socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2014

How did the company start? So, we started to learn some basic HTML and ActionScript, and put together a prototype, which helped us raise our first round of angel funding. There are not many women-led gaming startups, was it difficult to start and get this funded? Lina Chen: Weve always loved media.

Software Review 113

Software Review Startup Mobile HTML 113

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. Things got so bad on one project that we ended up doing split shifts with teams of people programming from 8pm-6am and the next team arriving at 8am. Then the unintended consequences started cropping up. Sound familiar?

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station. So cheer up everybody, this too will pass. What's keeping you up at night?

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). And a great product starts with the founder. Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I’ll make my next posting shorter. I get that.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Cinemagraphs has visual effects which bonds well with the social media, content producers and advertisers have started to recognise its power and should start to actively harness it. The technology behind the effect has since increased to HTML 5 canvas thus increase in commercial tools for that exact purpose.

Web Design 40

Web Design Design Web Technical Review 40

Jason Nazar

MAY 3, 2016

I started Docstoc in my 20’s, made the cover of one of those cliché “20 Under 20” lists, and today I employ an amazing group of 20-somethings. Call me a curmudgeon, but at 34, how I came up seems so different from what this millennial generation expects. Time is the only treasure we start off with in abundance, and can never get back.

Social Media 44

Social Media Tips Startup Mentor 44

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. After the loop starts… …paste this… ID, $key, true); $shorttitle = urlencode(substr(the_title(), 0, 79)); ?> Just a thought. do you need help?

RSS 29

RSS HTML JavaScript Doc 29

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Do this for a couple weeks!

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s certainly food for thought.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210