SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011 -- Using Social Media to Rediscover and Reinvent your Brand. Striking this balance is essential to effective brand marketing in the digital age, and those who do it well will breakthrough to new, niche audiences without sacrificing brand identity. What are the risks? What are the rewards?

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Social Media Media Marketing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that I often see, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 93

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2011

Friday, April 22, 2011 -- The Rise of Inbound Marketing: Adapting Marketing to Changing Customer Behaviors and Demands. Online marketing and social media have dramatically changed the marketing practice. Marketing is still about knowing your audience. See [link] (more)

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011 -- Facebook's Impact on Entertainment PR and Marketing. Learn first-hand from an all-star panel how the entertainment industry is using Facebook and other top social networking platforms. Social Media Week LA. See [link] (more)

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Entertainment Case Study Marketing Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. The market is moving back up, but slowly. If it’s not enough, don’t do it. How’s the timing? In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.

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Social Media Media Draper Startup 89

socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of predictive analytics software for the marketing industry, has raised a big, $38M funding round, the firm said Monday. MarketShare, which is co-led by Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, said the financing will go towards its technology platform and accelerate growth in markets worldwide.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: 7 Tactical Tips To Use Facebook In Business (PLUS: Learn how Palms Las Vegas uses social media to SELL rooms) Our Featured speaker, Josh Ochs, is the grassroots marketing founder behind Media Leaders, the social media strike team that manages twitter/facebook for (..)

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Social Media Tips Education Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

TechZulu is excited to invite you to a fireside chat with Greg Cargill, VP of Client Services and Social Media at BLITZ. Greg will share his experience on how to Successfully Build and Sell an Effective Social Media Marketing Agency. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza & Drinks! Venue Sponsor.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 -- Seth Godin Live and In Person. Linked Orange County is hosting an unprecedented night of networking open to the public with special guest Seth Godin - best-selling author, A-List lecture circuit speaker and marketing guru. Seth Godin has literally written the book on marketing - over a dozen times.

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Orange County Social Media Media Ideas 100

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011 -- Managing Your Innovation. We have discussed Intellectual Property, Prototypes, Marketing, Social Media, Grants, SBIR/STTR Programs, Test Partnerships, Development, Commercialization, and Access to Capital. Metropolitan Water District. See [link] (more)

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Social Media Resource Design Ideas 100

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- Young Digital Entrepreneurs. The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab welcomes a panel of tech-savvy innovators to discuss the digital market and social media and how they won success by engaging audiences. Our panelists come from several industries, including retail, tech, agency and social.

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Entrepreneur USC Social Media Media 100

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 -- PR for Startups. LAVA.Successfully marketing your startup to customers and investors can be challenging. Get tips on mastering social media and earning coverage for your company in the press and on the web. What do you do if you build a website and all you hear are crickets?

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Startup LAVA Social Media Tips 124

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

TechZulu gets some questions answered for all you marketing folks out there. Patrick Starzan is the Vice President of Marketing and Business development at Funny or Die. He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience.

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Sites Marketing Social Media Social Network 61

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The equity round will help it built more compelling technology to analyze social data to provide deep user analytics, actionable insights and personalized offers for its clients. Co-founded in 2011 by Sina Sohangir and Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GraphDive raised over $1 million in initial funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Cameron is responsible for SEO and social media across CBS Interactive’s properties, which include CNET, Last.fm, CBS.com, Metacritic, ZDNet, CBSSports.com, CBSNews.com, and more. Clicker was acquired by CBS Interactive in March 2011. He loves to surf, ski, ride motorcycles and most other adventurous activities.

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Startup Social Media SEO Santa Monica 105

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. What is massively different from now and when I wrote the book is that social media didn’t exist back then. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. I am just willing to grind it out.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

They are looking for coders, roboticist, marketing managers, and community managers, to fill the areas of their Green Tech, Social Media, Big Data, and Enterprise companies. When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011. That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies.

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Idealab CitySearch Social Media Pasadena 95

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 17, 2011

Congratulations to our good friend, best-selling author and social media thought leader Brian Solis! He will be heading up as Editorial Director and Host for 2011 and future Pivot Conference's. Solis will take over the reins from Chris Shipley, who will be focusing on her position as chairman and CEO of Guidewire Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joey Flores, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Earbits (a Y Combinator Winter 2011 company). Earbits is a marketing platform for music related products built around interactive radio experiences. We give you simple, plain-English suggestions that help you become a dangerously powerful social media wizard with zero effort.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

It was cofounded by Michele phan in November of 2011. Social media allows women to seek out other, like minded women, and learn from them. Before that, I was heading up global consumer marketing for entertainment, sports, and video at Yahoo. We caught up with him to learn more about IPSy and its subscription business.

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Commerce Content Sample Yahoo 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Their featured speakers, who range in marketing and business expertise, will lead four intimate breakout discussions. and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. Garth pioneered Klout’s first Influence Marketing campaign with Virgin America.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Marketing: SteelHouse. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Social Media: Snapchat.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joey Flores, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Earbits (a Y Combinator Winter 2011 company). Earbits is a marketing platform for music related products built around interactive radio experiences. We give you simple, plain-English suggestions that help you become a dangerously powerful social media wizard with zero effort.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Social networking isn’t social. Founded in 2011 by twenty-five year old Alex Capecelatro , At The Pool serves over 3.5 Apps & Software Entrepreneurship iPhone Marketing Startups Alex Capecelatro application At The Pool Geo-Location iOS Location Mobile' million people in over 100 countries.

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Mobile Social Network Examples Organization 92

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. There are so many different routes a person can take to enter the industry, such as design, buying, production, marketing, eCommerce and styling to name a few.

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Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Once a campaign has been created, there's some level of marketing and call to action, which can be through traditional media, or the web. Daniel Scalisi: I've been in the mobile market for fifteen years. I have two successful exits, mostly in mobile and teh web, as well as social media. How is the company backed?

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Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I got to see how different marketing and middlemen in the industry, such as Teleflora, 1-800-Flowers, and FTD, operate. The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder.

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Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Will Zell (CEO) is based in Columbus, OH, and is an Empact100 entrepreneur who was honored at The White House in 2011. A graduate of Ohio Northern University , Ferres built a digital marketing agency called BounceFire , which was acquired in May 2011 by a company in Phoenix, AZ. Who are the founders/ background?

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