Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, Google executives announced Google+ Pages for brands and companies were on the way. Anticipation of Google opening up the doors to businesses on Google+ has been a long awaited feature-add to their fast growing, and widely used platform. Get started today and build your page.

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Google Entertainment Startup Organization 65

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Like you probably do, many people search for products and services on the weekends and in the evening.

Web 139

Web Startup Sites Design 139

Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. Innovation does not always equal invention.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 156

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google has acquired smart home appliance company, Nest Labs for $3.2 Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Google EnergySense. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. ” Nest and Google are not new to each other.

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Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. What is FEM? My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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Google Content Startup Venice 233

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, Google executives announced Google+ Pages for brands and companies were on the way. Anticipation of Google opening up the doors to businesses on Google+ has been a long awaited feature-add to their fast growing, and widely used platform. Get started today and build your page.

Google 45

Google Entertainment Startup Organization 45

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble , the developer of web-based, contact management software, said Thursday that it has enhanced its software to allow users to link any web page to contact records in the product. Nimble is venture backed by Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, and Dharmesh Sharma, among others. READ MORE>>.

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Web Social Network News Google 219

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2018

Santa Monica-based sales and marketing customer relationship management (CRM) tools developer Nimble is further integrating its tools with partner Microsoft, and its Office 365 software, as well as Google's G Suite, with a new business dashboarding tool.

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Santa Monica Tool Sales Google 100

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based YP , the online business listings provider, said today that it has launched a new dashboard product specifically for business owners. The new product, ypPresence Starter , helps business owners share content with consumers, engage in social media, and more from a central location. The tool runs on iOS and Android.

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Product Yahoo Social Media Mobile 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great this product and technology is, but never gets around to defining the problem (investors call this the “solution looking for a problem” syndrome).

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Ideas Startup Tips Competition 145

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

It's not an uncommon experience, and one which drove Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly to start PageWoo (www.pagewoo.com), a service which is aimed at helping businesses create mobile-friendly landing pages for their advertisements. Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo?

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Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. On every profile page, we have a like button, plus we also have a search box. When people search for a celebrity birthday, or like a profile page, we count that as a vote. That was the genesis of the site.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

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Examples Entrepreneur Technology Resource 131

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

We recently ran into Page Howe , the Chief Engagement Officer for the.LA (www.la) domain name extension, who sat down with us and told us about why he's out making the rounds with community groups and events, promoting the use of.LA Page Howe: LA is a domain name that works perfectly for companies and brands in LA. domain name.

Social Network 100

Social Network Startup Mobile Google 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Like you probably do, many people search for products and services on the weekends and in the evening.

Web 76

Web Startup Sites Design 76

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

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

Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H.

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Google Technical Review News Research 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

Startup 111

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 111

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Their stamp of approval can put the spotlight on any product or service and can open doors to new markets and opportunities. Their influence is strongest in the area of child education, products aimed at children or parents, parenting, and many other family oriented industries. Make your online experience easy and inviting; 4.

IBM 154

IBM IBM Email Research 154

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

This last season, we did over 600 high school football games all over the country, and signed a partnership with Google/YouTube and others. We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. John Mudge: We started working with Google/YouTube last year.

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Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

socalTECH

MAY 13, 2009

Along with the official launch, the firm said that it has rolled out a new revenue sharing agreement--DocCash--which will split Google AdSense revenue with people who upload documents to the site. READ MORE>>.

Rustic Canyon 140

Rustic Canyon Santa Monica Advertising News 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

A digital marketing tag is typically also referred to as a page code, which customers put on their websites when they want to deploy certain digital marketing solutions. As an example, if you're deploying Google Analytics, the way you deploy it is copying and pasting a page code on your website, also referred to as a tag.

Startup 171

Startup Marketing Customer Custom 171

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

What I don’t see often are new solutions that force me to rethink how we work together, or really use AI to make the collaboration process more productive. From the work and feedback, you will learn much on how your solution will fare with customers, before building the product Tap expert sources in other domains for ideas.

Startup 134

Startup Artificial Inteligence Ideas Entrepreneur 134

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you are a technical entrepreneur, you can count on early adopters to be first in line for your product, and they are quick to provide feedback on quality, and suggest even more features. Unfortunately, even today many engineers and product developers believe that marketing is just for advertisements.

Startup 141

Startup Customer Custom Design 141

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. I’m excited to see what Nick can product. So why did Larry need to return?

CTO Hire 309

CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. They were product and cost focused.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Startup Google Yammer 291

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. portfolios. Do so at your peril.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Correspondingly, my traffic increased nearly 3 times over the prior year, page views increased approximately 2.5 The following entries generated the most page views during 2011. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Appeared on Reddit’s front page.

Newsletter 205

Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait. Many entrepreneurs have a PR page in the PowerPoint deck. Again, I reiterate, it IS important. Leave them wanting more.

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Venture Capital Press News Startup 291