socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. I joined about a year ago--a bunch of us did--and looked at where Sidebar was as it was gearing up for a full consumer launch of its personalized content portal. What is Sidebar all about?

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Content Screening Mobile Custom 189

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

There's a lot behind that, but it's really a matter of going out and getting the best deal content, and using the web and community to sift through all of that to put the best deal out there in front of you. We definitely benefited from consumers hungry for a deal and merchants hungry for sales. Loren Bendele: A few things.

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Sites Content Sales Demand 217

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We sincerely hope that people will step up enough to support our content, so we never have to rely on commercial ads. The difference between Pandroa and us, versus who we are, and on demand services like Spotify, Beats, or Rhapsody, is they have direct licenses. How does your music catalog compare to other services? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Services Advertising Content 237

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales. Brett Rossman: We''re really trying to round out our divisions, and have a number of open positions on the technical side, sales, marketing, operations, on our content team, and on our media buying team.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community.

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. The now-public. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content. Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. As long as the content fits in the bucket, we approve it to go into the marketplace.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market. It''s unique in that we can integrate that into CRM systems, email systems, point-of-sale.

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Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2012

If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away. Engage customers with relevant and valuable content. Funny videos and worthless give-aways won’t make your website go “viral” these days.

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Custom Customer Networking Entrepreneur 93

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We built the website The Numbers, which tracks daily and weekly box office grosses and DVD sales, and we also provider consulting services--primarily to independent filmmakers, or anybody in the industry who needs to get financial data in order to support their business plan or to make investment decisions. READ MORE>>.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Meanwhile, Amazon famously claimed 1% fewer sales for each additional 100ms of latency. “It was running fine.”

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Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away. Engage customers with relevant and valuable content. Funny videos and worthless give-aways won’t make your website go “viral” these days.

Custom 91

Custom Customer Startup Networking 91

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

There's a gigantic need for the demand side of the marketplace. There's a giant need in the supply side to be able to go out to a web site, put your corporate profile down, and have a very efficient system for matching both the demand and supply side, matching the intern and the job at a local and geographic level.

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Startup Content Sites CTO Coach 223

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Snipfeed started as a content discovery platform with 44,000 weekly active users — but when Snipfeed added a creator monetization tool to its platform, it became its most popular feature. “ Content creator doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be the next Addison Rae or a TikTok star,” explained Ramdani.

Platform 286

Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. Every major VC has a stable of portfolio companies that were “in a holding pattern” – too small for an IPO yet the VCs didn’t want to sell them cheaply in a fire sale.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. So, the first thing we're recruiting for is a strong sales team, that has a trusted relationship with the studios in LA. So it's going to be a sales team, a business development team, and helping our relationships with YouTube and Facebook.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Have you noticed how many web apps and content have turned into subscription services during the last several years? Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Paying for content. The massive shift in revenue models in recent years. A buyer’s bonus.

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Software Review Content Netflix 156

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

A plan alone is not all that valuable if you won't follow them, so what we give are also the tools--via iPhone, the web, SMS, email, Android, Blackberry--to log you actually did do. Exercise TV is the largest, on-demand, fitness TV network, and is in nearly 40 million homes now, providing on-demand, fitness content from expert trainers.

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Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2017

Most struggle with the idea and practice of marketing and sales, and see these as a necessary evil, if even required. A great resource is the classic book by Drew Williams and Jonathan Verney, “ Feed the Startup Beast: A 7-Step Guide to Big, Hairy, Outrageous Sales Growth.” Use social media in concert with a web site and offline media.

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Startup Sales Custom Customer 64

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc. So much for resting!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

The largest video social network, Bebo , purchased for $850 million, was just sold by AOL in a “fire sale,” after it lost half its membership of 10 million users last year. Hulu is a popular website offering streaming video of TV shows on demand in the United States, and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and other studios.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343