socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. Jimmy Hendricks: We actually started two and a half years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I met up with Sam in NYC last year to talk about “what he was up to.” I was in NYC and I lined up my usual 20 meetings on my trip. His message was that he realized he needed to move his girlfriend’s stuff into a storage facility due to apartment flooding. They built the software. Startup Advice'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. was starting. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We started that in 2002, and it's actually our eight year anniversary, on the 20th of September.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I started with a Top 10 list for Nivi (at VentureHacks), but I couldn’t cram it into 10 so it became a Top 11 list. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. In no time after they had researched their market they were up with pilots with local TV stations in 3 key DMAs.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2018

At Xconomy we know how hard it is to be a startup founder. We’re always meeting bootstrapping entrepreneurs who take that lean startup model a little too literally. So we have some exciting news for startup teams! Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. million in nine months. Echo Labs image).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. That goes beyond just a phone call or I can't get up and have fallen.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. in deals tracked by our database. in a March deal.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2017

This is the direction we’re headed, according to Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute of Telecommunications & Information Technology at UC San Diego. In 2011, Smarr diagnosed his own Crohn’s disease long before.

San Diego 63

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). Anyway, the starting point for this blog entry is a cartoon I remember reading in the New Yorker.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. In addition to that, we provide the ability of customers to review that with analytics. How did you start NativeTung?

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Call them tech hubs or startup capitals, they are drawing in our nation’s venture capital dollars. In July 2018, my venture capital firm, Alumni Ventures Group (AVG), encountered an investment opportunity in RealSelf, a marketplace that features reviews of providers of medical aesthetics and cosmetic treatments. Silicon Valley.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review Platform 97

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites. What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? Marc Friedmann: I was actually brought in about a year after they started.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2018

Roughly every three years, someone steps up and boldly claims the security software industry is going away, and they are probably right—much like there is a strong chance of the cold energy death of the universe. However, neither is likely tomorrow.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, Investors are no longer compelled to stick to their own backyard, and Southern California is changing the startup landscape, consistently ranking in the top three along with Silicon Valley and the Boston area. 11 hrs ago.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. The key here is to provide visibility to everyone along the process--not just at the start, when you put it on the wall, or email the project plan to everyone.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. What's the idea behind OpenCandy?

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Software Review Software Startup Examples 100

Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies.

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Technical Review Product Venture Capital Software Review 65

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. When I started, I was one of the only people signing up affiliates.

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Startup Design Advertising Search Engine Optimization 80

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. Why did you start Chi.mp, and what does it provide? It's your place on the web, a home, where ownership starts by owning your own identity.

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Even though most services are usually not subject to sales tax, some states are now asserting that certain online services are taxable either as software, data processing, or information services, even if the type of service would not be taxable if delivered the old fashioned way – by people – rather than computing platforms.

Sales 62

Sales Company Companies Software Review 62

Xconomy

MAY 29, 2018

When it comes to connected homes, the hottest spot is located in your kitchen. The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and related technologies are being used to connect ovens, refrigerators, and other kitchen appliances to the Web. Feeling unsure about cooking that fish dish?

Artificial Inteligence 85

Artificial Inteligence Help Startup Web 85

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The first round of pitches are due this week. “We have a window of opportunity to start incorporating security measures on the front end.” “We have a window of opportunity to start incorporating security measures on the front end.”

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Research Technical Review Conference Software Review 111

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Redwood City, CA-based startup had sounded its own death knell on July 28, announcing that it planned to shut down Aug. 3 due to the slow growth of the VR market and a fundraising attempt that fell through.

Software Review 52

Software Review Startup Services Marketing 52

Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Social Media News Software Review 71

Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Apple’s iPhone 7 is due out next month. Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. The biggest change: no more headphone plug. Let me explain. Microprocessors have speed to burn.

Software Review 40

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2018

A takeoff on the sharing economy, the empathy economy will grow due to brand mania and increased automation in the workplace. The “empathy economy” will help define the new reality of human and machine interactions in the customer service industry.

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Customer Custom Services Technical Review 75

Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

The national origins of tech devices and services wasn’t a front-burner question—at least for the general public—until the issue came up at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in May on Russia’s suspected hacking of the 2016 presidential election. Leaders of six U.S.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

A Bay Area virtual reality startup is about to add new dimensions to the sync-watching experience for viewers of NBC News’s coverage of events leading up to the presidential election on Nov 8. The use of biological metrics and neuroscience in marketing is starting to expand to political research and campaign strategy-making.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review News Social Media Startup 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2016

When we started PawnGuru , we knew that financial tech could be harnessed to work effectively for low-income and underbanked consumers. It’s also due to the relative lack of technological expertise in the industry, which has fairly low margins and not a lot to invest in innovation. Our timing was good.

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