Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics. The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Below is a highlight video of the evening.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. I know the team over (Nate Redmond, John Babcock) there really well – great people all. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. VC Financings: 1. 15mm in Series A.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

We focus on the creative content of TV advertising, and we've developed a very powerful, scoring algorithm which we call Ace Scores, which rates advertising effectiveness, and deliver that data to our customers--advertisers and agencies--through a software-as-a-service offering. We're really revolutionizing TV ad creative.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Here’s how a user exports all of their data to a CSV file. The tech world is obsessed with cool features, the investor world is concerned with how big of a return they’ll make if your company is successful. He is both. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP). Our first big institutional round of VC was $16.5 I always say that it takes 18 months to un-train a big company employee from their bad habits when they join a startup. Penny wise, pound foolish. Startups often make this mistake.

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MARCH 30, 2010

The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. I’ll explain in detail below.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. We spoke with the firm's CEO and co-founder, John Hanna : How'd you end up starting the company, and what is FunnelSource all about?

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JUNE 6, 2010

trying to determine one’s math capabilities you might like to ask a detailed analytical problem to solve. trying to determine one’s math capabilities you might like to ask a detailed analytical problem to solve. It’s the only place I could imagine these skills being taught today. Witnessing this can be frustrating.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Thousands of people submit their panels for SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) and only a handful will be selected to present. The best thing of all is that there are no judges! You be the judge and get to vote for who and what panels you want to see during SXSWi. Get your votes in quick because it all end on Friday, August 27 th !

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JUNE 12, 2010

Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. I think you’ll enjoy this TWiVC video because the topics were so wide ranging. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well. By integrating a URI shortener into your site architecture you gain the abilitiy to perform way more than URI shortening. You need to take care of errors yourself.

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