looks to expand on its current algorithm and take it to a new level. “We At this point, all the services they provide are free. also offers a premium service at $25/month or $250/year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches. The SimpleGeo API will provide you access to these services. OTHER DEALS: 1. Employees: 20.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. this service will continue. Charge the right prices for the right services – But as less people take the DVD service over time, there will be less revenue to cover the relatively high fixed cost structure of the mailer (Qwikster). No time soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As of 2014, GBF has provided $20 million in support, one-third of the way to its $60 million goal. · Making a Service Year Part of American Life. Commitment by: The National Service Alliance, Cisco, and Lumina Foundation. Commitment by: Bluedrop Learning Networks.

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Training Networking Funding Services 71

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I see many good video companies (media companies, mobile apps, distribution platforms, monetization platforms) but it’s often hard to distinguish good from great. Second, videos that we do share end up in fragments across Facebook, Instagram, cloud services, email or text messages. That’s where Shaheen did his magic.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

Alon Goren: Basically, what we've done, is we've built a platform where anyone can raise money for anything. We're an all-inclusive site, for anybody and anyone, as long as you're not breaking the law, as long as you're returning products and services we'll let you do it. What is the idea behind Invested.in? Anybody, for anything.

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Sites Startup Invest SoCalTech 237

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. When pressed not enough of these entrepreneurs can answer questions about why users would still be using this product in 5 years, about why their product is going to solve a consumer or business problem that isn’t being solved today.

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Similar service to Verisign for SSL certificates and e-commerce transactions and McAfee SECURE (HackerSafe) for online retailers.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. How have you been growing the site and getting the word about your services? We have done lots of social media campaigns, and we have really collected with the music ecosystem, such as labels, bands, venues, press, management, and street teams.

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Whether it be guest posting, creating a press release, generating videos, listing one sites in a high quality business directory, or creating citations, high quality link building is sure to help increase your rankings on the various popular search engines. Utilize Popular Social Media Platforms. Offer Discounts.

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Commerce Search Engine Optimization Sites Marketing 58

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter. For example, we thought it would be a great way for PR companies and others to tweet about something, and then send a note at the same time to their client--ie, take a look, this is running in the press today.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2017

He and I are both are strong believers that the keys to sustainable success start with building a solid business platform initially, with a strong support structure for scalability, sustainability, and long-term leadership. New and existing companies today need to press beyond what was, through what is, to what will be.

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Company Companies Startup Mentor 55

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In 2004, there was just rudimentary usage of web sites, and now, we've got cloud based, software-as-a-service. What makes us unique, is we've got an automation platform which allows you to deploy in any of those ways. We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000. READ MORE>>.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

” Last year, I was introduced to Karma’s company and services from a friend. Amanda explains hardware production and the company’s decision to build their platform on Clearwire , an independent mobile broadband company (which was recently acquired by Sprint), and the ultra-fast pace Karma wanted to build.

Outsource Development 108

Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. It’s a pain that we’ve all experienced with “4-6 hour” delivery windows and prehistoric online, tracking, and customer service experiences.

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Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

To help you get the most out of your Hues, I tested 20 of the most popular, highly rated iOS apps to come up with a top 5 list of must-have apps for using your Hue light bulbs (iOS is the dominant platform for Hue control, and all these below work on both iPads and iPhones): 1. First off, practicalities. Huemote (free).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

It’s like a press junket for online with public access. The conference is primarily targeted to people with a passion for the YouTube platform. Bienstock’s firm, Semaphore , provided business advisory services to top YouTuber Philip DeFranco aka “ SXEPhil ” and his company DeFranco Creative in its sale to Revision3.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Instead of BS’ing me he said, “we spent 18 months building out our product and a set of graphic editing tools when we realized we had developed in the wrong platform. If you’re in front of a customer and you had some very public bad press that week don’t pretend it didn’t exist.

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Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version?

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. We're expanding the men's offerings, and also launching into two other verticals, gourmet food and wine, and services and experiences. But, we've seen so much interest in the flash sales space, we saw an opportunity to raise more capital, and use that to press on the accelerator.

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Sales Email Startup Sample 224

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I am really bullish on data-as-a-service. It is the new cocktail party conversation.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Despite bad press (Silk Road, Mt Gox, etc.) A snapshot of some of the projects mentioned: International remittance services. Trading platforms. Platforms for contributing Bitcoin to political and charitable causes. Joyce predicts a lot of money coming from a few investors. Escrow applications. Bitcoin specific job boards.

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Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104