Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. Media relationships. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. Startup DNA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” If you are in the realm of the 47% of small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the new book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Build your brand and expert visibility.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. We are seeing lots of traction in the 14 cities we are live in, and people are wanting to work with us, including bands, PR people, management firms, the venues themselves, and local advertisers. It's really been word of mouth, really viral, because we've never advertised.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008 -- WebbyConnect Summit. The inaugural WebbyConnect, held in October 2007, brought together over 250 Webby academy members and leaders in interactive media, entertainment, advertising, design and politics to explore the future of the Internet and emerging media. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008 -- WebbyConnect Summit. The inaugural WebbyConnect, held in October 2007, brought together over 250 Webby academy members and leaders in interactive media, entertainment, advertising, design and politics to explore the future of the Internet and emerging media. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 -- WebbyConnect Summit. The inaugural WebbyConnect, held in October 2007, brought together over 250 Webby academy members and leaders in interactive media, entertainment, advertising, design and politics to explore the future of the Internet and emerging media. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo!

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tal Siach is a life-long serial entrepreneur who has mastered social media as a guerrilla marketing tool. I began our discussion by asking Tal about his use of social media to blunt Intuit’s threatening suggestion that Mint was participating in false advertising regarding the manner in which they were counting “users.”

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 -- Digital Breakfast LA. The Series brings together top tier professionals from media, tech, finance, law and advertising for a discussion of cutting edge issues in the industry. The Digital Breakfast is coming to LA.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Basically, that disruption is 18-34 year olds have changed how they consume media. How did you decide to launch HitFix? Jennifer Sargent: Our timing was interesting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Current round: $4. See: TechCrunch.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Tongal is a website dedicated to those who have the passion to develop new and exciting video advertisements for companies. 250 to win the best idea for an advertisement and up to $25,000 for those with the best video. Today’s advertisements are slow processes and rarely translate well from the TV to the internet and vice versa.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

I left MySpace in 2008 to help MySpace to monetize its inventory better. As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. We also license our ad serving technology to publishers, advertisers, and other ad networks. It is really important to be connected to social media.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. You could just outspend. It is to out friend.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

ZexSports and PacSun are putting an amazing panel together to discuss the value of key social influencer's, where they are on your social network, and how targeting these potential brand evangelists will have a positive influence on your social media network and ROI. Jonathan Nafarrete is an emerging photographer and social media consultant.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. Zac Brandenberg: I've been in the advertising space, and in online advertising and interactive for much of the last ten years. Tags: videogame games media social neopets hydra meteor entrepreneur interview brandenberg.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Their product offerings can benefit business from different perspectives from the producer, to the advertiser, to the end user — they have covered it all flawlessly. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities. WOW, right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. They neither frequently use nor derive much satisfaction from social media, and would be classified at late adopters of new technology.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. We did a successful trial in 2008. How is the company funded?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

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. We closed our fund in August of 2008. We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 17, 2012

Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. I look forward to working with the Company’s dedicated employees to bring innovative products, content, and personalized experiences to users and advertisers all around the world.” Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And second, that Curate Media will be the corporate brand and organizing unit. There's also an extremely important media aspect to the model. About 1/3 of our model is around display or standard media. Second, we look at advertising/brand/and marketer appeal for that audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. Online advertising platform for local businesses; ReachLocal reported over $203 million in revenue for 2009, compared to around $146 million in 2008. million loss in 2008. million, compared to a $4.47

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. Once people are engaged with a sound bite, they're most likely a user who wants to engage further with that media. Our job is to help capture some of that demand.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Recycled Bride earns revenue from sales commissions, premium memberships, and advertising. Tracy was married in 2008, and found the wedding planning process frustrating and expensive. And the Recycled Bride Blog provides information and inspiration for brides who want to plan a fairytale wedding without blowing their budget.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. Internet advertising is good. No, it’ Startup 2.0:

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. Mark Suster: I would say we were hesitant in 2008. We were hesitant in 2008, because we saw a lack of realism in valuations. It's in the DNA of entrepreneurs. The second thing we look at is the quality of the idea.

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