socalTECH

JULY 20, 2020

El Segundo-based Carbonated Games , a developer of mobile games, has raised $8.5M Carbonated focuses on developing "highly competitive" games for mobile devices, which are more in line with the hard core games found on consoles and PCs, rather than the more usual casual gaming market.

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El Segundo Electronic Arts Seed Funding Mobile 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. The world is going mobile. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

2020 seems like a decade away into space, however Motreal-based reelyActive, the winner os Startup World Competition , is doing just this. The startups software associates the identified people and “things” with their existing online data. According to Cisco the number of connected “things” will balloon to 50 billion by 2020.

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Competition Startup Social Media Software 83

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm is putting its money behind one of the winners of its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, New York-based Enterproid , Enterproid revealed Thursday.

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San Diego Competition Google Mobile 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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Patents Software Review Software Technical Advisors 53

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Equipped with diagnostic software that can assess problems with vehicles based on their owners descriptions and service trucks that can handle most maintenance and repair work, Wrench meets fleet operators and consumers at their vehicle’s to provide servicing and repairs.

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Demand Services Los Angeles Mobile 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 30, 2012

Texting and driving has been taboo for over a decade since the ownership of mobile phones have continuously increased. On September 7th, Coloft in Santa Monica, California will be hosting the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon. On September 7th, Coloft in Santa Monica, California will be hosting the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon.

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Mobile Santa Monica Competition Organization 63

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Display advertising. To use online display ads to generate leads, you post ads on websites frequented by your target audience or ones with content related to the ad. Email marketing.

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Marketing Invest Social Media SEM 114

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

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Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Competition Screening Resource Startup 78

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products.

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Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

How about a mobile app which taps the power of its users to find cool and unique spots in their city? What's the best way to find local tourist locations? Newly funded and launched startup Crash --backed by Idealab--said today that it has launched its iOS-based attraction discovery app and website. Idealab says it is incubating Crash.

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Idealab San Diego Incubator Guide 228

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the speed of change and volume of market feedback today, as well as the advances in machine learning, Amazon, Alibaba, and others have proven the value of software driven strategy decisions. Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality.

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Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Display advertising. To use online display ads to generate leads, you post ads on websites frequented by your target audience or ones with content related to the ad. Email marketing.

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Customer Custom Marketing Startup 146

Xconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new mobility company, Cerence , is making its public-market debut Wednesday, and its first CEO, Sanjay Dhawan, says he’s been meeting with more than 50 investors in recent weeks to talk up its prospects. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Artificial Inteligence Mobile Competition Activity 52

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APRIL 18, 2019

This year we’re in > 100+ cities and 100+ campuses and we’re operational with street teams, better software, better bikes and a more informed ridership. They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. It really does put things into perspective, doesn’t it?

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2009

Pasadena-based Central Desktop has jumped into the enterprise micro-blogging area, saying Monday that it has launched a new tool which allows companies to use Twitter-style updates within the firm's project management software. The new microblogging tool, like Twitter, also supports updates via mobile phones, using SMS. READ MORE>>.

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Yammer SaaS Pasadena Blogging 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

One of the companies recognized in Qualcomm's QPrize annual business plan competition has scored a series A funding, four years after being named a finalist in the Qualcomm effort. Singapore-based Capillary Technologies , a developer of mobile customer relationship management (CRM) tools, said it has raised $15.5M

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Funding San Diego Competition Mobile 168

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The latest salvo in the increasingly competitive sector is a $50 million investment in Alto Pharmacy, a San Francisco-based “digital pharmacy” startup that has offices in Denver. Like others in its industry, Alto offers online ordering and delivery (including same-day delivery) of prescription drugs.

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Commerce Competition Mobile Invest 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash I was listening to Dan Primack’s podcast on Pro Rata and he was interviewing Senator Klobucher who is now publicly and vocally speaking out against Uber purchasing Grubhub and has tried to mobilize against this.

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SaaS Customer Custom Technical Review 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The group is hosting an all night hackathon starting Friday, October 19th which will put up to fifty programmers against each other to create new web, mobile, or desktop apps on the theme of film and technology. The group is offering up a $2500 first prize, $1500 second prize, and $500 third prize for entries in the hackathon. READ MORE>>.

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Technology Southern California Startup Content 185

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Twitter has rolled out its own mobile applications in competition with third party Twitter clients; its own link shortener; and its own advertising service. Tags: adly twitter facebook tweet advertising software. The firm is backed by Greycroft Partners, GRP Partners, and Matt Coffin. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners Advertising Idealab Social Network 191

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2012

Gamification fuels that drive and brings the competition to technology. We see it in web applications, mobile apps, project management tools, etc. BunchBall’s Nitro, delivers a comprehensive set of game mechanics for websites, social communities, and mobile applications. billion actions each month.

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Platform Mobile Startup Software 93

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. We also operate the network software than runs and manages the entire network layer, from access point to end point. We have Renaissance making our chips.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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Company Companies CTO Coach Funding 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 12, 2015

While the global economy has proved to be fertile soil for launching small to mid-sized businesses, there has never been a time in which the competition in the small business arena has been as intense as it is currently. BPM software programs help to provide the agility that is becoming increasingly necessary. Cost Efficiency.

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Ideas Software Review Competition Satisfaction 40

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

Winners of the competition will be awarded space in the Wearable World Labs program incubator space in San Francisco as well as the opportunity to partner with American Airlines on product development. American Airlines is a leader in technology,” Phillip Easter, Director Mobile Apps at American Airlines said. “By

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Technology Conference IBM IBM 104

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition. This is 14% of world population and 33% of all people online. For me this was a simple market analysis.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. When comparing competition, don’t use fuzzy terms such as improved usability, faster, less expensive and more productive. Quantify your value over current market alternatives.

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Capital Competition Case Study Patents 63

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform. Watch CoSchedule pitch at TechCo Startup of the Year Competition. Another local company, CoSchedule , just attracted $2.2 What makes Fargo an ideal place to start a company?

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Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. .” The approach was clever and novel.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

socalTECH

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. That's how Barry came in.

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Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100