Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps.

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JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google).

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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. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. The now-public. Despite the number of employees, recruiters also cited.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California.

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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!”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Brett Crosby: When I was at Google, there were a couple of things. in a funding round. Brett Crosby: A lot of things.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team. That was a completely different view of the same problem. We''re in four major U.S.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

That allows our media buying team an dour content team to make moves, to buy more inventory on the web, and drive more traffic on the website, with the whole goal of bringing in more consumers and acquiring more customers for our clients. The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. -

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Josh Meyers: Slickdeals is the web''s largest deal sharing community. We''re doing what Reddit does for content, and Google does for search. slickdeals deal coupon josh meyers angeles startup growth interview entrepreneur' We caught up with Josh to learn more about the history of Slickdeals, and how he and his team got involved.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). Apps & Software Business Google AOL CrunchBase entrepreneur Free Use People+ Startups TechCrunch' People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.)

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the same way Goldmine drove adoption for NT Serve, SQL Server, and Exchange, Nimble will drive demand for Office 365, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Power BI, and soon even Dynamics and Sales Navigator. There are none of those resellers for Amazon Web Services or Google. That's why Microsoft picked us for this platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Vmware and more. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple.

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JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand. Our job is to help capture some of that demand.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Her response?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than a billion user accounts, all free. business entrepreneur growth profitable startup sustainable' Myspace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon crashed. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. So, you really only have one primary competitor, which is Google. Google is forcefully and clearly telling folks, that they're looking for a certain profile of partner, and quality of traffic.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2010

A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.” That’s about 25 words which I’m certain doesn’t paint much of a picture to the entrepreneurs I know.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. Yahoo made the decision that they could not, or would not be able to make the level of investment required to keep up with Google. Google has an amazing position, and is deeply entrenched, because of consumer embedded behavior and business network effects.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. Traditional software vs. SaaS. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. FourSquare.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money. So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

adult now spends a reported 5 hours and 38 minutes on the web – advances have been made in the way individuals and small businesses operate in the digital world, which will grow even more this year. For the VPN industry specifically, we will see a lot of new providers as the barrier to entry is extremely low, and demand is high.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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APRIL 21, 2010

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Tynt Multimedia “Online tool that allows content sites to control copy-paste activity on their web sites.&# For starters I LOVE the idea for this product. So hot that even Google is getting in on the act.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search. Google out-executed us, so, you know, hats off and theyve been victorious, but a lot of that kind of innovation happens in L.A. Google acquired that and incorporated it. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

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APRIL 10, 2012

what you can see with out scrolling down) probably get well over 85-90% of all of the downloads (much like on Google). Download Apps From the Web. But from the development standpoint its really important to note that price / demand elasticity is a very crucial part of succeeding in any app marketplace.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. Exciting times are ahead for African entrepreneurs! TechZulu caught up with Mr. We found that in Lagos.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 Google says on its website. NAME Facebook.

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

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