socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about? Only a dummy would do it again.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Jimmy Hendricks about where Deal Current fits into the industry, and how the company grew out of a need of a client. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 We caught up with Kevin to hear what FindTheBest is all about, and why he decided to get back into the startup game. What's FindTheBest all about? What do people find the most useful about your service? I'm sure you've seen them all over. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. What is Sidebar all about? By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based ManiaTV (www.maniatv.com) is one of the companies, having moved here in 2007 from Denver to take advantage of the local talent. We spoke to the firm's CEO, Peter Hoskins , about how the company is making a business out of original programming for the Internet. You moved here recently, didn't you?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. In addition to we’re taking GumGum and their very cool advertising opportunities to market.

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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. We talked with Jeff about his new startup, and where it fits into the Internet ad market. 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

MARCH 12, 2019

We caught up with founder and CEO Bryan Biniak to hear more about the company and what Connected Travel is doing. Tell me about Connected Travel? It's been fascinating to learn about people's driving behaviors, since that's what 90 percent of the people are using to get around. Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego. It’s been about data.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. They launched this business in 2007, with the concept of building another virtual world and large scale game. Can you talk about how your Internet ad experience might be applied here? Can you talk about what you learned from that experience?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. This lasted from about 2001-2004. To get to know more about how Mike Hirshland thinks make sure to watch a bit of the interview. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

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Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Time will tell. Go Boulder!

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

We spoke with John Mudge , CEO of iBN Sports (www.ibnsports.com), to learn more about the Lake Forest-based company's success in making content pay on the Internet, and how his company's relationship as one of YouTube's Premium Channels is helping with that effort. What is IBN Sports? It's a combination of revenue models.

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Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. First of all, tell us what Fine Art America is all about? print, in about a month metal prints, and greeting cards. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. John Wanamaker.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

How about this one? I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. Advertisers have long known that images cause a reader to hover their gaze, as eye candy is generally more appealing than text. In this particular instance, I was tired and about to sign off for the night.

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Writing Social Network Ideas Entrepreneur 150

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. A very small amount of those sites have had funding, but there are certainly websites about lists.

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Startup Platform Sites Java 195

Frank Addante

AUGUST 6, 2014

THE ‘FIND OUT’ When you’re looking to disrupt any industry—advertising, yogurt, VoIP technology, or whatever—begin with learning everything you can. Something we outlined for Rubicon Project back in 2007 when we were just starting off was to create specific “full-time” jobs vs. “part-time” jobs. Who else is in the market?

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Entrepreneur Startup Santa Monica Ideas 111

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

The base of the site is instead of a recipe swap, it's more about integrating recipes and figuring out the conversations that happen around recipes. The idea is that food transcends just making it in the kitchen, every time you start preparing food, you start having a conversation about something. We're thinking about phone apps.

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Social Network Startup Sites Networking 174

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As the consumer still needs a nudge towards what they may need, increasing online advertising into 13.7 Yet, the old model of branding won’t die without a fight.

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Customer Custom Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Denise Garciano has led PacSun in discovering who is talking about their brand online, who their customers are, and how to genuinely reach out and engage with friends and fans. Emily Goligoski is a Strategic Programs Manager with online publishing company Federated Media’s and writes about arts, culture and design innovation.

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Social Media Social Network Media Writing 75

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

We made lots of assertions about what features we thought people would want, how to price them and how to overcome the objections that people have to managing data in the cloud. Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby).

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Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As the consumer still needs a nudge towards what they may need, increasing online advertising into 13.7 Yet, the old model of branding won’t die without a fight.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. How do you stand out?”.

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Or more specifically, (with its commercial viable surname), we speak about the explosion of “EDM” (electronic dance music) and its dual role both a unifier of the hundreds of sub-genres electronic dance music and simplifier of the not so subtle nuances of these different sounds. Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. The Twitter pest that costs you hard earned money WTF I’m ranting about?

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Companies like RingRevenue offer advertisers the ability to track calls like clicks and thus extend the P&S model to a broader array of products and services. *. You can learn more about his experiences at johngreathouse.com _. — Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet advertising is good. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

We still allowed anyone to use the service but we added text indicating that BuddyHelp was a consumer product in the hopes of making corporate users feel slightly guilty about ripping us off. Advertising – Companies such as, eFax and YouSendIt generate significant revenue by presenting relevant ads to their respective free users.

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