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. Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

We don’t hear about the remaining several million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. How does this work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 Power to harness the social data revolution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. You could just outspend. There is a much better technique.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here are some key recommendations for building your branding plan: Find out who your customers are through social media. Now you can get direct contact and real insights by testing innovative messages through social media even before you rollout the product, and can tune both your message and the product.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. What's your background?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 7, 2013

Social media aggregator RebelMouse recently raised $10.25 million from Oak and SoftBank Capital , betaworks, First Round Capital , Lerer Ventures , New Enterprise Associates with participation from individual investors to help it power its client’s sites. Based in New York, RebelMouse is set to use the $10.25

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

We don’t hear about the remaining three million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

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Research Marketing Statistics Report 87

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. The old media companies were resistant to change. Advertising is approaching $50 billion dollars online, whereas licensing is maybe $1 billion on a good day,” said Tanz. “It

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. It’s only been in the last ten years that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group or opinion survey.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Statistics Research 97

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

They often identify expeditious ways to make money in the early days of their adVentures, which allow them to reduce the amount of capital they must raise from outside investors. As with many emerging markets, the Facebook advertising ecosystem is relatively inefficient. Many entrepreneurs encounter a similar dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from Angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

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Marketing Startup Statistics Research 59

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Master social media marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising. Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice startup technology vc.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD.,

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Recycled Bride earns revenue from sales commissions, premium memberships, and advertising. Funding was a major challenge for Tracy, since she had no experience in the space and needed to prove her model before finding investment capital. Business Model? What inspired you?

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Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD., Producer of Mixergy & AsAble.com.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Venture capital. Streaming media. Social media. Google Plus. Social networking. Social games. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. 20 hrs ago.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search. And what happened in L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. Let me be very direct. Efficiency?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cosmetics, social media, women in tech. . jim spencer, media convergence group.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Advertise and get noticed with us! TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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Pricing Report Invest Venture Capital 89

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. eBay and others.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The company recently closed an impressive $19 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to build out the engineering teams. Simon also shares his thoughts on building a strong fan base through social media and public relations. This means that 85% of the world’s population still doesn’t have a smartphone.

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension. Kind of obvious, huh?

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