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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

socalTECH

For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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Unbucket: Planning Your Life With Friends, with Elliot Darvick

socalTECH

For example, one of my favorite lists is "Adventures before leaving DC", which was a way for one of our users to organize the things they wanted to do in DC before moving to California. Unbucket can be used by couples, family members, and close friends, replacing something they might have kept in Google documents or maybe just in their heads.

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The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly

Tech Zulu Event

Take, for example, the recent City Council vote to end ride-sharing services and effectively shut down an entire sector of emerging tech startups – putting both their app developers and their enterprising users stranded in no man’s land. But it’s not just the pull of outside influences sapping the talent, as many of L.A.’s

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. For example, to promote Katy Perry’s new film, the agency might buy out all of the images of Katy Perry, as well as the entertainment channel that might not feature the keyword Katy Perry but would display contextually relevant images.