Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ 58 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2021, up 5 million since 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ 57 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2019, up 4 million since 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures. Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. What is Pledgeling? How did you decide to get into this as a company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last Monday, Jan 6th, marked the culmination of AT&T’s Developer Summit at CES 2014 along with the release of open APIs for its U-Verse platform on Android. Android Apps Apps & Software Dev & Design Entertainment Gadgets Gaming Mobile' The company launched the original program back in 2011.

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MARCH 10, 2017

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. So, as you are heavily into the mobile area, what have you learned over the last few years?

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Tech.Co

JUNE 14, 2024

Instead of offering one primary grant opportunity, the platform lets entrepreneurs search through an assortment of listings, and filter the results with various criteria such as deadlines and funding amounts. The non-profit has given out a total of $130,000 since the origin of its Foundation grant in 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Get beyond push messages to real customer engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Yet someone the raw nature of filming & consuming on mobile is new. I built it on a platform given to me for free by a company that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of which I receive value. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014. The best mobile companies do this. It’s very intimate. YnJM8aeru9.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. When the glass is only.04%

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

Today, larger mobile screens and touch interfaces are allowing people to do real work—not just e-mail—with the computer they have, wherever they are. Like a dream, or a nightmare, e-mail—which is still the go-to work productivity app—became 100 percent mobile, available anytime you wanted or needed, day or night.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

You use it in a very similar fashion to how you PCs and mobile devices use their operating systems, so you don''t have a stovepipe solution where a UAV can only be useful for one purpose. Starting in 2014, we expect to start having major announcements of companies who are releasing and bundling drones with our software.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. How did you two connect?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

Incentive , the Venice-based socially powered mid-market and enterprise collaboration platform has created a secure solution that takes the pain out of collaboration by centralizing all content into one place. The platform empowers companies and their employees to work, share, communicate and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2014

Now Breathometer is poised to evolve into a “breath-based medical diagnosis platform that has the potential to reinvent point of care. He soon realized that the Breathometer would be much more than just a blood alcohol content measurement device. The post Breathometer | The Pocket-Sized Life Saver appeared first on TechZulu.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ In the US, 55 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2016, up 6% from 2014.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Phoebe Scott: The really big thing we''d like to get going in 2014 is mobile. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started. Now, we see that over fifty percent of our users are accessing us from mobile devices. What''s the next big thing for you? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2015

Understanding Mobile UX. If you want to do mobile UX, then you should understand both Android and iOS for tablets and phones. Let’s look at 2014, Apple and Android launched a new version of their phone and tablet OS. Also close to the end of 2014, virtual reality headsets really started to get some publicity.

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APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. Joey Flores: Yeah, we spend the earlier part of 2014 exploring acquisition options, because we had a pretty hard time raising money.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The ROI was solid.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. This honor was presented to ShipHawk, described as the kayak.com of shipping, allowing users to ship anything, anywhere from one platform. “We

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. Trading platforms. Platforms for contributing Bitcoin to political and charitable causes.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. The report notes that in general, the companies that prioritize mobile had modest budgets.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Brooks joined the division in 2014 after spending 23 years as an investment banker in Europe and the United States, but his strategic vision for the future of digital technology and computing is only now becoming manifest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Mobile and new generation consoles are being adopted at an astounding rate, and all the while gaming has become an increasing social outlet. Indiegogo, “the world’s funding platform”, was also in attendance. Typically, instead of spending two years on a game; on a mobile and social games…typical cycle is six to nine months.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

“We know we need to communicate more” he says, and in many instances, mobile developers also need to open themselves up to automotive needs in regards to safety and production. A crucial issue as mobile devices continue to become more integrated, since at the heart of the discussion, lives are at stake.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

With this in mind, we figured it would be a great opportunity to get a direct look from someone who’s been immersed in the field, and spoke to Chance Barnett, CEO of LA-local investment platform, Crowdfunder. In order to encompass both, they need to build a large platform. A Huge Risk for 2014? ” Platform Focused.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. That was a pivotal moment.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. That was a pivotal moment.

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