Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency.

Tool 131

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 131

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. 5) Google does a great job with indexed search. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search?

Google 264

Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

Startup 126

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Big news in the social gaming sphere as major interactive gaming player Kabam announces the launch of The Godfather: Five Families out of beta and into commercial exclusively with Google+ Games. This is the first major exclusive game launch Kabam or any other major gaming company on Google+ and not on Facebook.

Google 64

Google Paramount Web 2.0 News 64

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. It’s a lot more fun to do it right the first time, making it easier for you, and tougher on your competition.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. 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.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

In order to do that, what we did is instead of focusing on the front end apps, we worked on developing our own, back end unified communications platform, which gives us a the ability to offer telephony and text messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. Speaking of Skype and Googl, are they big competitors? READ MORE>>.

Social Network 259

Social Network Platform Networking Google 259

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. Focusing on the U.S. trillion, and the spa sector passing $150 billion, both by 2025.

Help 195

Help Startup UCLA Tool 195

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

For us, relatively large and very large multi location brands use our platform to ensure they get discovered online. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. Interestingly, we've seen an explosion in usage of our platform. Google triangulates a lot of information.

Google 113

Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? Our platform doesn't require any time. Dave Newmark: I think it goes to the fact that any marketplace needs to have a win.

Google 124

Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The comparison, is something like Google Stadia requires exchanging 20 megabits of information per second to keep that up. I realized, as we were building this, this multi-user collaborative platform was so powerful and neat, we should make ti available now, before the full operating system was done. to 7 kilobytes per second.

Platform 168

Platform Startup Examples Web 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Sponsor some friendly competitive events with prizes. Market an image of exclusivity or premium only.

Marketing 170

Marketing Startup Examples Customer 170

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

For example, Google has consistently been ranked as one of the best company cultures, and claim big numbers, because of their focus on culture. Use shared-document platforms, in-house message systems, and online whiteboards, to maximize sharing and minimize miscommunication. Change – make “journey of change” apply to all.

Coach 85

Coach Satisfaction Activity Sites 85

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? (HP Style) are dead. of the fund. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

Venture Capital 471

Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Our investment in PlayVS and the subsequent launch of their Season Zero high school e-sports platform was very exciting. His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). He is also a long-time entrepreneur.

Dollar Shave Club 113

Dollar Shave Club Tsavo Userplane Malibu 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

We are across many platforms, and have a whole array of enterprise customers. It's a free app, and works in all of the stores, and is platform agnostic. Gina Callari: That's our competitive advantage. Since the inception of the company, we've been doing everything in 360 degrees with our imagery.

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Sales Research Content Edmunds 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!” Nice sweep!

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. 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.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats. But what is unique about Bird is that with each generation of scooter platform we launch our unit economics get better and better.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

Much of the effort in the past year has been focused on improving the toolset, allowing contributors to create their own test and development environment with less effort and to optionally focus on just the frameworks or platforms of interest to them. Between Round 9 and Round 10, we saw an average of 7 commits per day. versus 1.05M).

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Framework EC2 TechEmpower Java 200

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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. At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. Speaking of Apple's iPhone and Google, it seems like you're one of the few mobile game firms for phones which has made the transition more or less smoothly into this new world of iOS and Android. Long term, it's probably not.

Mobile 168

Mobile Java Google Startup 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I invested in what I believe is the largest free & group texting platform in the country – TextPlus. Yes, the competition going forward will be strong. Google has Google Voice. But that doesn’t make group messaging a company. The overwhelming majority of text messages sent are point-to-point, not group.

Company 295

Company Companies Gogii Google 295

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. Not Google. Not Microsoft.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? Ross Weber: We''re not here to replace ad platforms like Google Adsense. our primary competition is Intent Media, which has raised $51M in venture money.

Advertising 100

Advertising Startup Software Review Platform 100

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

The consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertiser experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

After taking a brief hiatus amidst nervous tensions, competition between cloud computing vendors has reached a fever pitch in the past month. The latest volley in the cloud price wars can best be traced to a promotion launched by Google this past summer. Whereas Google offered their Nearline Storage at $0.01

Pricing 40

Pricing Cloud Computing Google Services 40

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We suggest using our built-in communication platform which allows us to settle review disputes. Continue with Google ads and look for sponsorships. No direct competition. I am defining competition as a platform to offer free Advice to Entrepreneurs. If granted, they leave a review for the Advisor.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Startup Paramount Social Media 89