Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Every year, a personal Upfront Summit highlight is getting to sit down with experts in a field I care about. I encourage you to watch the entire 30 minute video (below or here ) both for insights into Quibi and understanding how a leader like Meg thinks about innovation, but I’ll also pull out a few highlights.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

When people think Walmart , they don't often think of the retail giant as a technology leader. However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. You must invest in technology. I’ve written about that, too. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

When people think Walmart , they don't often think of the retail giant as a technology leader. However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Last week, we talked about layoffs and the Winklevoss rock gods. Things are happening so quickly right now that even seasoned crypto investors seem to be feeling uneasy about this one. Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. crash redux.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here are some items to think about: Have you defined the functionality? Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? Do they have experience with the technologies involved in your project? Is user interface and graphic design a necessity? Or is your project a clean slate? Are they publicly available?

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. Is it possible to use technology to replace the age-old system currently in use in insurance?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Last week, we talked about about the “de-stonkifying” of the market. While Meta is managing to ship more and more Quest headsets, there anecdotally hasn’t seemed to be much interest in the company’s Horizon Worlds platform and there are few shortcuts towards finding an audience on an unproven hardware platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During its big VR and AR-focused event Thursday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major new title headed to its VR platform that should turn a few heads. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is on the way to the Oculus Quest 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2017

If you want to know more about her company you should read the above link because her presentation at the Upfront Summit was taking her vision several steps beyond the current scope of our next few years plans and talking about her hope of helping to develop systems to save humanity. I know I did.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Scopely doesn’t shy away from developing aspects of the platform technologies that have powered Epic and Unity to their own multi-billion valuations, but it isn’t selling those tools to other companies, Driver said. And the company has an eye on the future. ” .

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When people talk about “online food delivery” services, chances are that they’ll think of the Uber Eats, Instacarts and Getirs of this world. “We are still the first mover in this space,” Xu said when I asked him in an interview about rivals. I think B2C is really going to slow down going forward.”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. For those not familiar with s Warner Media Camp, what is it all about? What attracted you about these particular companies?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2015

The company recently announced a funding round, led by True Ventures, so we thought we'd talk with John about what the company is doing, and why he believes search technology is so important to apply to recruiting. Tell us about Connectifier? Recruiters can access that search technology in one of two ways.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The only problem here, according to the American Association of Advertising , is that a 30-second piece of video costs about $324,000 to produce. The platform sports a vetted network of film industry leaders that will make commercials for as low as $900, filmed in as little as two hours. “We’ve

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

DogVacay.com, the fastest-growing, Santa Monica startup, passionate about using technology to build a community where dog lovers can connect with one another to find and provide safe, convenient and affordable services to care for their best friend. startup technology employment jobs' Senior IOS/Mobile Engineer , DogVacay.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Great sales people are also direct about asking whether the individual that they’re speaking with controls the budget. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Even though I love technology, I always cringe when an entrepreneur starts his investor pitch to me by touting his new technology. They have forgotten that new technologies are perceived by most customers as causing more pain than the problems they eliminate. Is your product tempered with actual market and customer feedback?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based CarbonBuilt, a startup developing "low-carbon" concrete technology, said yesterday that it raised $10M in its Series A funding round. CarbonBuilt explains that producing a concrete block using its platform stores about 3/4 pound of carbon dioxide.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. So they see a responsibility to install the necessary technology to properly run their business.”.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

We spoke with CEO Matt Levin to hear about how Donut Media is looking to speak to the Millennial car enthusiast through both its online videos as well as social content. The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms. It's pretty broad.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2013

The Social Promotion Management Platform is for businesses of all types – small, medium and enterprise. Even with its simplicity, quality is not sacrificed as the platform produces professional, graphical campaigns at low-cost points. The post PromoJam 2.0 | The Social Promotion Management Platform appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

What's the best way to reach out and recruit diverse candidates for your technology company? we spoke with co-founder Chuka Ikokwu to learn more about the startup and how it's helping companies to recruit more diverse workers. is all about? is an HR tech platform that makes it very easy for companies to source diverse talent.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. The video conferencing platform welcomes over 300 million daily users, and enjoys some of the best name recognition in the industry — and for good reason.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2020

For those who haven't heard of Emburse, talk about what you do? Eric Friedrichsen: Emburse is all about expense management and accounts payable automation. We brought them all together so we can get a lot more scale, and innovate a lot faster, across all six of those expense reporting software platforms.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. Hardware makers have invested billions to improve the technology, and they’d like that money to not go to waste.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2019

Burbank-based Causecast , which developed an online platform to help employers increase employee engagement with charitable causes, has been acquired by America's Charities , a nonprofit focused on getting employees to support causes they care about. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2014

We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. What is Tapstone all about? Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. You have technology and strategy to maximize ROI. About five years ago, I got into digital advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Even though I love technology, I always cringe when an entrepreneur starts his pitch by touting his new technology. He has forgotten that new technologies are perceived by most customers as causing more pain than the problems they hope to eliminate. Let me be clear – technology and market-driven need not be mutually exclusive!

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

If you think about it, in a multi-player game, for example, you have a very limited vocabulary for interaction. You can move around in the game, you can shoot someone, and you can die, but that's about it. The other nice thing about that, is as things are happening on the same computer, there is no server code to write.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Mumbai-based Haptik, which operates a conversational AI platform , has already won several high profile clients in India. The move is part of Haptik’s broader strategy to both expand its technology expertise and team and business overseas, Aakrit Vaish, cofounder and CEO of Haptik, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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