socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported its results Thursday, saying that it had a net loss of $5.6 Demand Media said the revenues numbers were driven by continued momentum from its owned and operated sites. Demand also mentioned strong direct brand advertising sales helped its results. million on revenues of $79.5M.

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Demand Media Santa Monica .Net 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2021

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. and.me (for Montenegro), as well as allowing companies to set up their own top-level domains. Starting and name a company today is a world-wide decision. Certain extensions such as.tv

Startup 136

Startup Pricing Tips .Net 136

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

After presenting a “state of the company” report at a national meeting of resellers for a company where I sat on the board, I was approached by one of the audience members, complimenting my presentation and stating, “I have a problem. I’ve been offered $15 million for my company and my partner is suing me for all I am worth.

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Sales Web Design Web Entrepreneur 149

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. My real message is that the best angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

Startup 135

Startup Keiretsu Platform Invest 135

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. which he sold to AOL.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. John Tomich: OneStop Internet is an e-commerce services company.

Commerce 203

Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

He told us all about what the company's trying to do. John Ellis: If you're a buyer looking for original artwork beyond what you can get at a big box retailer, such as an interior designer, or if you're looking for affordable original art, you can come into our site and purchase original artwork through the site, directly from photographers.

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Westlake Village Yahoo Commerce Social Network 164

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Jerry Brown signed into law a bill which taxes Internet retailers if they have California affiliates, a move which looks to have major impact on local companies who use Internet affiliate marketing. One, is the issue of whether Amazon should have to collect sales tax for California. Last night, Gov. That was the purpose of the law.

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CPC Santa Monica Southern California Sales 279

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. How is the company funded and backed?

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. Net result and reward.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. My real message is that the best angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

Angel 96

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 96

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Startup 108

Startup Invest Patents Outsource Development 108

Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5). In many cases, before the sale is complete, you’ll also measure your cost per lead (CPL) as in-between step in order to collect data about the user to remarket to them.

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5). In many cases, before the sale is complete, you’ll also measure your cost per lead (CPL) as in-between step in order to collect data about the user to remarket to them.

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, Robin's latest startup is Internships.com (www.internships.com), an online site focused on aggregating internship opportunities and providing resources to potential interns.

Startup 223

Startup Content Sites CTO Coach 223

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. and.me, as well as allowing companies to set up their own top-level domains. I suggest following these steps to get the name you need for your business: First pick the right company and matching domain name.

Startup 87

Startup Pricing Tips .Net 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. My real message is that the best angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

Angel 67

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 67

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. No company exists in a vacuum. Make your solution and company symbiotic but better than competitors.

SEO 53

SEO Tips Newsletter Statistics 53

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

Startup 93

Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT because the founder of the company has an established credibility working for both Facebook and MINT when those companies were in infancy. It’s the only site aside from Google I go to every single day so that I don’t miss out on an incredible offer. NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools.

Metrics 87

Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site.

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Platform EC2 Java S3 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. For those who haven't visited your site, what is FitOrbit? Thanks for talking with us.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. Big and Small.

Stickam 71

Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. One of the other things we do very well, and where we have engineering expertise, is we provide one-off, interactive IVR solutions for media companies in the Los Angeles Area. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

“While most angel groups don’t post a list of members, they do publicize the companies they’ve funded on their websites,” says Richard Sudek, a member of Tech Coast Angels , a group in southern California whose members invested about $6.2 “Most have a strong desire to mentor and help build companies.”

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Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely.

Stickam 60

Stickam Content Draper Web 60

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. Big and Small.

Stickam 40

Stickam Draper Technical Review Sample 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

We sat down with Michael Kantor, the firm's CEO, to talk about the service and the company. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. What's the business model behind the site? What's the idea behind Orgoo? Finally, how are you funded?

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we got tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. Today is the day! Big and Small.

Stickam 40

Stickam Technical Review Draper Venture Capital 40

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

We put a code into th epages on a site, which allows us to measure the results, and we build a database to track it real time, and connect the two. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

We put a code into th epages on a site, which allows us to measure the results, and we build a database to track it real time, and connect the two. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Working with professional athletes combined with my natural leadership ability and experience in business development makes me uniquely suited to lead a technology company in the health and fitness industry. Bobby’s strong sales acumen, genuine charisma and leadership abilities make him an invaluable asset to the founding team.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. For our readers who aren't familiar with Kadonk, what's the story behind the site? That's the case with every other company we know of and who we have talked to. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. If you have a virtual company with your employees working from home locations, as many startups do, it should be the location of the founder.

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156