Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. The experiences and lessons Jen and I have gained since leaving AOL to build our own media brand have been numerous. Has Been Acquired by Global Digital Media Business appeared first on Tech.co. The post Tech.Co

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Dorsey was co-founder of Twitter, and also co-founded mobile payment service Square in 2009. Disney said the move will give it a perspective into the "latest technologies and platforms" to reach more people, due to his influence in the social media and commerce space. READ MORE>>.

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Burbank Technical Review Social Media Hollywood 113

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Until recently, three legacy providers (Sizmek, PointRoll and Google’s DoubleClick) have dominated the rich media market. But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 -- Mobile Experience 2.0. After years of dialog on mobile convergence, what has actually converged on the mobile platform is the high quality experience, spurred by innovations in Media Content (Video, Music, Movies, T.V.), in an open Forum at UCLA. See [link] (more).

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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. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The DataPop team is building a platform that enables real time creation and delivery of highly engaging ads to consumers on a massive scale. We’re excited to work with them.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2012

Sam Altman: PartyEarth is a global media and entertainment company. Sam Altman: We launched in November of 2009. We launched in November of 2009, an dit's been an amazing experience to date. In addition, we're really building out the community and social platform, in addition to the mobile platform.

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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. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, There are tools and solutions needed to handle Social Media 1.0,

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Why are they doing it on textPlus? People like free. I could go on & on.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry. So, how long has the company been around? We've been live for around thirteen months.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial. Read more: peHUB.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. We are focused on well developed, new mechanics in gaming, and providing users the ability to play on numerous platforms, not just Facebook itself, and provide an innovative experience. Why the interest in that area? READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In recent years, the company has expanded beyond its core technology to help its customers track their customers through affiliate marketing, display advertising, and online search and social media, and to target market segments with specific product offers. “We For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript. It’s been about data.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The ROI was solid.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. in 2009 the market was completely constipated as investors focused on triage.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. TechZulu caught up with Recycled Bride and here is what we found!

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Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

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). Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. iAd platform was formally launches in July 2010 as part of iOS 4.

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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. This sounds somewhat similar to Demand Media, how do you compare what you're doing with Demand? The same with eco/green.

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Content Demand Sites Media 165

Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

I saw an opportunity to bring enterprise software-like selling methodologies to digital advertising and support that with a platform to make the selling and buying process more efficient. and there is an independent trading platform supporting it (SABRE Systems) that enforces pricing rules, and that an entire ecosystem has grown up around.

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Advertising Sales Software Platform 59

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0. The first video was created in a couple weeks by the team back in 2009 with the intention of continuing to create great content for social media. “We Readitfor.me

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Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. After IAC, I started my own company, MerchEngines, which was a search marketing platform for local businesses. That was a rocket ride as well, and that took us to a top 10 website, and NBC took an equity steak in the company.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There must have been some reasons the stations did not embrace the platform, because--from what I gathered--there were not a lot of stations actively participating in the system. Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. Media is exploding.

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Google Advertising Media Startup 124

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&#. Lissn, in my opinion, has the potential to become an amazing platform to engage users in a global dialogue.

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Startup Sites Social Media Newsletter 76

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. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. We'll do a rev share with those platforms.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The company's main target is e-commerce sites with rich media. Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. Teacheo - an online tutoring platform with a live virtual classroom. The site attracted seven million French-speaking travelers in 2009.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

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. I worked in Hamburg for about two years, making investments in early stage media and technology companies in Western Europe.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. 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. We want to help them, and will.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable. We rode the recession wave, as all people became bargain hunters.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

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. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. We'll do a rev share with those platforms.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. Outside of refinement, there’s going to be a big push on cross-platform apps that aren’t built in the native languages for those platforms. Some of these are universal across all the platforms, whether iOS, Android or Windows Phone.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. The drivers would save money on gas and I would have a comfortable ride to my girlfriend’s city” – And just like that, the carpooling platform was born. Our original German site, mitfahrgelegenheit.de , was founded as a student project in 2001. In the U.S.

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