socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

So not 2009. So much money is going into social networking and other Internet or wireless consumer options but the more capital rich (technology rich; and excluding clean tech) start ups are seeing tighter money. LinkedIn valued at over $8 billion; Facebook at over $70 billion and star of a movie. Are we seeing a bubble?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 -- Digital Family Reunion 09. The Southern California technology and business communities will gather for Digital Family Reunion '09 at Wokcano Restaurant in Santa Monica.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 5, 2008

The Digital Family Reunion (DFR) is bringing the Southern California technology and business communities together for the holidays at the Skirball Cultural Center. In association with some of the region's top trade associations and social networking groups, the DFR is throwing the holiday party of the millennium.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

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. It's not just a real estate or technology or entertainment town, it's all of those, which we can show off with a new namespace. It's the same for a great domain.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. However, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to grow technology innovators from the ground up. Hachi : Hachi puts the “networking” back in social networking.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We launched it with KNX on March 21st, 2009. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. Here’s a sample of what you might hear on the show: TECH NEWS – Top technology headlines. OSN 101 – Online Social Networking news and tips.

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socalTECH

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? Our demographic is the 22 to 32 year old.

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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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more and hasn’t abated.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This coming Friday December 4, 2009 TechZulu will be streaming live from the Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar. Join us as we explore and discuss popular culture's tropes and cliches that shape our debates about emerging technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. The technology is going to improve so that results are ranked both on age and authority. So, to get listed on the real-time web, it will be important to have more followers, friends, and associates in your social network.

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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

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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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. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year.

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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. If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

To examine disruptive technology and prognosticate on the effects on society as a whole is fascinating. PayDivvy according to CEO Mike Melby is: “the first and only social bill pay solution. PayDivvy provides a smarter way to manage bills by allowing you to pay, send and share bills…simply and socially…via web or mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

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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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. Is this installed software, or web technology? How long have you running for, and what's next?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

It's like an old world punchcard, taken to the current 21st century technology. Shortly after that, the CEO of NBCi and myself started a venture fund, invested in a handful of companies, had a couple of good exits, and then I went on to become part of the founding team at ZeroDegrees, the social networking platform focused on the jobs space.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

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. By placing a “share on Twitter&# button or “post on Facebook&# icon, you make it easy for readers to bring the page to their network and increase your traffic.

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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

MAY 6, 2012

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

I’d personally heard of Startup Weekend back when it got started in 2007 out in Boulder but only attended my first Startup Weekend in late 2009. We ended up winning Startup Weekend LA (Nov 2009) and launching Ming.ly, soon being invited to present at the LA Twiistup conference a month later.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

So with the metoric rise of Twitter now forecast at 45 million as of August 3rd, 2009 (and rising fast), has Twitter Killed the Blogger Star? Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. Suddenly it was about very frequent commentary in a bite-sized format. Now we could all sleep more. Or could we?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization entrepreneur, Startup, Technology. .

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." In fiscal year 2009 (FY09) the proposed effort will amount to a roughly 15% increase of $12 billion. government.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Paperless billing for consumers.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

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. Dec 26, 2009). Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Even Sequoia.

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Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.

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