SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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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. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen. OTHER DEALS.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. So let's talk about ThisNext.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 13, 2011

Started in 2009 by founder Myke Armstrong , he believes Lissn is reinventing online conversations by creating a unique user experience, by allowing user to chat with two people at a time and allowing anyone to “lissn&#. The site is simple and easy to navigate with a contemporary interface. There are two options: Talk or Lissn.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Talk a bit about your recent funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. He then joined their venture fund, TheMailRoom Fund, which is where I met him. And of course we had, TheMan. with the clips.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Are you interested?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. the funding and market coverage. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. LivingSocial.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. You could just outspend. There is a much better technique.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

As Mark states below “Forums are the original social media&# , people sharing information across the web on all sorts of different topics. Vanilla is forum software that powers discussions on over 400,000 sites around the world. Are you Funded? How did your company get its initial funding? We are funded.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. Beginning with hip hop in 2009, they’ve since included different genre verticals into their model with rock, poetry, news, even bible.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Marketing Director for Paypal Inc. CapLinked was founded in late 2009 by Eric M. As an investor, Christopher also appreciated how frustrating it could be on the other side of the table, where investors often go for months without hearing from the entrepreneurs they trusted with their funds. Jackson and Christopher Grey.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Ash Maurya, WiredReach.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 1, 2010 The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. This should not deter you.

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