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. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. Enter Burstly.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Jerry Jao: Retention Science is a Big Data and e-commerce platform, where we help engage customers.

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Commerce Platform Southern California Customer 196

Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2018

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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Mobile Cloud Computing Commerce Entertainment 75

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

IT Departments and Web Teams are not synonymous. Web Teams are necessary to running websites and applications. Network engineers and programmers are essential in designing platforms and up-keeping them. Then, there are the creative peoples that help make the Web Team’s work stand out among others. Responsibilities.

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Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

States have been fighting to collect sales taxes from online retailers since the dawn of the e-commerce age. But today, online companies that sell services rather than merchandise also need to be concerned about state sales taxes. There are numerous steps that smart companies can take to avoid unpleasant surprises.

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Sales Company Companies Software Review 62

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. In fact, ecommerce website builders and platforms have become seriously big business over the last few years. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business.

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Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily do with your smartphone or tablet. What is SURE?

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Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

The company, which operates a network of online markets for outsourcing biomedical research services and supplies, has raised $24 million in a new round of venture funding. Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations. Lustig argued.

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Outsource Marketing Research Web 79

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It It also is a burgeoning sector.

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Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SteelHouse’s Behavioral Commerce platform increases online conversions via targeted incentives based on shopper personality and behavior. I didn’t have that appreciation when I was with companies in Silicon Valley. You can watch the video below or on YouTube here: [link].

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eHarmony Media Oracle Commerce 204

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

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San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

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San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 22, 2013

At Rubicon Project, we pioneered automation and our technology platform supports all four. RTB is just a protocol – like http is a protocol for the Web; it’s not a market – just like e-commerce sites are not an http company. This gives buyers and sellers full capability to access all inventory and automation efforts.

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Advertising Press Commerce Examples 86

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Edward Park: Our company, Rnddr Labs, is trying to create frictionless merch tools and products. One of the things we really wanted to do was address that, and make our platform more flexible and versatile to help artists and others monetize this without having to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars up front.

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

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

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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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.

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Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

In an age where topics like Russian hacking, CIA hacking tools and the stability of the power grid and industrial networks has suddenly become important, there are only a few companies tackling industrial network security directly. All of the machines that those kinds of companies run on, over the last twenty years, have become automated.

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Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. What's the story behind Ranker?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

We spoke with Sara Bordo , the firm's founder and CEO, about the company. 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. Additionally, they are syndicated widely across the web. What is NowLive all about?

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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In the move to online commerce, one of the latest areas of interest by online retailers has been the use of online video, to showcase products and provide training and instruction. We caught up with Kim Folsom , the firm's founder and CEO, to learn more about the company. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model.

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Guide Training Platform Product 113

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

Yan tells us how the company's revenues, growth, and profits--even in the early days--drove $21M in funding from Sequoia for the company. Lidia Yan: We call ourselves the central marketplace for shippers, connecting them with trucking companies who own two to six trucks. How did the company start?

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Startup Pricing Marketing Entrepreneur 173

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The afternoon, with Tech Wildcatters ‘ Gabriella Draney and a handful of still-stealth eCommerce ventures, solidified that the industry of commerce is in Texas. 0, eCommerce platforms: Volusion and BigCommerce (which raised $40M last year with Steve Case). Offline engagement platform EyeQ. Texas and eTail.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. That system was launched as its own, separate company in late 2011.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Build your own marketplace platform.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

InfoChachkie

JUNE 22, 2015

Why are the world’s biggest Internet companies investing in a technology created in the late 1800’s? People continue to surf the web to gather information when making a considered purchase. gotten pretty good at implementing call intelligence platforms which economically connect brands with their omni-channel marketing strategies.

Mobile 100

Mobile Technical Review Google Tool 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. In an e-mail to Xconomy, Zingle’s Blakely said he plans to use the venture funding to “invest further in product to make sure we are providing the most current, forward-thinking customer messaging platform for all our customers.”.

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Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform. Another local company, CoSchedule , just attracted $2.2 What makes Fargo an ideal place to start a company? For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 million moved into a brand new 14,000 square foot facility in downtown Fargo.

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Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

What you’ll also find is that of the 25 companies, our founders represent an inclusive group with 40 percent female, 52 percent minority and 12 percent veteran founders from 14 states and 5 countries. These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM).

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217