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13 Articles match "Los Angeles","Metrics","Startup"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu . Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
So he went off to launch his own startup.
The company he started is only about 2 years old, but he already made enough mistakes to nearly shut it down. They started out developing Facebook apps. Noah said they "were a top five developer with seven million users, so we actually started having investors come to us. If you like this interview, vote for it on my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles? They build obsessively user focused products, do a fantastic job at virally driving a ton of traffic, but usually have their head up their ass when it comes to making money.
Los Angles founders are hustlers and deal makers. Most emphatically, Yes !
I’ve
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles . It's like a dinner discussion where a topic is discussed, then the group moves to the next topic. Yes, blogs has been touted as a place to have conversations, but Tony is doing Visible Networking by starting the conversation in a blog post, then continuing the conversation in the comments. In this post, Cliff provides some feedback on what works when you move towards doing business networking online. I'm trying to get
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community . The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The content comes from other places.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the metrics and measurements for Mergers and Acquisitions in the online space with one of the best experts in the field.
We are joined this month by Shawn Colo , the Co-Founder and Head of M&A at Demand Media . TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE
Shawn created the original concept for Demand Media and executed the simultaneous acquisitions of eNom, eHow and several domain-name portfolios which launched the company.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. Mike Starkenburg: The company was founded in 2000, and was started in Manchester, UK, by a handful of computer vision specialists. How did a company started in the UK end up here?
Mike We spoke with CEO Mike Starkenburg -- a former venture capitalist at the Sprout Group and longtime reader of our newsletter -- about the firm and its technology and how it's revolutionizing facial animation in both computer games and the movies.
Tell
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be focused on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. There will be an open and frank town-hall conversation discussing the metrics and measurements for Mergers and Acquisitions in the online space. Startups Uncensored is a free monthly speaking series, town hall, and networking event for entrepreneurs and technology aficionados, hosted by Jason Nazar, CEO of Docstoc.com . Shawn Colo , Co-founder and Head of M&A at Demand Media, will be sharing with you how he and his team successfully sourced, negotiated and completed over 30 acquisitions.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
So he went off to launch his own startup.
The company he started is only about 2 years old, but he already made enough mistakes to nearly shut it down. They started out developing Facebook apps. Noah said they "were a top five developer with seven million users, so we actually started having investors come to us. If you like this interview, vote for it on my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu . Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. The fund is just celebrated Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?
Brian
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