socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? It's not in my make up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. To compete, startups must find ways to provide customers an easier, faster, more pervasive connection to digital networks, via mobile as well as the Internet.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

However, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to grow technology innovators from the ground up. Los Angeles has seen its own startup scene develop with Silicon Beach, which stretches between Santa Monica and Playa Vista. Hachi : Hachi puts the “networking” back in social networking.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup. Andy Steuer: This is the eighth startup I've been a part of. What is Punchcard?

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. But I never gave up. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Well, you shouldn't have to be -- or at least, that's the premise behind Payoff.com (www.payoff.com), a new startup launching today. To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. I built up the company, the Walz Group, with partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). And a great product starts with the founder. Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I’ll make my next posting shorter. I get that.

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MAY 18, 2015

Come take a tour of some of the hottest LA Tech companies and Co-Working spaces filled with Startups & Entrepreneurs located in Hollywood! Starting Point. 110 Los Angeles, CA 90028 (Starting Location). Our community is filled with creative companies, all on the up swing, generating lots of positive energy in the space.

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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. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. It's really helped to legitimize the space.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. How long has Bccthis been around?

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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. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. It's really helped to legitimize the space.

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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. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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MARCH 2, 2012

With consumption of online video up “400% with the release of the Iphone 3G back in 2009” (MacRumors, Eric Slivka) and the numbers ever growing, it would be tough to testify that we aren’t as a globe, obsessed with online video. Tech-wise, I started coding as young as I can remember. (To

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JULY 10, 2012

Insteegram is a startup that allows you to create amazing and unique t-shirts using your own Instagram photos. Ed Park was one of the first 100k users of Instagram back in early 2009. “I found it to be the best social network, connecting people on a deeper level. People stopped worrying about social status.”.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. The company's main target is e-commerce sites with rich media.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A few weeks ago, Beverly Hills-based Meteor Games , the latest startup from the founders of NeoPets, announced that it had hired Zac Brandenberg as its CEO. These are what you might consider traditional, Facebook casual social games. How did the firm start? As a comparison, most Flash games, and particularly on Facebook, are 2D.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And I’ll tell you why, starting with where you started and why you succeeded. 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. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Lisa Nicole Bell – CEO of Inspired Life Media Group. Thank you @eminutes. . We want to help them, and will.

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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 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Dec 26, 2009).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). What do you like about the US startup scene? Who are the founders and what are their backgrounds? Any user stats?

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MAY 11, 2011

The best part about being a writer who covers startups is seeing revolutionary ideas take shape from their infancy. His idea and subsequent business plan won the Wharton Venture Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Wharton Business Plan Competition. This situation is solved with the use of PayDivvy. by %, by $ amount).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. Share Buttons Work… In A Way Share buttons on your post help your content reach a greater audience by creating easy channels to social networks. Just a thought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent.

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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. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. They also avoid Reg D.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. On the other hand were everybody else including those that tried to make a full time of it like Robert Scoble as well as those that did it as a side job like VCs, CEO’s and start-up entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. I completely agree with her, but Ive found it to be really difficult to: Meet People within a given Geography Online who share passion around Technology, Start-ups, etc. Weve done one so far, and its great.

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