socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

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Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about? He graduated from U.C.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Social Network Web 100

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. First off, tell us about your network of sites? Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. We're a business that has both advertising revenues and subscription, a blend of both.

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Web Content Mobile Sites 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Recently, an interesting project popped up on the site--a a 2D to 3D conversion project , from the inventor of the original, LCD projector, Gene Dolgoff. What's the next step for your project?

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Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. I didn't think I was contributing or impacting the world in real life.

Startup 177

Startup Mobile Culver City Los Angeles 177

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it.

Study 252

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Industry average click rate for banners is 0.15%.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. What's the idea behind FavRav?

Startup 193

Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. It's unique, in that it encompasses the concept that the kids are empowered to run the community, instead of just hanging out and visiting it like most sites.

Media 150

Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For us, digital media means consumer Internet, online advertising, mobile, gaming, and most importantly--this is Rick and my background--next generation infrastructure to support consumption of this media. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Okay, thats AdSense. Were all connected.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. XXXL t-shirt that I really like to get a descriptive link from this site.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

We first rolled out furniture in a newer market – Washington DC, and we increased ARPU (average revenue per month, per customer) by > 300%, we lowered our CAC (this is because the number of people who came to our site and converted went up) and thus we decreased our payback period. That is how great businesses are built. Efficiency?

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

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. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. Thanks to our advertisers. I hired him at Activision and he is an amazing entrepreneur. by Howard Marks on September 19, 2012.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75