socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

GoDaddy , the parent company of Los Angeles premium website hosting service Media Temple , has filed for an IPO--in the process, showing that the company paid $94.48M in cash for Media Temple. Morgan, Citigroup, Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, RBC Capital Markets, KKR Capital Markets, and Stifel. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has finally filed for its long awaited IPO. Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Raine Securities, and JMP Securities.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2014

The sale netted the company $20M, which it will use to fund its U.S. Moviepilot''s web site focuses on film recommendations, film discovery, and the company also helps studios with social media campaigns. The move puts the company''s focused squarely on its Los Angeles operations.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- Is Social Media Killing Email. Presented by the Marketing and Sales Executives Society. Combined, these statistics suggest a net of 190f consumers who are using email more often. Youve seen the headlines: 9 Reasons Why Email is Dead. Only 6aid they were using it less often. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2023

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Metrics Marketing Demand Paramount 101

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins. Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more.

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Networking Media Content Customer 366

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? The advent of social media and real-time interactive feedback via the Internet allows every customer to build and expect a relationship with your business, rather than just touchpoints. Detractors.

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Customer Custom Product Marketing 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Metrics Demand Marketing Paramount 57

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2013

This month, SMCLA and TechZulu are partnering to celebrate “United We Share, a month long celebration of 7th anniversary of the founding of the international Social Media Club and it’s amazing members. Social media has transformed the way books are marketed and sold. Cheese, Etak, ByVideo, Axlon, uWink.

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Social Media eBook .Net Media 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

A Santa Monica-based domain venture, Plan Bee LLC , has selected domain name auction site NameJet--a joint venture of Santa Monica-based Demand Media and Web.com--along with domain marketplace AfterNic--to power initial distribution for its new top level domain,BUILD. Plan Bee is headed by George Minardos. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica .Net News Demand 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Snap said it is planning to sell as many as 230,000,000 shares of its stock, which would net it around $3.68 billion on the public markets. Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , and $16.00 Snap has applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange as SNAP. The IPO would value Snap at nearly $18.5

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Snapchat Venice .Net Pricing 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Supplement this feedback with more formal modern satisfaction surveys, like the Net Promoter Score.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors.

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Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

Berkonomics

JULY 25, 2013

We all know that the world of marketing has turned upside down these past years through the power of the Internet. Although there is still a place for display advertising in this new world, increasingly small businesses are discovering that creating buzz and engaging their audiences through social media are more powerful and cost effective.

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Social Media Advertising .Net Content 179

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. Nick Desai: Jack Steinfeld--which everyone knows as Body by Jake--is the founder of Global Fitness Media.

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Media Pricing Sites Training 168

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

SNAP was already down around 12 percent in pre-market trading on Wednesday, falling from a close of $15.12 Shap continues to lose money, hand over first, reporting it had a net loss of $443.1M on Tuesday to around $13.33 in the three months ended September 30th, on revenues of $207.9M. billion in stock-based compensation expenses.

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Snapchat Venice .Net Report 113

Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The company’s net income in the second quarter alone was more than $5 billion.

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.Net Organization Marketing San Diego 84

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas?

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup .Net 139

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this age of instant and global communication via social media and the Internet, I see more and more evidence that delighted customers should be your top priority.

Customer 114

Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

Tech.Co

JUNE 23, 2015

For a long time though the power to broadcast live to a big audience has been strictly in the hands of TV stations and media conglomerates. In a continual effort to stay ahead of the competition in this market – which by a large stretch is mostly uncharted territory for startups – Hang w/ recently turned to the power of YouTube.

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Social Media .Net Platform Media 87

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? The advent of social media and real-time interactive feedback via the Internet allows every customer to build and expect a relationship with your business, rather than just touchpoints. Detractors.

Customer 100

Customer Custom .Net Competition 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs are often drawn to celebrities, as they believe their startup will benefit from the celeb''s ability to garner media attention, which they hope will result in incremental revenue. In instances when the celebrity''s brand is aligned with the target market, such as Kim Kardashian''s promotion of ShoeDazzle, this approach works.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Hollywood Southern California 193

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. What we saw with CareerArc, was there was already a tremendous amount of investment in the middle of the market, with all of these different services and products that went into taking care of an employee when they were hired until they were let go. What is CareerArc?

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. the funding and market coverage. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week El Segundo-based Wpromote acquired fellow marketing agency Standing Dog, in a deal which brings the company to 260 employees, and continues to grow the company. We have a strong focus on ROI, and the high growth, mid-market companies are the backbone of our growth. So we are looking for clients looking for significant growth.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2015

and also was heavily involved in Hollywood Media, which was acquired by The Times Mirror Company, in addition to a number of other companies. That addressable market is about $107B, including family members. As a marketer, you may only want to reach active and reserve, or you may want to reach the entire U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

People follow influencers on social media to find what they buy, who they vote for, and which social causes they support. Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers. Show your ability to build customer consensus.

Social Media 58

Social Media Customer Custom Entrepreneur 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas?

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Social Media .Net Blogging 103

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

One of my responsibilities at DreamWorks was new media. I took at look at all these performance marketing business here in LA, saw the growth in online advertising, and noticed that one of the common complaints I heard from everyone whether from application creators, mobile marketers, and publishers--was just how long it took to get paid.

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Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133