socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2014

DataDirect Networks , the data storage systems developer which has significant operations in Chatsworth, reports that it is opening up a new technology center in Paris. The company said the move will help enhance its European technology innovation. Financial details of that performance were not released. DDN is led by Alex Bouzari.

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Networking Chatsworth Technical Review Report 149

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. By and large, these workers have not benefitted much from recent technology improvements available to office-based workers—think new email and workplace-collaboration technologies, or advanced sales and HR systems.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Working on it. And being ambitious.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. But the biggest changes in our industry have been driven by technical changes themselves to which we are just observers and fortunate beneficiaries.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

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

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? He noted that, " Throughout the year I review my Twitter followers looking for bots, accounts that have been abandoned, or that are tweeting links with viruses and I remove them. For instance, Yelp calls out establishments which attempt to manipulate their reviews.

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Social Media Media Technical Review Software Review 274

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. I met with Seed San Diego partners Taner Halicioglu and Eric Gasser, who also reviewed the companies and provided their feedback. I widened my net this year.

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San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The firm said today that it is planning to grow its workforce by as much as 30 percent over the next two quarters, due to "significant growth" in online ad spending. Advertise.com said it recently move dinto new office space, as part of that plan for growth, across technology, sales, and marketing departments. READ MORE>>.

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Sherman Oaks Technical Review Advertising Networking 162

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Industry reviews. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Deal screening.

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Help Invest Venture Capital Technical Review 365

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Some analysis and due diligence along the following lines should be performed on every idea, as a reality check, before committing your efforts and other people’s money to building a business: Look for places where competitors are few. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/19/2014.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Technical Review Patents 106

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Foundation was created in 1997 by tech pioneers, Jean and Steve Case.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 137

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals. I think that’s in part due to market conditions being favorable to venture capital and in part it’s due to the significant uptick in Los Angeles as a major tech hub in the US.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. What is Fuel50?

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2014

The Toyota fuel cell concept displayed at CES 2014, called the FCV, is a four-door futuristic looking Prius/Corolla combination. Hydrogen cars will likely be the future of automobiles due to their simplicity, but also because of the positive, long term effects they will have on the auto industry.

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Technical Review Los Angeles Resource Angel 77

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

According to a Harvard Business Review article, many people in history, famous for their inventions, such as Thomas Edison, were entrepreneurs who only later were remembered as inventors of the products they commercialized. Of course, it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business.

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Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

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%. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

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. Cho, a former sales manager for Nikon Instruments and Vala Sciences, founded Echo Labs in 2014.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review San Diego Software Review 40

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). As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. What's the theme of your investments?

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Silicon Valley, in a proverbial hornet’s nest of legal intrigue has been buzzing with one of the biggest (and possibly unsettling) displays of indian giving that the tech world has seen this year. Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then).

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

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. 2013 was a huge year for startup investing to say the least, and with how things have been shaping up in Q1 of 2014, things are going to get a whole lot crazier. Introducing SeedInvest.

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Invest Startup Technical Review Software Review 100

InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". JG: Tell us a bit about Project Impact and 2014''s focus on innovation. Some are using technology in creative ways to customize and enhance the educational experience for students.

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Organization Startup Technical Review Invest 199

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. Today’s customers ignore these sites in favor of ones with dynamic daily specials, promotions and positive reviews easily accessible on their mobile devices.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 103

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Jonathan, who was Founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014), also told us why he got back in the startup game, even though he could be just sitting on a beach in Bali after his prior success. No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Report 106

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. You technically have more gas left but you never know if some unexpected circumstance causes you to run out of gas.

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Startup Companies Company .Net 383

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 15, 2010

In later years (2014-2018) insurance becomes mandatory, middle and lower income people will get subsidies to pay for insurance and other changes will take place. Due to higher taxes and more regulations on business, economic growth will likely be somewhat lower than it would have otherwise been.

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Resource Invest Competition Design 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. Help us review a few deals. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson.

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Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , 2014 was a strong year with IPOs actually outperforming other indices by 10 percent.

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Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

billion collected in 2014. Of course, both are impressive, but according to Rose, angel investing is as poised as crowd funding to take off due to the same online technology, and there is plenty of opportunity for both.

Startup 106

Startup Angel .Net Entrepreneur 106

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2015

Did you know that the Blackberry Passbook is actually selling and getting pretty good reviews? 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. Apple also demoed their watch.

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Google Design Software Review Education 40

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But it has proven something of a challenge to understand exactly what its impact will be for individual businesses — especially in light of the fact that many of its provisions won't take effect until 2014 or later, and could even change between now and their effective dates. It depends on the size of the company.

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Slides Startup Study Resource 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Consumer value Once Jamie realized that he could not only sell tens of millions of dollars of home security cameras he also realized that he could get customers to sign up for a monthly subscription to keep the videos in storage in the cloud and review them after the fact.

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Products requiring changes to government regulations.

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Entrepreneur Sites Technical Review Social Media 101

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. Not having technical backgrounds ourselves, we were fortunate to have friends develop the app in exchange for equity. Is this due to the insurance policy, lack of customer base or just on ensuring timely pickup and delivery?).

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FAQ Startup Technical Review Santa Monica 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Conglomerates, which were the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have proven themselves unable to innovate, and have a tarnished public image due to financial woes and poor management. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

An upside of this environment diversity is visibility into the ways various frameworks and platforms work with the myriad variables of cores, clock speed, and virtualization technologies. In aggregate, the Round 13 results on physical hardware are generally lower due to the older CPUs, all else being equal. Continuous benchmarking.

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Framework Web Platform Web Development 80