Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Take a look below and give us a shout. Contributors.

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Technical Review Software Review Writing News 71

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we have tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. For double points Like Us on Facebook and leave a comment on our page on the product you want to see covered. We want to hear from you as well and get what you are really interested in. So make sure you Follow @techzulu.

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Social Media Newsletter Mobile Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Accounting and Taxation for Startups. At the inception of a company the entrepreneur typically focuses on product development, RandD, customer relationships and sales and marketing.Often, accounting and taxation are overlooked. See [link] (more)

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OCTANE Startup Equity Sales 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. 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.

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Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 21, 2012

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 -- Social Media  Beyond Targeted Ads. And youll review the top Social Media sites to understand which ones are best targeted for your market.Panelists: Becky Carroll, Founder, Petra Consulting; Patrick Howell, VP of Product Evolution Design, Neubloc; Anita Cohen-Williams, President, MySearchGuru.

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Social Media Media Research Design 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. While everyone developed their products throughout the day, SWLA teams briefly said hi to Marc Nager (StartupWeekend CEO) during a quick Skype call who was down in New Zealand facilitating Startup Weekend.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly. It's all about leverage.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. ” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 29, 2013

LED technology is on the trend of becoming the new light bulb, with its high energy efficiency and longer lifespan. LIFX is taking that LED technology and adding a Wi-Fi and RGB light. The tech behind the LIFX bulb gives consumers a money saving and environmental safe product. million for funding in around 6 days.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Startup Design Technology 68

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. Let's start on the technology side--can you tell us about the technology, and its origins? It's very simple, from the technical perspective.

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

As a CG Supervisor at Hydraulx , Morris led CG on blockbuster hits, 2012, X-Men Wolverine, Fast & the Furious, Bedtime Stories, and Australia. I have worked on CG films where the script was re-written half way through production several times,” explains May. Although, you always have to start somewhere, so the script kicks us off.

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Technical Review Technology Examples Malibu 90

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Visions pan of endless cold emails and long days attending meetups and pitch nights while your operations/tech team grind away. These aren’t art projects, garage-electronics, and pre-production concepts. And in doing due diligence on hundreds of companies, we know exactly what to look out for.”

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Invest Startup Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation.

Venture Capital 101

Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 101

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning.

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Press Startup Technical Review Email 97

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

They acted on instinct understanding people would be searching google to solve a problem, not find their brand, so they named their channel the solution to their product “ curebadbreath ”, rather than the boring ol’ brand name. They had the YouTube general community do video reviews on their Orabrush tongue cleaner. A great script.

Dollar Shave Club 101

Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

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. Talk about what your products are used for? We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm.

Software Review 140

Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. But honestly 10 extra hours in the office each day we would be there is way more productive.

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

Set to come on Groupon Reserve s are premium deals and experiences from top beauty, product, travel and entertainment brands and also reservations for spas, salons and hotels so as it can give customers a discount on purchase without requiring pre-payment or vouchers. with more cities coming by year end. Premium Deals.

Marketing 61

Marketing Entertainment Los Angeles Tool 61

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 14, 2012

According to Google’s SEC filing on the 3rd this month and signed on the 13th 2012 Google will go ahead with and reduce the motorola unit’s 20,000 employees by 4,000 with two thirds of the cut in the US. Google will also simplify Motorola’s mobile product portfolio to profitability. Motorola annual financial report is here.

Layoffs 63

Layoffs Google Mobile Patents 63

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Want to be an entrepreneur? Techpreneurs.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. Those brands have pretty good products. What's your background?

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Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

As we know, developers always give their product a code name. We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. We restrict money transfer to South Africa while we conclude our due diligence on international money transfer partners. The name just stuck!

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” Tech Companies most certainly do take calls. Tech Companies & Calls: I once read a quote on Twitter that said, If you use a tech service for free then product is you. As I said, YOU are the product.

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Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

For instance, Kids React reviewed a video by DeStorm , while the Gregory Brothers incorporated Kids React into their hilarious Chuck Testa video. The subscriber numbers and their relative ranking are as of mid-May 2012. Dre featured then unknown Snoop Dogg on his solo debut The Chronic , effectively launching Snoop’s career.

Google 133

Google Develop Development Funding 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Our best known and first product was the KidZui browser, which we started as a paid service, went freemium, and went entirely free in October of 2010. We're taking our skills on reviewing content, and getting out of the way. Why original content, and how much did you look at production costs for content? It goes both ways.

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Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Also, since most funds are 10-year funds there will be pressure in 2012 for this fund to start exiting its investments and return money to its shareholders.

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. likely relate to.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. What a boring mess.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology. Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas.

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Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65