Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. 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.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Sophisticated digital consumer devices such as the iPod, Xbox, Archos PMP, and Mobile Smartphones along with the broadband networks that connect themhave quickly moved the distribution of content to the digital world. See [link] (more).

Enterprise Forum 100

Enterprise Forum CalTech IP Content 100

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2009

According to the firm, the deal covers the 2009 Baseball season, and will give RotoHog's Fantasy baseball players access to RazorGator's ticketing services. Tags: rotohog razorgator sports games content. Financial details of the relationship were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Mission Ventures 100

Mission Ventures Content Los Angeles Capital 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 19, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- Using Social Media to Market Your Business. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. One of the hottest recent stories in the tech industry has been the rapid rise of the messaging service Twitter. San Diego Venture Group. Special Keynote Headliner: Guy Kawasaki.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Marketing San Diego 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 12, 2009

Saturday, April 18, 2009 -- In Control: Who Will Own the World of Social Networks? Is my content still mine? Meanwhile they tire of repeated data entry, are leery of ever-proliferating and incomprehensible "Terms of Service," and outraged when a site overreaches. They are questioning "what access do 'friends of friends' have?

Social Network 100

Social Network Networking Advertising Sites 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Just before the holidays, we caught up with Blair Harrison , founder of Frequency (www.frequency.com), a personal video service which lets consumers watch video from the Internet on any of their devices. Blair Harrison: Frequency is an Internet video service. What is Frequency? We touch on all three.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Services Organization 232

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Total raised: $1.0mm – Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy. . Special thanks to our partners: Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app. All of 2009 was figuring out what people want. What's special about the application?

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. This added the number of services closed or combined to thirty and as usual paving way for superior ones. Another service facing the axe is Google Talk Chatback.

Google 68

Google Technical Support RSS Web 68

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If I'm a woman, I might really be into fashion and beauty, and would be more apt to engage with content and community and engage in the shopping experience around that vertical, versus a horizontal brand across verticals. All those sites will crowdsource content through a passionate and engaged community around lifestyle categories.

Content 165

Content Demand Sites Media 165

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

-Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. We launched it with KNX on March 21st, 2009.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers.

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

According to the 2009 Tribalization of Business Study by Deloitte Development, one third of all online communities now launched by businesses fail to engage even a hundred participants. Engage customers with relevant and valuable content. A new book by David L. Customize your interactions to meet unique customer needs.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Startup Networking 91

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

Almost any name of a product or service, and many generic domain names are available in.LA. Page Howe: I've been a fan of the domain since 2008 and 2009, having grown up in LA, lived here, and seen the story here through the good and the bad. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms.

Social Network 100

Social Network Startup Mobile Google 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

They specialized in content creation. Like Gary Vaynerchuk, Cunningham built the family business 10 fold through creating branded web content with a viral touch. Cunningham walked into his office one day and thought, why wouldn’t I make content with the information from my favorite business books, but speed it up and make it visual?

Startup 76

Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content.

Incubator 40

Incubator Develop Development Social Network 40

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

PowerMark www.thepowermarkgroup.com , Southern California's premier full-service marketing and. April 24, 2009. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. We put the "Service" back into Internet Service Provider. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com).

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

By providing insight into the genetics of disease, as well as access to relevant testing, services, and support, AccessDNA helps people better understand how genetics can impact their healthcare and lifestyle decisions. Laughstub : Laughstub is a full service ticketing solution for comedy clubs. with the clips.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We have a heritage in enterprise portals, content management, and middleware, and we help you connect to your back end systems and present all of this to the user in a great experience, which connects across all of those different touch points on their journey. How did the shift come from consulting services to a product?

Diamond Bar 169

Diamond Bar Customer Custom Organization 169

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. And 450 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold since its launch in 2009, making it the fastest-growing operating system ever, and showing us that Windows is going to keep controlling the OS market share.

Writing 88

Writing Training Email .Net 88

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. I realized that I should build a platform to put content. myself and two women who do customer service and tech support for me via phone and email. using a checkwriting service, where with a click of a button we send out thousands of checks.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

When the market crash hit in 2009, the financing and M&A business dropped dramatically throughout the entire investment banking industry. Most importantly, we are focused on premium quality services. There is a content shift that is happening, and LA is well positioned for that. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 100

Southern California Invest Media Content 100

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about?

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

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. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. Brandon Hance: We launched our beta in February of 2009, and quickly put together powerful partnerships. One of them is with ReverbNation, which as 600,000 musicians signed up to their service.

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

You can also use the service to network to your next job. Gregg Champion: I had been a vice president of development at ManiaTV, a Gen-Y content site. I think they were ahead of their time, before broadband users and all that, but it really did give me insight into where content is moving to, and where users are moving to.

Social Network 100

Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. I headed up product development to build out their portal services. After Go Network, I joined the team at Xoom.com, which was the first wave of user generated content on the Internet. I was employee seven or eight there.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. In 2009 I launched version 2 and asked the talented designers at TurboMilk to do a logo. I felt I had created a useful service, but needed a guy like Steffen to turn it into a real business. So it really got a good start.

Design 65

Design Web Design Google Develop 65

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

The best-performing ads are often custom, high-impact rich media ads that integrate seamlessly into a publisher’s content with interactivity, video and other features. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.

Advertising 40

Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Prior to joining FM in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. The idea of a “retweet” as an endorsement and as a way to “share” someone else’s content within your feed and with your followers, was relatively new (outside of blogging). I audited my content.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter.

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. And I’ve talked openly about why many services businesses should not feel product envy and chase the commensurate growth rates. It’s now the foundation for Salesforce Content.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review 390