TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Movio’s user base is currently in the lower hundreds of thousands, with paying customers nearing 1,000. Co-founder and CEO Josh Xu met his co-founder and CFO Liang Wang, a veteran of ByteDance and the music social network Smule, when the two were studying at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. In fact, businesses need to adapt even more completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. Authority – the guiding light. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2012

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. For example, while the customer paradigm is shifting rapidly to smartphones, a survey last year indicated that just 12 percent of small businesses had that reach.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2013

A new, Los Angeles startup, SendUs , launched its services to help brands manage user-generated video content this morning, saying that its platform helps companies leverage that user-generated content and turn it into videos for companies. sendus crowdsourced video content publishing software' Komen for The Cure. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect today unveiled the latest version of its social network for marketers with an open API for developers. GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. Venture Funding.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

Names and details of those customers were not announced, but a number are via a relationship Fliptu has with talent agency ICM Partners. Fliptu's service helps brands manage their social networking activity, providing a central place for fans to access content about their favorite artists, celebrities, and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. All-you-can-eat content model. Here the key is to convince customers that you have something really rare, and maybe even entice them into a long-term but affordable relationship.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. It's built on a gaming platform, and is a way for users to create their own content and portions of that world. What's the idea behind Worlize? How did the firm come about? What's your background?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. In fact, businesses need to adapt just as completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. To compete, startups must find ways to provide customers an easier, faster, more pervasive connection to digital networks, via mobile as well as the Internet.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2012

Rarely do we come upon a website or web applcaitions that truly sifts through all the junk and curates the most influential and authoritative source to give to useful and value content…not spam. They’ll discover content for me…AND make sure it’s not spam. Content was a flowing based of my Twitter stream.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results. Other user-created content sites. Profile sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. All-you-can-eat content model. Here the key is to convince customers that you have something really rare, and maybe even entice them into a long-term but affordable relationship.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And investing in content companies won’t return money! Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. For once content is becoming like selling clothes on Gilt Groupe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

If you are in the almost 30 percent of all small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content. So, we start with that.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] There are a number of ways to do this effectively, including the use of social networks to create buzz, seeding product acceptance through early adopters or celebrities, or by creating a small niche market that shows unusual acceptance and more. That story can be in print or in multimedia form.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the developer of location analytics software for companies, said today that it has integrated with the popular photo sharing and social networking app Instagram.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

The firm said the new LiveOffice Social Archive software is can capture and retain content from any public web site. LifeOffice said the solution is geared toward addressing recent FINRA regulations on communications by securities firms and brokers on those social networking sites.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the stars of today more relatable and more easily reachable than those of yesteryear. They dominate the media, have accrued millions of fans on social networks and have branched into retail, fashion, production and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2017

The average business person fights a customer culture shift, rather than looking for it. Thus I recommend that the rest of us need to step outside our comfort zone, and start practicing some specific strategies to recognize cultural shifts, and maybe even start a few trends of our own: Embrace online social interaction with customers.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

What is the most effective way for Marketers to reach their Customers effectively? The tidal wave of online user generated content is creating billions of dollars of value for the social networks. Hear a business case from Frank Huybrechts, CEO, Inferpedia.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

We could still deliver applicants and deliver passive job seekers to a company, but we could also delivery applicants that already understood what the cultur of the company was, and be able to measure the kind of footprint people were making on a social network. Talk more about that outplacement content?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system?

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2009

According to EQAL, its new platform is focused on helping those producers and talent to create their own web sites, with features such as blogs, discussions, forums, and user profiles, as well as links to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

MARCH 4, 2013

This will help create your social profile and help marketers find you; the marketers you really want. Follow potential customers, companies you enjoy doing business with and those that provide great content, like Mashable , VirginAmerica or Subway. Be smart with your social networking. Do the same on Twitter.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2015

What is is that makes you want to share one piece of content with your friends, but not another? Exactly what is the magic behind if a piece of content goes viral or not? David Dundas: Decisive analyzes images and videos on social networks, to help brands understand what makes their fans want to share and not share.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reports today that it has rolled out a new profile and theme gallery, to help with "cleaning things up a bit" on the site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Push negative content out of view. Remove unwanted content, where possible. Quickly address every negative.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. John Greathouse : Albert, thanks for taking the time to chat.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Push negative content out of view. Remove unwanted content, where possible. Quickly address every negative.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Our software sorts video content relative to its importance to you, based on your social graph and social impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

In the spirit of highlighting new startup opportunities, I think we need some new companies who can track down and remove unwanted content on the web. About one-third of the searches yielded content used to deny a job, the survey said. Everyone has to be respectful of First Amendment issues, so other offensive content is untouchable.

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