YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. US technology companies are also benefiting from the expansion of the global middle class. They are not alone. Global Demand.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. in Computer Science.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Encino, California-based technology and online sampling company uSamp just introduced SurveyBuilder™ ( www.surveybuilder.com ), an online self-service solution that provides online survey authoring tools that allows small to medium businesses, non-profits and academia to create and populate online surveys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. get the attention of the market they choose.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Okay, so now you have it narrowed down and have determined that you need: Part-Time CTO or Technology Advisor to help guide you and close a bit of the Startup Founder Developer Gap , and Equity-Only Cofounder Developer - the first real developer that will work for equity and produce the bulk of the application. Ask them about your concept.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Due to the incredible power represented by these networks, we believe that managers need a system to understand and monitor the ever-changing value of this key asset.

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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. These days they generally do not invest in technology per se, even. A startup that is building a scalable service should not be inventing new technology unless there is no other option. There are many services for which California is a good starting point (e.g.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Young developers can be easily caught up in the challenges associated with app monetization, like technology fragmentation and keeping up with innovation. As the number of users increases, you can provide incentives for these users to share your app on social networks. He’s absolutely right. The monetization challenge.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. non-public technology. technology, business information. _. new technology. An intellectual property strategy will map out: Who are the key players and technologies in its market(s)?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram. Koum read more about computers in California.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. Not Knowing Enough - Unfortunately, you also cannot get into a conversation with a programmer and not know the first thing about the technology. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Startup conferences - like last week's DEMO Conference in Santa Clara, California - are great opportunities for young companies to not only gain some exposure, but to network with other like-minded entrepreneurs. But how does a small startup go about licensing the data and technology of other larger companies?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. Not Knowing Enough - Unfortunately, you also cannot get into a conversation with a programmer and not know the first thing about the technology. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Technology Live. Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2014

billion users, spending 700 billion minutes on the network every month. In the United States, 58% of the population use at least one social network, and that number leaps to 98% for those aged 18 to 24 years old. And yet, I still have organizations or consultants tell me, “my customers aren’t really on social media.”.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

First up today was John Boyd with MeetingWave , a social media platform that caters to university alumni associations and addresses the challenge of helping them create walled-garden professional and social networking groups under their own brand, as opposed to groups within Facebook or LinkedIn. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

billion, according to recent figures released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence, IAB Europe and IHS Technology. MassMedia has also successfully utilized advertisements targeting mobile users of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. billion to $19.3 Gartner, Inc.,

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. That is sudden change, brought about by the fast acceptance of the cassette, which in turn gave way to the next technology, CDs, after a rather short lifecycle. Source: Wikipedia Common license.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. 20 years ago, the technology adoption curve generally conformed to the following order: Government —specifically Defense and Intelligence organizations. They do not allow their employees to use their credit cards to buy technology off of the Internet. Meet the new boss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2015

The gap in demands of internet users now compared to ten years ago is just as vast as that between the technologies of each of these two eras. Small videos are nowadays being incorporated not just on websites and social networks but even within ads. Easily Viewable Content.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. The transformation in the economy has been profound.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. Perry and company initially proposed the oxygen concentrator as part of a pitch for a contest sponsored by their school.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

I chose information technologies and from that time I was submerged in all things computers but always found a way to marry art with technology. The internet explosion becomes the definite integration of art and technology for me and I was very interested in every aspect of web design and programing. I won a friend.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

First, in the late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. That is sudden change, brought about by the fast acceptance of the cassette, which in turn gave way to the next technology, CDs, after a rather short lifecycle. By 1975, there were only two.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references. Looking ahead to the product launch, the marketing group hires a public relations agency to refine the positioning and to begin generating early “buzz” about the company.

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