TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The company’s stock tanked by more than 26 percent, representing a $230 billion reduction in market cap and a $31 billion drop in Zuckerberg’s personal net worth. The point is, this stuff is hard, and the people who have been building in public are hurting even as they spend billions to develop the tech.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , an online site which caters to males, announced today that it has signed a deal with liquor maker Southern Comfort to develop a branded content project, "Social Sportz Net".

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.Net Entertainment Content Los Angeles 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). hours of TV / day.

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Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas? Be vivid virtually.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup .Net 139

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. Gaming developers. Suggest a speaker!

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Once Larry and Sergey developed search’s secret sauce, PageRank, they backwards-integrated into server-side software technologies to power and scale search. Although Google doesn’t create every piece of server-side infrastructure that it needs, it has developed quite a few. Search is just another web application.

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Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas? Be vivid virtually.

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Entrepreneur Social Media .Net Blogging 103

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN).

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. The promise is so great, but the reality is that if you aren't developing something that matches with the models they provide then it represents a challenge.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. One of my responsibilities at DreamWorks was new media. Tell us a little bit about what FastPay is about?

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Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I happened to come to him for advice, about finding a technical advisor, and where to get a developer�and half way through our conversation, we said�you know, we could pivot his business into this one, and he already had a team with technical expertise. He was doing what Evernote does, letting you exchange business cars with a cell phone.

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Startup Organization ACG Networking 100

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. The final piece is online coaching, which allows people, 7 days a week, to click and talk to a professional development coach, and help them go through questions, answer things like what should by resume look like. What is CareerArc?

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. It’s OK, You Can Create Kick-Ass Web AppsAre you tired of getting verbally beat up about developing web and HTML5 apps? It’s OK you can fight back.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Frothy startup valuations.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. The net-net, is they want to simplify their lives, and we've given them an application that allows them to simplify their life, save money, and share.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. The reverse also happens--if one of our users wants to call Skype users, they can do that purely on the net, without using the PSTN.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2017

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas? Be vivid virtually.

Entrepreneur 66

Entrepreneur Social Media .Net Startup 66

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 17, 2012

Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. ’s products will continue to enhance our partnerships with advertisers, technology and media companies, while inspiring and delighting our users. 13 plus years of product development. Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo!

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Yahoo Artificial Inteligence Google Design 51

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

This is where she first developed sales skills. “There are so many places you can go on the Net where you can find your community. Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. She doubled her salary by going into sales. I would tell women to find them.&#.

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Startup Sales Venture Capital Entrepreneur 311

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In a recent book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net “it” out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas? Be vivid virtually.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Social Media .Net Startup 112

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

In a book on this subject from a while back, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net “it” out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas?

Startup 101

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media .Net 101

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Design and Development. Design and Development. Design and Development. Design and Development. Evolution of Social Ads and Earned Media. Your Network=Your Net Worth. Culture and Entertainment. Getting Started with Social Data at Scale. Culture & Context: Making Augmented Places. Work and Career.

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Entertainment Startup eBook Outsource Development 73

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

No surprise, Shkreli weighed in during the media frenzy with support for Mylan. —South San Francisco, CA-based Denali Therapeutics, with ambitions to develop drugs for several neurodegenerative diseases, bagged $130 million in a Series B and unveiled a series of deals. Morgan party. Alex Lash contributed to this report.

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Pricing Thousand Oaks Startup Research 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. He then dove into a keynote Q&A with Dan Held , developer of recently acquired Zeroblock LLC. Getting Things Started. The ultimate plan?

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Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

We’re all so caught up in social media marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) that we tend to forget one on one relationships are the most powerful of them all. With no safety net in play, just peace in his heart, he stayed and let everyone he knew in Indy know that he believed in the city, the people, and growing tech scene.

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Startup Technical Review Search Engine Optimization Los Angeles 104

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

” Clearly, the right time to trumpet your product is when it can live up to the media hype. Put it out on the Net, see what the reactions are…If you build something that starts to resonate, then you can start to… get into tech blogs and talk to the press and tell everybody what you are doing.” Business development is sales.

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. Uber's development of its marketplace is a textbook example of how to do it right. Too bad, as the initial funding round has increased over 4,000 times in value, making a $250,000 investment worth more than $1,100,000,000. Nope, that’s not a typo.

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Venture Capital Email Invest Services 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

A huge thanks goes out to the Social Media ClubHouse (SMCH3) for helping put this all together. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. Media Temple hosts websites. Its like a match made in heaven. Big and Small.

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Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up. Every business can benefit from video, whether they're a law firm, a restaurant, a hotel, or a plumber--we're casting a wide net on the kinds of businesses we work with. That's really our business plan.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2021

But since I was trying to end my day at 1800 “net calories” (total calories minus workout calories) being able to snack without blowing my daily totals was awesome. During my weight loss phase I tried not to go over my net calories target more than 3–4 times / month. For me personally I developed a couple of ways to stop my implosions.

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.Net Startup Course Social Media 349

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

(Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. Latinos drove 69% of total net increasing in U.S.

Media 269

Media Content Course Technical Review 269

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

He was the National Basketball Association (NBA) senior vice president and oversaw the league’s team marketing and business operations, advised NBA and WNBA teams on ticket sales and service, sponsorship development, and marketing and also managed the NBA’s Canadian business, Relationship Marketing, and the NBA Development League.

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Ticketmaster Entertainment Pricing Class 65