socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com). What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company?

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Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Start – It’s The Only Way You Will Know. Mark reinforced this message by telling the students, “I didn’t start young enough. I started at 31. The reality is, most startups do not work.

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Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. The decision was made over a year ago now, to break those two pieces into two separate companies.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

We thought we'd talk with Chris about what Jetpack is up to. We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads.

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Buzznet Outsource Development Design HTML 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Things got so bad on one project that we ended up doing split shifts with teams of people programming from 8pm-6am and the next team arriving at 8am. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. the rest of the time. Sound familiar?

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2014

The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. Talk about Nix Hydra, and what the game company is working on? How did the company start? There are not many women-led gaming startups, was it difficult to start and get this funded?

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Software Review Startup Mobile HTML 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder. One great company, AppFolio , filmed all of this user interaction and made the DVD available to me.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Pitching stories and getting your name out to various companies and editors requires a lot of work. TechZulu catches up with the founder of Assignmint, Jeff Koyen, as he talks about Assignmint, freelance, and LA startups. There are no surprises on how and when you are going to get paid and everything leading up to that point.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in. Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Startups Without a Website Won’t Start ). Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the results. Yet my random poll of a dozen company sites found 25% were missing even the most basic tag info.

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SEO HTML Search Engine Optimization Web 48

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2013

ProProfs started life as a simple online quiz maker that was easy to use. ProProfs uses every advantage of HTML 5 to let users drag and drop almost every file and lets ProProfs do all the work. Even users who don’t have PowerPoint or a certain video player can view or edit any of those files through ProProfs by the magic of HTML 5.

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Tool Class HTML Course 77

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. Mark Sylvester: Likeabilitee is a project my partner, KymberleeWeil and I, came up with about a year ago.

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Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

Yesterday, I met with someone at the early stage of a startup. Here were some of his particular issues: Most of the firms that come up are actually website design firms not website development firms. The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML. In fact, after a bit he gave up.

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Web Development Los Angeles Web Develop 167

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. 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. And then came AOL.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. I founded a company called thePlatform, which is sort of industrial strength video publishing.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Starting again with EC2. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. JSON serialization test.

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Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. Enterprise.

SoCal 77

SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Starting again with EC2. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. JSON serialization test.

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Businesses deal with countless data points, leading to decisions affecting their companies in various ways. Collecting and analyzing the right data can easily find faults and successes lying within the company’s walls. We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. So cheer up everybody, this too will pass. Foreign Service.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Jason Nazar

MAY 3, 2016

I started Docstoc in my 20’s, made the cover of one of those cliché “20 Under 20” lists, and today I employ an amazing group of 20-somethings. Call me a curmudgeon, but at 34, how I came up seems so different from what this millennial generation expects. Time is the only treasure we start off with in abundance, and can never get back.

Social Media 44

Social Media Tips Startup Mentor 44

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Do this for a couple weeks!

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Startup IP Email Report 29