TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It means wasted advertising spend and lost goodwill. Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Irvine-based Advantage Solutions , which provides technology-enabled sales and marketing services to manufacturers and retailers, has acquired Quantum Networks , a New York City-based e-commerce retailer and agency. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? Much of the focus is on absorbing that energy, the enthusiasm of the startup community here has created over the last few years. It's unclear.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of a cross-screen advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $13M in a new funding round. BlueCava helps companies manage targeting of consumers on smartphones, tablets, the Internet, and more. bluecava advertising platform cross venture capital targeting' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The new products are part of a push by the company to expand the services it offers to small and medium sized businesses, beyond its roots in helping those firms advertise their businesses online. According to ReachLocal, it has launched three new products, ReachSite , ReachConvert , and ReachCommerce.

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MARCH 23, 2017

TPage is led by CEO Allon Caidar, and says it is developing "omni-channel video commerce technology", to help digital media publishers monetize their video content. Silverman is the former president of Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We're taking a different approach. What does that look like?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. Louis and Atlanta.

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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. A lot of those brands, on the e-commerce side, are becoming more data driven. We are helping to answer those challenging and important questions a business wants to answer.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The firm's results were helped by increases in consumer Internet advertising revenue and licensing revenues, but hurt by a continuing weakness in its automotive e-commerce efforts. Internet Brands said it had net income of $4.3M in the fourth quarter on revenues of $27.7M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider to the affiliate marketing industry, has inked a partnership with Pepperjam Network , an online performance marketing firm owned by GSI Commerce. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. Louis and Atlanta.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We built a whole, loyalty rewards and points system to incentivize changes, and also helps with behavior management and sustained change. Less than 10 percent of people are taking public transportation, and only about 20 percent of commerce is online. If you think about it, advertising is trying to get you to do two things.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2011

The new e-commerce site is aimed at helping women decide what to buy by tapping ThisNext's social shopping features and guides. Santa Monica-based ThisNext , the social shopping and content site run by Matt Edelman, has scored a partnership with Lucky Magazine. Financial deatils of the partnership were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 5, 2012

Garrett was most recently a venture capitalist at Crosscut Ventures, who helped identify and fund ShoeDazzle--co-founded the company with Beal, a fashion industry insider who was introduced to Garrett by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig. Brian Garrett: The way I describe it, is it's a fashion, media, and commerce company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slowdowns.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

As one of the main forms of communication within commerce, marketing has both evolved radically with the advent of computers, but some principles remain the same. This emphasis on engagement is helping many businesses stand out from the onslaught of advertisements that can plague consumers daily.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2016

Then Google announced its intent to ban payday and title lenders from advertising in search results. The lack of technology and innovation in the pawn industry isn’t a deliberate choice, but comes from the large number of small, independent shops that lack the financial and technical resources to build a custom e-commerce platform.

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JULY 25, 2012

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. Since my background is in environmental sciences, as well, I couldn't help noticing all of the things that hadn't been addressed properly. has been a reliance on advertising revenue. Nothing has really changed over that time.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. iScout makes meaning out of football data to help teams make good playmaking and recruiting choices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slowdowns.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Top CEO’s, entrepreneurs, technology gurus, venture capitalists and executives will be looking at the tech ecosystem from different perspectives, including e-commerce, enterprise software, digital media and consumer technologies.” Helping others build their brand helps you build yours. This is the wave of the future.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 22, 2015

This approach of guiding consumers online and then offline ( on/offline ) through the purchasing process represents the future of commerce, whether it is online to a call or online to an in-store visit. Companies like Invoca and IfByPhone are uniquely positioned to help online advertisers monetize old-fashioned phone calls.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? Dave Fink: I was one of the original partners at Sciences, and Jonathan was CTO of the e-commerce staff. We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Mobile traffic consumption is rising dramatically and everybody expects it to become the major commerce platform of the future. I’ll explain in detail below.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Those retailers look over at the online world, and wish they had the same kinds of tools that e-commerce retailers had to help them improve their business. If you are in the e-commerce business, you can see people logging into your website, and you can use cookies to track them and know everything about them. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

They can choose to go to a dinner that is advertised, and if they've previously expressed interest in a person, we let them know if that person is going. We wanted to use the Internet to make things easy and help create initial connections. I had helped launched music products at Nokia, and they put us together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

These days they like to see a connection to a higher purpose, such as helping a societal or environmental problem. Use personized smart advertising to target your customers. For e-commerce solutions, people remember your brand when they see instant delivery. Engage customers with a contest, event, or give-away.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. Internships.com / Robin Richards - Richards most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, was founding president and COO at MP3.com,

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I’m certainly not a fan of customer rip-offs, but even non-profits have to be cash-flow positive, or have deep pockets, to help anyone for long. As an experienced business advisor, here is my current summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product is free, revenue is from advertisers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

She points out changes and new approaches, based on her thirty-year career in technology advertising. Take a look at the Vanguard investment management site, and you immediately see language like “See why Vanguard is right for you” and “See how a Vanguard advisor can help” to quickly prioritize customer needs. Be specific.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

helps brands start conversations with target audiences on Twitter. So who are the people who can help you reach the consumers you want to reach? These lines are blurring between editorial and commerce and the companies that are successful in three years are the ones that recognized that early and built a great consumer experience.”.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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