Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. What kind of insurance are you offering now through those apps and the web?

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JUNE 22, 2015

People continue to surf the web to gather information when making a considered purchase. 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. Share and Enjoy.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We wanted to use the Internet to make things easy and help create initial connections. Andrew Connell: I was previously at Nokia, and ran Nokia's e-commerce business globally in fourteen markets. At Nokia, I was building relationships with consumer front ends, and prior to that, I worked with big mobile carriers.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success.

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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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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. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. They help make rational decisions.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Increasing the awareness and support of entrepreneurial development helps connect startups, builds confidence among entrepreneurs, and portrays our community as a great place to build a business. For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I founded NowLive a year ago, dedicated to producing and streaming live, professional events for the web and mobile, and anchored interactive. I was involved in 2 businesses in strategic marketing, including brokering eBay into the Hollywood studios, helping eBay to monetize their platform for entertainment.

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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. That really helps improve conversion. He reports to another department.

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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. That really helps improve conversion. He reports to another department.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Personalize a simple web site. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA). How will Beast Mobile cut down the cost of your ever-increasing cell phone bill? Targeted mobile advertising. These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. InSpirAVE is helping people “save for what matters,” and reduce impulsive spending.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

adult now spends a reported 5 hours and 38 minutes on the web – advances have been made in the way individuals and small businesses operate in the digital world, which will grow even more this year. In 2016, the price of mobile data will remain relatively stable. Mobile Growth Will Continue To Shape Our Lives.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

As part of today’s announcement , Petnet said its mobile-app enabled SmartBowl (priced at $49) is available online as of this week at Petco.com and at select Petco stores nationwide. The free Petnet mobile app enables pet owners to manage SmartFeeder feeding times, portion sizes, and food supply from their smartphone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based Kidworth (www.kidworth.com) is looking to both help kids learn about entrepreneurship, and more importantly, make it easy for them to set up an online store, sell their services or products, and even handle things like collecting payments via credit card. How does Kidworth help them with that?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. Web analytics, pretty clear. Jen Robinson has been building web and mobile tech for more than 10 years. Steve currently manages Fandango’s web and mobile commerce platforms. For example?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. The company's main target is e-commerce sites with rich media. PathMotion - provides relevant career and job search by helping consumers identify their career goals and learn from the experience of others.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

Ackerman (pictured) is founder and managing director of San Francisco-based VC firm AllegisCyber , and co-founder of Fulton, MD-based DataTribe , which helps launch startups grounded in the expertise of former federal cybersecurity experts at the National Security Agency and other government units. His portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The link-in-bio business is heating up as more mobile website builders compete for a coveted slice of real estate on a creator’s TikTok, Instagram or Twitter. We decided to go with this model because we really want to have a relationship where we help the creators really make money. With its $5.5

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

We have negotiated pricing for preventative, restorative, emergency, and even cosmetic dentistry, and it''s easy to use through either our web or mobile service. You often hear complaints that Los Angeles companies are too much about e-commerce and entertainment. You''ll see the practices and those dentists in our network.

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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. With the rapid trajectory of tablet devices purchased in the past few years, media and mobile companies are scrambling to create new apps for them.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal. From websites to apps, philosophie creates engaging and efficient digital experiences for many different industries.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Moderated by Sean Arian , VP of Innovation, Sustainability and Emerging Technology @ the LA Chamber of Commerce, this conversation was an inside opportunity to dispel the myths surrounding the Cleantech industry. Tom Soto – Managing Director/Investment Committee Member, TCW/Craton.

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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 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

If you have more money than the incumbents, try it, but don’t look for investor help. Mobile apps for everything and anything. million mobile apps available to download for iOS devices, and even more for Android devices. Web site generators have made it cheap and easy to launch a site, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus. Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month). Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Finally, DataSift has an enormous about of historical data already stored we we can help you go back and retrieve some older data for analytical purposes. As a former hedge fund guy, Roger immediately saw the value in helping companies better sift through the masses of data; often to gain better insights into financial information.

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