Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. We put products they can purchase in the mix. We put products they can purchase in the mix.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Funding Commerce Social Media 40

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Beacons allows users to share a shopping-enabled TikTok feed, which could be a huge money-maker for creators that often share product recommendations with affiliate links, which give them a commission from sales. Still, depending on the type of creator, the features that each link-in-bio startup offers might matter more than the cost.

Platform 286

Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Traditionally, business software products have been specialized and focused toward a given task, but I see a trend these days to highly functional “all-in-one” business tools. Raising money is difficult, even with the best idea, so don’t assume any entitlement to loans, grants, or seed funding.

Startup 114

Startup Tips Coach Satisfaction 114

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it.

Product 296

Product Course Custom Customer 296

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. In addition, we though we'd connect this to social media, as a forward-facing view for customers. What is MySocialNightLife all about?

Social Media 174

Social Media Seed Funding Startup Design 174

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. Last month, the product launched with $1.2 million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Any funding yet? How does it work?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. We also will be providing more product information and fresh inventory, and pass that information on to consumers.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Are there warning signs? (0:26:44).

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Same goes for television.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are - Chris Dixon , July 5, 2010 Paul Kedrosky recently speculated that there might be seed fund “crash&# looming. Showscase your products and services.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO. What they then immediately start to do, is prototype the product. It's just exploding.

Incubator 208

Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. They introduced Mingly for Gmail , a powerful browser plug in that unifies all your social networks into one address book with the ability to set reminders and send messages across different platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

Web 74

Web Social Network Email Networking 74

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270