Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As the Internet continues to become populated with e-commerce sites, it’s becoming more and more difficult to generate web traffic, leads, and ultimate the sales for your website. Thankfully, we’ve compiled detailed guide in order to help you generate more awareness for your website in the global market. Work On Your SEO.

Commerce 58

Commerce Search Engine Optimization Sites Marketing 58

socalTECH

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.

Startup 256

Startup Commerce Santa Monica Mentor 256

socalTECH

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.

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

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.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. How does this work?

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. Tell me about Connected Travel?

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

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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Santa Barbara Commerce Platform Marketing 167

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP.com?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. What''s your background and how did you end up at YP?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

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. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

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.

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. Both of us are purely digital. So, where's the company now?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

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? When a platform evolves, at some point the company that built the platform starts to slow down. Value Prop Twitter Style : Ad.ly For exact quotes, watch the videos.

Social Media 252

Social Media Platform Media Networking 252

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. Amit Jain: Bridg is a customer data platform and marketing technology for offline retailers. Brig is a customer data platform for offline retailers.

Startup 113

Startup Customer Custom Sales 113

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.

USC 98

USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

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.” That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

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.

Mobile 100

Mobile Technical Review Google Tool 100

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.

Help 40

Help Technical Review Customer Custom 40

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. Targeted mobile advertising. After choosing one of their affordable monthly service fee plans, users simply interact with their advertisers. InSpirAVE is helping people “save for what matters,” and reduce impulsive spending.

Startup 80

Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Having done lots of those, I realized that there was a really great opportunity, from the standpoint of harnessing the higher quality in streaming platforms. We had used partners like Ustream and Livestream for our streaming platforms, and they're fantastic, both from the insights and capabilities for user generated streaming.

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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

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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San Diego Hollywood Mobile eHarmony 264

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

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. Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Go Boulder!

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore. Coincident.TV

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

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.

Pricing 66

Pricing Customer Custom Advertising 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

This will also drive mobile usage and the growth of industries such as e-commerce and fintech, with a focus on streamlining and online task management integration tools supporting business use. As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen.

Commerce 40

Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s established itself as a leading source of organic sales referrals and we find creative ways for brands to help keep it that way while seeing incredible results as far as significantly increased site visits, sales and brand awareness.

Sales 101

Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Article 2 posed the question of “Where is advertising going in this new digital age?” My personal belief?

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. Over time we’ll continue to build out the applications – helping make the entire web more social.&#.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Forget visits to random restaurants, myfab5 uses the power of the crowd to help you search for the best restaurant in town. The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review. What is myfab5? Don’t like a restaurant? What inspired you?

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Essentially, we're still oriented around social shopping, where our fundamental value proposition is helping consumers figure out what to buy. That's why we exist, and why we are a company, to help consumers figure out that fundamental question. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them.

Content 165

Content Demand Sites Media 165

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. Ohmconnect - “AirBNB for energy” solves the ever-growing energy crisis by recruiting the help of everyday utility users. Shippo is changing the game for e-commerce shipping.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111