socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Calacanis has reportedly set the launch of his new site, Launch--as well as an associated, TechCrunch50-like event--for February. Calacanis also produced and helped to create the TechCrunch 50 event along with Arrington, until the two had a highly visible split last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) If you’re an app for “normals” targeting middle America it might be good to target the USA Today or if you’re a B2B site you might target industrial rags. It’s the same thing for me as a writer.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. Since my background is in environmental sciences, as well, I couldn't help noticing all of the things that hadn't been addressed properly. Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We're up to around 2 million users who have created 30 million profiles on the site, and it's growing very fast month over month.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

We caught up with Greg Brogger , the firm's CEO, to understand the service and how it might help private investors. If you look at the site, it's comprised principally of individual bulletin boards for private companies. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 Explain how your service works?

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site. Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Increase the production of your content.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 He wanted me to help on the financing side, so we started a company and did a few deals. They can come to the site, and identify where they can qualify for a loan. What's the business model behind your site?

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. George Ruan: Users who sign in to our site see three boxes. Those three boxes are categorized.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. The topic was VC signaling in seed rounds — and how these signals help or hurt your ability to raise money in the next round.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0, The virtual worlds haven't really kept pace on how end user content has driven the growth of the web. You used to be called Areae?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Maybe this meme will help. Im not sure which of these make sense in what case. event I did last fall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

What a sweet feeling it was last week to see the launch of the photo sharing site Pose , whose application targets shoppers of apparel. I hope you’ll excuse me when I do the latter in combination with the former to try and explain how I see macro trends and help you think about the mind of a VC. “And importantly Web 2.0

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. We had millions of users visiting our site on a daily basis. We would quickly build a prototype of a feature, launch it on the site and instantly get feedback and make changes. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , we didnt have a QA team.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web 2.0? Social Networking in Web 2.0: And importantly Web 2.0

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

(though, at the time, companies that we would sell to did not have an “online advertising&# budget… creating budget = not good) Starting Point was one of the first sites on the Internet to offer targeted, track-able advertising. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

And second, they needed to architect and deploy an alternative to our core ad-serving software (which was delivering billions of ads for the Internets top web sites at the time), because DoubleClick was trying to get an injunction to shut us down. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Starting Point was best at searching the search engines and, as a result, we quickly became the 7th most popular site on the Internet. Sure, we lost out on some of the low end business, but in the end, that actually helped the business survive the dot-com bubble burst.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

My experience sometimes helps me avoid making the same mistakes twice, but that requires me to "think" before I jump into the fire. Tell Your Friends Subscribe Filed under: business development , turning 30 Newer Post Older Post Home No Comment Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Chocolate Candy Web 2.0

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Another important web 2.0

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

There is a lack of technology innovation available for website owners and publishers to most effectively monetize their sites through advertising. Tell Your Friends Subscribe Filed under: internet advertising , startup , the rubicon project Newer Post Older Post Home No Comment Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Chocolate Candy Web 2.0

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

People often spend too much time on the methods and lose site of the results. Watch them use it (do they struggle without your help?) Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Dont Think Too Much. Stop Chain-Thinking!" Spending too much time over-thinking things will lead to complication.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Liquidation After developing one of the most popular sites on the Internet and inventing a technology platform that enabled companies to grow their user base and generate revenue through online advertising, I felt it was time to take these experiences to market on a much larger scale. Acquirer 9. Leaving 10. Acquired 12.

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