socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

We had been working with Fortune 5's, and had done really well in social media, creating micro sites and interactive landing pages, and have a really deep history in marketing. Jason Crilly: We have a background from the big agencies. We had an agency an interactive studio for awhile. Why the strategy of going to the ad networks?

Mobile 249

Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. Heather Wilburn – Founding Member of AdWords Program & Biz Dev Manager for Channel Sales team at Google. The conversation shifts over to the work Heather Wilburn is doing with Google AdWords.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

The presence of Google and Microsoft’s outposts have helped to a certain extent, but Southern California can certainly do better when it comes to retaining — and attracting — talent. People don’t just solely watch TV nowadays; they multitask with a handful of screens. At SBF, a number of good ideas were floated to do just that.

Los Angeles 98

Los Angeles Startup Angel Southern California 98

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. The WWW is the presentation layer.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Google followed immediately and introduced Android. Just one year after their respective launches, Apple and Google exceeded one billion app downloads. It is a good thing that there is an app for everything today — work, social media, games, shopping, travel, photography, and schedule of movie screenings.

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2013

Twitter continues to move into new directions of social media, broadening its offerings. Not to be outdone by innovations from Google and Facebook, Twitter is finally getting into the time currency engagement race for eyeballs with fresh spinoffs. Today, a video partnership with the BBC was announced via (what else?)

Blogging 75

Blogging Entertainment Social Media Screening 75

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Recent alliances in both the emergency responder and warehouse space will allow us to deliver a best-in-class solution to help manage teams, workflow, and efficiency through our wide-screen, large battery, full OS, wearable. DigiSynd manages Disney’s brand presence in the social media space. Utility: Envoy Now. Sold it in 2014.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

Some lucky people received awesome iPhone protectors from Life Proof giving them the power to be active and still capture video without cracking the screen. The next generation will be real time mobile streaming from handheld to handheld, kinda like Google Glasses but with more viewers.”.

Santa Monica 83

Santa Monica Venice Screening Google 83

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” while watching the screen and registering nothing. And this in a nutshell, is what our lives as media consumers has turned into: a constant stream of impatience and auto-pilot interactions with ads. Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. . Crazy right?

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2011

There is a Google map and 3D pins that appear and show the location of events you’re looking for. Second, and more importantly the quality and amount of events that end up in their database, that will ultimately end up splattered across our computer and smartphone screens. Not for SocialVents. First, how many people embrace it.

Sites 89

Sites Screening Google Mobile 89

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

3D Movies, 3D Printing, 3D Televisions, 3DS, our entire screen world is turning 3D and now its time for your mobile screen to get in on the fun. inch 800 x 480-pixel screen that can displaying both 2D and 3D content. Does calling it the “4G” Thrill really mean its faster in the data speeds department?

Software Review 77

Software Review Screening Orange County Mobile 77

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Others including Dell, Acer, and even Google are also releasing Android phones. Any geek, or social media aficionado such as myself will have at least a few app requirements. They are nicely placed, well thought out and my man-sized hands have no problems navigating the screen. The tabs are not tiny like in Twidroid.

Marketing 60

Marketing Software Review Screening Social Media 60

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

The original post and all subsequent video replies can be viewed in one screen.”. Airtime in May secured a round of financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, and Social + Capital. Airtime has also made some changes to the buddy list. Airtime Board.

Screening 64

Screening Google Networking Blogging 64

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. And look at that [points to screen]. I’m not no politician, bruh.

Search Engine Optimization 40

Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. And look at that [points to screen]. I’m not no politician, bruh.

Search Engine Optimization 40

Search Engine Optimization Social Media Technology Council Ideas 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). Here’s a screen shot of my home page on awe.sm. And so forth. No brainer.

Marketing 307

Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

And with this foundation they worked on Plug.DJ’s platform to solve some fundamental problems: The world is increasingly social, but music discovery was still a largely solitary experience. Being able to sift through an over-abundant world of content to find media that really matter to users. Creating an Ecosystem, Not a Service.

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I recently invested in a company in the media & entertainment sector (this will be announced in a couple of months) so I’ve been thinking a lot about how the industry works, why the structure has evolved the way it did, why the company I invested in has had so much success and what this all implies for the future. If so, why?

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Enter Google.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386