socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content. Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

The fundamental problem with banner ads is a condition called “banner blindness&# meaning that our eyes are really quickly trained to look at what is most relevant on the page – the content we want to see. The reality is that advertising has got to become more integrated with content in order to drive efficacy.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Santa Monica-based Jacked, a provider of second screen information for sports broadcasts, said Monday that the firm has inked a deal with the NBA. According to Jacked, it will provide an interactive, second screen companion to a number of NBA teams. The deal also will have participating NBA teams.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Content is king, and local startup Yekra has just secured $3 million in funding for their digital rights distribution service for the every man. In the digital age, streaming content is profitable for producers, but now digital rights management (DRM) is not just for big studios but for independent content creators as well.

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Platform Netflix Hulu Content 69

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Don’t start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, “friending” on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationship. Producing weak, unfocused, or unhelpful content.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 93

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing. The money slide is the graphic below. The WWW is the presentation layer.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. Blair Harrison: I think the most important thing at the moment, is the end screen experience is one of the most important thing. What is Frequency?

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Using content delivery networks (CDNs) to share the traffic load across multiple servers . The software can take several forms, including screen lockers, encryption ransomware, and doxware. . Having a DDoS response plan in place detailing whom to notify, how to escalate, and what team members are expected to do after an attack.

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Startup Email Networking Southern California 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Don’t start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, “friending” on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationship. Producing weak, unfocused, or unhelpful content.

Social Media 85

Social Media Media Startup Content 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

When hosting training meetings, be sure to record them so those who did not attend can review the content afterward and so future employees can access it. Most video conferencing platforms, such as Zoom, have the ability to record videos while sharing a screen. Another easy-to-use option is the Soapbox extension on Chrome.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A Rethinking value.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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News Advertising Press Sites 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2014

This post was originally featured on the Pristine Engineering Blog. invoke-static {v1, p0}, Lcom/google/glass/home/voice/menu/HomeMenuItems;->addMirrorCommands(Ljava/util/List;Landroid/content/Context;)V. Why would we want to remove items from the “ok glass” menu? Use the.line XXX as a guide.line 480.local

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Google Design Content Screening 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This concept promotes the idea that any brand's image -- and resulting success -- is achieved more effectively through the osmosis of pervasive blog buzz and tweet-trending than traditional marketing methods. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites. Social mobile web.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. Beautifully written.

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Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

The service allows you to share live experiences through content, and expand beyond your social graph to discover new people through similar interests in an environment that is collaborative, fun and safe”, they posted on the blog. The original post and all subsequent video replies can be viewed in one screen.”. Video Posts.

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Screening Google Networking Blogging 64

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capital Hulu 330

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

While Lift and Uber allow people to request a pickup and ride from screen tested drivers to transport them and their friends safely to and from their destinations, Buddytruck fills a void that the ride-sharing services are sorely lacking, hauling of items. Unlike the two ride-sharing services, Buddytruk isn’t a ride-sharing service.

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FAQ Startup Technical Review Santa Monica 98

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. The one that works best for me is visualization coupled with self talk. Were they vertically integrated ?

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more. ” Court also likes the Red Sox.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2014

My blog had been looking tired for a year or two. I’m more of a verbal content guy. I considered changing to a blog publishing platform that would allow me to change the visual design more easily myself. He wrote a nice blog post describing the project to redesign my website. On my blog and in presentation.

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Blogging Design Venture Capital Screening 294

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

I do regular (almost daily) “Snapstorms” of content around one topic for entrepreneurs and VCs. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. The starting screen every time is the camera. Open Snapchat.

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