SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 9, 2012

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 -- Maverick Angels Open Evening for Entrepreneurs. There will also be an example presentation from a successful entrepreneur that recently presented to our group. You will hear from a few of our sponsors regarding key issues currently facing start-ups. See [link] (more)

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Angel Startup Examples 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

He provides several examples of how he used this approach to advantage in his own career. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets.

Startup 98

Startup Customer Custom Entrepreneur 98

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Thursday, February 9, 2012 -- The Employee-Ownership Alternative: Building the Company You Want. SAIC is one great example; there are now many more. Entrepreneurs have choices about the kind of company they want to create. See [link] (more)

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Equity Examples Entrepreneur 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected.

Riot Games 191

Riot Games Los Angeles Technical Review Venture Capital 191

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 -- TechBiz Connection Presents. You will learn: Real life examples of social media success stories; How to define ROI for Social Media; Lessons learned and how to avoid the pitfalls; What is coming up that you must prepare for now. Social Media. Does social media marketing work?

Social Media 100

Social Media Media TechBiz Examples 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 27, 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012 -- Licensing Fundamentals for the Business Executive. To further demonstrate the points, it will use example clauses specific to pharmaceuticals, biotech and software, but the concepts will be universally applicable to all industries and subject matter. What is a license? link] (more)

IP 100

IP Examples Software Technology 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

For example, data center companies will continue to take losses, go out of business, or get acquired on unfavorable terms even as all indications point to extreme shortages in data center space by 2013. Markets will stay irrational longer than companies stay solvent. A large firm will overpay to jump on a bandwagon that has long left reality.

Media 168

Media Cloud Computing Press Examples 168

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The TMP is an example of lean academia. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013. Organic Academia.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For example, removing the friction of mistakes and extra costs by sending a customer shoes in 3 sizes to see which fit best, with easy and free returns for everything. 2012: Tony Hsieh interviewed about the Downtown Project. These videos may offer a glimpse into who Tony was and what he was all about.

Commerce 198

Commerce Statistics Customer Custom 198

TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

Note that the Windows configuration presently retains the Linux-hosted database server—only the web/application server is running Windows Server 2012. Kohana, for example, refused to process requests that provided Cookies it was not expecting to receive, responding with "A valid cookie salt is required. Please set Cookie::$salt."

Framework 524

Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Ambitious and motivated graduate-level and undergraduate (junior and senior) students are encouraged to apply for our internship positions: Business Development Intern (Summer 2012): Have the opportunity to work with and learn from TechZulu leadership while focusing on research, analytics, relationship management and collateral development.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Software Review Writing News 71

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Not every international market matters, but some are larger than life. with demands for new products and services.

Marketing 94

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 94

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” After a brief overview of you, your company and your solution I recommend putting up some example clients you’ve worked with, although you obviously need their approval first.

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. We have an entire dev team dedicated solely to calendar integrations, for example. And today it was listed in the Best Apps of the Week by Apple.

Development Team Review 324

Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. In 2012 Miigle was just in its beginning stages. How much has the product changed from where it was in 2012 and where it is today?

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. Good-cause crowd funding. Debt-based crowd funding.

Funding 99

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 99

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

He’s leading the charge in our investments in agriculture technologies, for example. And he led what is currently our best performing company out of that 2012 fund – AdoreMe. He led our investment in 6sensor Labs , which has patented techniques for screening food for gluten and peanut allergens.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Artificial Inteligence Invest Funding 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. RingRevenue grew it’s revenue 3x 2010 over 2011 and is on track to grow more than 3x again in 2012 with no signs of slowing. Here are some data provided by a BIA / Kelsey report (2012). … phones cost money, phones do not scale.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

It’s not hard to find examples of games that didn’t succeed even with [support from] WeChat and QQ.” Ever since WeChat rolled out its content publishing function — a Facebook Page equivalent named the Official Account — back in 2012, articles posted through the social networking platform have been free to read.

Tips 149

Tips Activision Mobile Tool 149

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Sure, there are examples of Founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule.

Startup 89

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. Some examples There was an A-prime round of a high-profile deal coming together. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. I Leaderless Rounds. Non VC Growth Rounds.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Funding Seed Funding 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Pinterest said earlier last year it had topped Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined, for example and beat Twitter in February the same year. With 28 Million Users by December 2012 Pinterest commands a huge social network that’s the population of New York City, three and a half times over.

Sales 101

Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2015

Back in 2012 when the Flame virus was wreaking havoc across the world, the need for army-trained hackers became a whole new frontier for IT software companies. Israeli software companies are the perfect example. The threat of hacking and loss of data has never been real than now.

Training 40

Training Software Company Companies 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. For example, Frequency is connected into people's online presence, through Facebook, Twitter, and their YouTube account.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Services Organization 232

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A layperson would be excused to think that in 2012, questions about how to store data on computers have been worked out. For example, although the risk of being abandoned by a popular NoSQL platform are low, there is virtually no risk of MySQL, Postgres, or Microsoft SQL Server being outright abandoned in the next decade.

Platform 227

Platform Startup High Tech Develop 227

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

We then spent the first half of 2012 beta testing the product, getting feedback and input to the point where we could start selling it. We launched it in March of 2012, at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago, took a booth, got lots of press, and we've been selling it every since.

Mobile 197

Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

For example, the most popular people born in Texas, the most popular people who are Geminis, the most popular people for each profession--like the most popular comedian or most popular country singer. So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome. Instead, we''re now sorting by popularity.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

My 16 year old was living with his mom this past year as my business of 12 years went under in June of 2012. A great example is the Orbit Baby G2 stroller. I’m a good father and I love them more than my own life. You get what I mean. It was an awesome company with a cult-like following and over 40,000 customers in Socal.

SoCal 174

SoCal Southern California IBM IBM 174

Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. healthcare systems, CEO Joe Smith said late Monday. Louis-based RespondWell.

Technology 74

Technology San Diego Funding Coach 74

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

That's when I started my first company, ScaleFunder, which we spun out of the UC California system in 2012. A great example of that, is Dollar Shave Club. Michael Greenberg: My original background was in theoretical physics, at UCLA. That's where I saw the problem we are solving at Retina. That's the one I've seen time and time again.

Dollar Shave Club 113

Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.” Final example. But mostly they break through the noise of many other investment banks by having a POV. One of the masters of this in the startup technology world is Flurry. And Flurry always gets mentioned.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

And, since 2012, just six counties in SoCal have seen their gross domestic product increase from $992 billion to $1.26 For example, local providers usually have other options when you need to grow your network, including wavelength services and dark fiber , that you can use to meet needs as you grow. trillion. ¹.

Southern California 60

Southern California Services Demand SoCal 60

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. This talk will go deep technically, show practical examples, and connect all the concepts with the costs.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65