Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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. Build your own marketplace platform. Compensate for low profit by aiming for maximum reach. Look for value points to control.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. The post What Is xAI?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

. “We will offer up our platform to every single gaming platform or mobile developer to plug and play… I would consider us… we’re like the Google Admob for live stream.” show just how much demand there is for these types of offerings. and the work with Dr. Disrespect and Odell Beckham Jr.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Content Recommendations in Streaming Services While many streaming platforms suggest content based on viewing history, LLMs have the power to significantly elevate this experience. This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Gil Elbaz , one of the co-founders of Applied Semantics --the firm that developed the technology behind Google's AdSense--has launched a new startup, Factual. According to the Los Angeles-based firm, it is developing an online platform which allows anyone to share and mash open data. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

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. Build your own marketplace platform. Compensate for low profit by aiming for maximum reach. Look for value points to control.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the new data focused startup run by Gil Elbaz , the co-founder of Applied Semantics , which invented Google's AdSense technology, is announcing the investors in the firm this evening. Factual is developing an online platform which allows anyone to share and mash open data. READ MORE>>.

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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? If you look at media, and not just radio, advertisers want to get value. Broadcast isn't like that.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.

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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. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. That's where Deal Current was born.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform.

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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? At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. That was a completely different view of the same problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

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. Build your own marketplace platform. Compensate for low profit by aiming for maximum reach. Look for value points to control.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Joey Flores to learn more about the service, plus hear more about the new on-demand service and the challenges it is trying to help musicians and labels deal with in the age of Internet streaming. But, since it was radio style, on-demand was something we didn't allow. What is Earbits?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

TechZulu had the pleasure again this year to help bring all the New Media Expo (NMX) 2013 Keynotes sessions live. If you missed out on the keynotes live we have all of them for you on demand. This equation paired with her social media mantra, that humans connect with humans not logos, has proved that social media can be monetized.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

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). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And second, that Curate Media will be the corporate brand and organizing unit. At the end of the day, what we do is create demand and pass that in the form of a lead to someone. There's also an extremely important media aspect to the model. About 1/3 of our model is around display or standard media.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

I worked on and helped lead Yahoo's original deal to do Facebook Connect, and also worked with Google on Flickr, where you could log in with Google to that and other parts of Yahoo. I also helped develop FireEagle, which was arguably the first location platform for checkin. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place. Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company. You've got to know best practices in demand generation.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We saw people were exchanging sound bites, sending them around to friends, and using the platform as we had envisioned, which was not just for long form audio, but for actual sound bites.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

From tablets to smart phones to Google Glass , people are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to assist them in managing their lives. The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Social Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Creators can take any course of interest on-demand by purchasing it through our website. How does it work? How many users so far so far?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. Smart startups are already doing it on crowdfunding platforms. Most of the superstar companies we know like Facebook and Google have never had a big-bang rollout.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. The platform works across messengers, starting with the ubiquitous messenger that exists in 3.2Bn devices: SMS. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. DigiSynd manages Disney’s brand presence in the social media space.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

Top media giants Facebook and Alphabet are determined to grow this number with the introduction of various airborne devices designed to bring internet to the far corners of the globe to boost their revenues. 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

OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. Most people now useFacebook- but it is a platform that is changing a lot since it floated on the stock market. TechZulu caught up with Conolly and this is what we learn. What is ProfileTree?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Tumblr – “Microblogging platform&#. Enter P2P lending. Other deals. Blogging has gone through many iterations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

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