Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Personalized card-linked offers Edo has raised $15million, ready to set a new trend in the payments and advertising sector. The Series C financing from VantagePoint Capital Partners with participation from Baird Venture Partners and some of its investors puts the firm’s financial nerve to a total $54.3 Personalized Card-Linked Offers.

Advertising 64

Advertising Media Networking Capital 64

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. Both have worked.

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Organization Invest Customer Custom 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. Both have worked.

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Organization Invest Customer Custom 173

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? I decided--why stop fighting this, because this type of advertising just works, and figure out how to do it a little better in the past. What is ClickTripz? READ MORE>>.

Advertising 100

Advertising Startup Software Review Platform 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2010

in an equity funding, and added two directors to its board from MK Capital. Poptent features competitions from such brands as US Bank, E-Trade, Intel, and Salesforce.com on its site, where those firms award a prize to the best, user-generated commercials and videos that fit the brand's parameters.

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Hollywood Equity Venture Capital Content 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project (www.rubiconproject.com) recently had its IPO, making it one of the big success stories of Southern California''s technology startup world. It''s a way to raise capital, and it''s not an exit, and not a liquidity event. We also believed that the market would grow.

Startup 176

Startup Advertising Los Angeles Southern California 176

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. We don’t hear about the remaining several million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Be aggressive and alert.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Berkonomics

AUGUST 23, 2012

Every business has an intellectual foundation where the CEO’s knowledge and vision create a barrier to entry that deflects some or much of the potential competition. Or we do so with brilliant research and development, highly trained sales forces, large advertising campaigns, or secret processes.

Patents 159

Patents Training Resource Advertising 159

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2011

In the tongue-in-cheek recruiting effort--which it says is aimed at hiring the Most Interesting Engineers In The World --is a takeoff of the Dos Equis' beer advertisement campaign. Scopely is headed by Eytan Elbaz, one of the co-founders of Applied Semantics, the firm which eventually became Google AdSense. READ MORE>>.

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Google Advertising Competition Los Angeles 227

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable. It helps to understand how online advertising really works. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model. Advertisers see this as cost per impression (CPI) or cost per mille (CPM).

Advertising 99

Advertising PPC CPC Sites 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

Lots of people are trying to help, with new twists on the age-old model of free-market capitalism that has driven businesses for the last 500 years. Many young entrepreneurs seem to think that capitalism and making profit are dirty words. Even informal results can be your best advertising. Making a profit does not imply greed.

Startup 93

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 93

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Helfand had previously headed by advertising and partnerships for United Online's Adcurate, Netzero, Juno, Classmates, FTD and MyPoints brands. The firm was actually spawned out of a UCLA MBA business plan competition. According to Palo Alto-based Auditude this morning, Helfand has joined the company as CEO.

Woodland Hills 177

Woodland Hills Redpoint UCLA Advertising 177

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Capitalize on the massive trend and power of mobile. Do the research to find your best competitive advantage, and then highlight and live the differentiation. Use personized smart advertising to target your customers. Use analytics to assess your efforts and your competition.

Social Media 73

Social Media Customer Custom Mobile 73

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. After Tanz had sold his pre-Instagram photo-sharing app called MoJungle, he was intrigued with notion of bringing advertising to photos, and had no idea if it was even possible.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2013

This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. Hit ‘em where they ain’t.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Startup Advertising Social Media 117

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Many companies try to recover with more advertising and rebranding, and discover that these strategies don’t work well in today’s market. I like the five strategies that this author recommends for capitalizing on future rapidly emerging customer needs: Win with current customers before chasing new ones.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Design 54

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

Advertising 157

Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising. Never “sell” or push out your message like conventional advertising. Above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. So, we decided that if we wanted to try to tackle this as an end-to-end solution, we needed to maintain our competitive edge, and we needed to raise capital to hire staff.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Lots of people are trying to help, with new twists on the age-old model of free-market capitalism that has driven businesses for the last 500 years. Many young entrepreneurs seem to think that capitalism and making profit are dirty words. Conscious Capitalism, for example, claims 3.2 Making a profit does not imply greed.

Startup 104

Startup Entrepreneur Examples Satisfaction 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I believe that the resourcefulness to turn constraints into competitive differentiators and new opportunities is a trait that separates the great entrepreneurs from the “wannabes.” Startups funded by large venture-capital investments rarely think about productivity. Do it yourself with new tools rather than hire outside help.

Startup 57

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Outsource 57

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2012

This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. Hit ‘em where they ain’t.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Advertising Social Media Competition 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. We don’t hear about the remaining three million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Be aggressive and alert.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Advertisers. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Brilliant web and iPhone app design.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

Lots of people are trying to help, with new twists on the age-old model of free-market capitalism that has driven businesses for the last 500 years. Many young entrepreneurs seem to think that capitalism and making profit are dirty words. Conscious Capitalism, for example, claims 3.2 Making a profit does not imply greed.

Tips 55

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Examples 55

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

One is the “denominator problem&# which says that if an LP invests X% (the denominator) into “alternative investments&# such as venture capital and if their total amount available to invest (the numerator) goes down by 30% then the amount they allocate to VC will by definition need to go down by 30% to stay the same percentage.

Venture Capital 311

Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2013

Lots of people are trying to help, with new twists on the age-old model of free-market capitalism that has driven businesses for the last 500 years. Many young entrepreneurs seem to think that capitalism and making profit are dirty words. Conscious Capitalism, for example, claims 3.2 Making a profit does not imply greed.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Startup Examples Satisfaction 98

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Go Boulder!

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? Dan Yomtobian: 100 percent of our revenues come from advertisers, and from people clicking on sponsored listings. It's pretty much been all organic.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We caught up with co-founder Clark Landry to chat about his new startup, which he co-founded with Michael Ritter.

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. Hit ‘em where they ain’t.

Tips 89

Tips Entrepreneur Advertising Social Media 89