InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. I realized that I should build a platform to put content. platform, turned it into an art site, and it just took off from the get go. That's when the light bulb went on. I figured there.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007.

Google 264

Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. We had a concept around creating a platform, using open standards, to resolve lots of the issues surrounding social networking and the issues of identity. In late 2007, Chi.mp There was a collective process in its making, and where it came from.

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

At this stage, both candidates have given major economic addresses, and both parties have published their platforms. The word “innovation” appears 22 times in the Republican platform and 14 times in the draft Democratic platform. Democrats: Clinton said back in 2007 that the U.S. The Democratic platform says that the U.S.

Education 40

Education Platform Training High Tech 40

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. There are tools and solutions needed to handle Social Media 1.0, So, that first part is just understanding how to engage, where, what platforms they are engaging on, and what the value of that is.

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. There's no need for professional services, you can just log in and user our automatic tools and controls, and you can enable highly functional features with just a click of the button.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Towards the end of 2006 I realized that EC2 was transformative and that people needed help understanding it as well as tools to work it.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

YouTube claims the new search tools also help users find videos faster as they give hints as one types the search and lets users sort through videos or channels, comments simultaneously as they watching another video. billion From Ads.

Google 69

Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. We also had to secure the music rights and get musicians on the platform, so that they could benefit from the use of their music.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. We also had to secure the music rights and get musicians on the platform, so that they could benefit from the use of their music.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here?

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in an industry where output is the goal, things start to look scarily homogeneous when everyone relies on the same tools, sounds, sync buttons, and formula for success. So does it become more of a creating or refining tool? Got it, so I see the development team is based out of Austria?

Startup 101

Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. « Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees. How do you approach collection and reporting and what tools do you use? December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). Remove Post.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform. These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

But as I pointed out on the show, look deeper at the impact of social media as a tool to organize crowds, hold public debates and spread information in a decentralized way. The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies.

Social Media 274

Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

While Amazon continues to move “up the stack&# and offer some of these services on their own, RightScale continues to innovate by creating better tools for deployment, monitoring and other functions. Cloud Data Platform. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. Okta solves this and more.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Your customers are all on this product so not trying to grok this platform gives you a few big handicaps: Some VCs on on Snapchat and interacting with them daily on Snapchat and you’re not. Click on the top right tool button and you’ll see your settings with your user name, birth date, email account, etc. Use Snapchat.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386