socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. I was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along. Editor's note: you can see Image Metrics "Emily" demo on their web site ).

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2016

If you have not done so, let Google tell you whether your web site is responsive. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile–friendly/ and enter your web address for a quick, free, analysis. How many times do you have to open an email just to read the right side of the text or see the content, but delete the email instead.

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Email Marketing Web Mobile 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence.

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Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics.

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Marketing Metrics Social Media Content 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. The current term for all these activities and results online is “ content marketing.”

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Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The content comes from other places. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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Southern California TechEmpower Technology Council Metrics 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. Sometimes, it's just content presented online. Michele Ruiz: In the last year and a half, we have been putting together our product and content.

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Customized content. Watch video metrics, track performance. Stage and settle debate.

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Metrics Platform Content Web 79

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. magnify360 provides software which automatically adapts web pages to individual visitors, to tailor and personalize the web content those users see.

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Advertising Tool Yahoo Google 100

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

What are your key Startup Metrics ? What special data, content, APIs, etc. What's the User Interface Beyond the Web Site ? How will you be taking this to market? What channels will you use (e.g., SEO for Startups )? How do you make your money? What already exists in your space? Who are your big competitors?

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Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2011

Most web publishers measure where their traffic is coming from using an analytics package such as Google Analytics, Omniture or Core Metrics. In some ways it is because that’s where your user engaged the content. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch (this version is slightly different). Today they’re wrong.

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Social Media Google Media Marketing 292

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Ambal Balakrishnan who I've been talking to about interviews and content marketing as it relates to B2B marketing as well as discussing aggregation in B2B Marketing suggested that I should answer the following about this business networking group: What topics will your "conversations" be about? This would be easy enough to do.

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Los Angeles Networking Angel Blogging 150

Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Michael Arrington – undeniably the hardest worker, obsessive about his product and content. Mark Zuckerberg & Reid Hoffman – hands down built the two best consumer internet applications on the web. Raj Kapoor – a hawk about understanding the metrics that drive the growth of online communities.

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Los Angeles Angel Web 2.0 Web 107

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

We've applied mathematical logic to give each piece of content a score, which tells you how vibrant that piece of content is, based on likes, comments, and shares. From there, because you can drill down on a week, month, and year basis, you can look and say--at any time, what top 5 pieces of content are interesting?

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. It’s awesome.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

A survey by the Webs Small Business Digital Trends revealed that 63% of small business owners are using digital strategies in their overall marketing efforts. Pull your audience with content. With online marketing, marketers produce great content to pull the audience towards their brand. Focus on customers. Share them.

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Guide Social Media Content Advertising 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. Logos, themes, branding, content, videos, maps and more are automatically transposed to the mobile version with no programming knowledge required. We write and create our own content for the game.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2010

6:00 – 6:30 PM: Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource.org – Using the Web to Change the World. 9:10- 9:40: Richard Rosenblatt CEO of Demand Media with Om Malik – The Evolution and ROI of Content. 9:10- 9:40: Richard Rosenblatt CEO of Demand Media with Om Malik – The Evolution and ROI of Content. 1:00 – 2:15: LUNCH SERVED.

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Twiistup Startup UCLA Metrics 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. They've got some nice metrics behind them. Tags: content media investment fundraising fund startup capital venture ventures crosscut garrett brian interview.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

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. An example from Fullscreen: Optimizing user analytics tracking on a Fullscreen product, only to find out Facebook (which his company uses to broadcast user content) had completely changed their layout.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. We worked with an enterprise web analytics application that was very, very expensive and very, very complicated. Tell us how you got the name?

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. My guess is that will be the case with a lot of different kinds of content and applications. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

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Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

He is the Content Strategist and CEO of FatDUX, headquartered in Copahagen, Denmark, a global company specializing in user experience with offices worldwide in Los Angeles, Budapest, Zagreb and Prague. On the other hand, when looking up the ‘user experience’ definition, it has a different set of authors and is very web focused.

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Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools. Noah has what I believe he called “Thank You metrics”. If you are worried about spam, or people not opening your emails, the actual concern is that your company isn’t providing solutions, aka content, your email subscribers are looking for.

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Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We had some investors very interested but wanted us to validate some metrics, so we spent time building things to prove those metrics. We're very focused on just on iOS and Android, and not on the web side or administration. We'll also be working on partnerships at the back end of our service, in the content area.

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Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? Fascinating story.

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? How can we address this risk? Accounting?

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views.

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Startup Platform Sites Java 195

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? Every entrepreneur needs a strategy, and some metrics to measure what’s working and how much it costs. Create and leverage engaging and relevant content. Content that doesn’t connect doesn’t fit.

Marketing 58

Marketing Startup Social Media Newsletter 58

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Take a look at Startup Metrics.

Google 292

Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217